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3 Pieces of Rumi Poetry Art for Your Home
This being human is a guest house.Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness,some momentary awareness comesas an unexpected visitor. Rumi Much like Rumi’s poem The Guest House, your actual house is like a…
Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl by Andrea Lawlor: A Book Recommendation
Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl by Andrea Lawlor Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl by Andrea Lawlor is a retelling of Virginia Woolf’s Orlando. Orlando, a feminist classic, follows a gender-shifting poet….
The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman: A Book Recommendation
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Harold and Maude by Colin Higgins: A Book Recommendation
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