Friends & Allies
Julie Akeret, filmmaker, cultural activist
Bauhan Publishing, Independent Book Publishers
Barbara Bash, artist, writer, teacher, calligrapher
Susan Bonthron, book-artist, workshop leader
Wendy Erd, poet and storyteller
Jan Kilpatrick, textile artist, teacher
Tine Kindermann, artist, singer
Wendy Erd, poet and storyteller
Phyllis Labanowksi, artist, graphic designer, activist
Pat Musick, artist, writer
Verandah Porche, poet, workshop leader
Sarah Rabkin, writer, teacher, editor
Arthur Strimling, director, writer
Davis TeSelle, artist
Jane Winter, artist
Jan Kilpatrick and Christian on the Summer Isles, Scotland.
Laetitia Bermejo, illustrator of The Tortoise Diaries
Booklist
Some favorite books on creativity & slowing down:
David Abram: The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-than-Human World (Random House, Inc. 1996).
Barbara Bash: True Nature: An Illustrated Journal of Four Seasons in Solitude (Shambhala, 2004).
Nicholas Carr: The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains (W.W. Norton & Co., 2010).
Jay Griffiths: A Sideways Look at Time (Penguin Putnam, 1999).
Robert Grudin: Time and the Art of Living (Ticknor & Fields, 1982).
Matthieu Ricard: Happiness: A Guide to Life’s Most Important Skill (Little, Brown & Co. 2003).
Adrienne Rich: What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics (W.W. Norton & Co., 1993).
Rick Rubin, with Neil Strauss: The Creative Act: A Way of Being (Canongate Books, 2025).
Rebecca Solnit: Wanderlust: A History of Walking (Penguin Putnam, 2000).
Lin Yutang: The Importance of Living (Harper-Collins, 1937, 1998).
Some favorite books on the art of listening:
Dennis O’Driscoll: Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney (Faber & Faber, 2008).
Warren Lehrer & Judith Sloan: Crossing the Boulevard: Strangers, Neighbors, Aliens in a New America (W.W. Norton & Co., 2003).
Jacques Lusseyran: And There Was Light (Parabola Books, 1987).
W.A. Mathieu: The Listening Book: Discovering your Own Music (Shambhala, 2011).