Halina Goldstein > Recent Status Updates

Took up reading after months and months... and find myself enjoying Woolf's narration and being amazed, once again, at how little we change across centuries. Our environments and circumstances completely transformed. Our personalities, desires, longings, aspirations stay pretty much the same...

I hesitate... I don't want this book to end! A rare experience, for me... And the book is all about ending, in a way, the eternal ending...

The Lightness Of Leaving book is not "just poetry," to me. It's a way of living. Which has now inspired (among other things) my latest article at the Soulivity Magazine, titled Embracing Radical Presence: Transforming Life's Disruptions Into Joy And Freedom
https://soulivity.com/features/embrac...

I just came across this immensely beautiful song, made in co-creation with the Los Cedros cloud forest in Ecuador:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HH_ti...

And then this conversation about the co-creative process: https://emergencemagazine.org/convers...

It brings to mind The Overstory, my (so far) favorite Richard Powers book...
❓Can you recommend any other books with a similar theme?

Happy April Fool's Day!

I'm wondering if there are any books about the Fool as an archetypal way of living...
The only one that comes to mind right now is Quichotte by Salman Rushdie. Loved the book...

Happy April Fool's Day!
I'm wondering if there are any books about the Fool as an archetypical way of living...
The only one that comes to mind right now is Quichotte by Salman Rushdie. Loved the book...

I'm working on the role/voice of the narrator in the novel I've been writing and rewriting for a long time. I'm trying to find my way of doing it, of course, and am also feeling inspired by books with unique (and very different) narrator voices, e.g. The Signature Of All Things, The City And Its Uncertain Walls and Intermezzo.

The Danish public media channel reported a little while ago that there's more people now reading fiction than in the last 30 years. And less interested in non-fiction. To me, at first, this is good news. Or perhaps it depends on what kind of fiction and non-fiction we read more/less of, and why...

Why is Sally Rooney's Intermezzo such a page turner? It's hypnotic somehow...

This is my 2nd read of the book, now with focus on practices entirely. I'm noticing how much more recognition there is since last time of the states the author describes. I don't experience more lucidity in my nighttime dream (yet?), but definitely in my daytime.

3rd or 4th read. Each time as if it was the first time. 🙏

This is one of the 2 books I keep coming back to from time to time. A beautiful mirror!

Delighted to read the brand new poetry ezine from small leaf press. And to see one of my new poems there as well. Ask A Feather aka Let's say yes to New Beginnings! 😊 ❤
See more at https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/11789...

Why I have to live like a poet and the two questions that took me there. The two questions that a recent transition led me to. They might be helpful for you too, whether you are a writer or not

https://www.facebook.com/halinagold/v...

The other day a beautiful conversation unfolded between Eva Andrea, founder of Magical Writers, and me on How To Live Like A Poet. As I pondered my journey with poetry, I realized how much it has been related to self-love, to coming out of hiding and daring to express the poet in me (too). It took me a whole life to learn that. It doesn't have to take so long for you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MI9I...

New pen meets old paper
Shadow meets light
We meet ourselves
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That's my start of the day. 😃 How is yours?
Wishing you inspiring meetings this weekend! ☀️

I came across this quote and it keeps drawing me in a way I cannot quite explain...

"Every peak is a crater. This is the law of volcanoes (...)
No height without depth, without a burning core"
~ Adrienne Rich

Does it speak to you? How?
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Do you enjoy literary magazines? And/or birds? Here's a brand new and wonderfully rich issue of Synkroniciti 🙏
I'm happy and proud that one of my poems gets to fly as part of that big, beautiful and inspiring flock.
Looking forward to contemplating the many stories, poems, essays and art - all inspired by birds!
You can purchase this issue at https://synkroniciti.com/the-magazine/
Enjoy! 😊💗

"𝓘 𝓪𝓶 𝓪 𝓹𝓲𝓮𝓬𝓮 𝓸𝓯 𝓪𝓻𝓽
𝓜𝓪𝓴𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓲𝓽𝓼𝓮𝓵𝓯"
~ "Love Songs"

And, I am you! 😊💗
Whether we make it The Thing, or we make it a thing among others, we are all artists.

I am immensely glad and honored to hear that one of my poems will be part of the Synkroniciti Magazine's September issue. 🙏 😊💗
Until then, enjoy this beautiful, beautiful quote by E.E.Cummings, one of my all time favorite poets:
https://synkroniciti.com/quote-for-to...

This book is responsible for me not getting enough sleep. 😀 It surprises me how much I enjoy it. Will write a review later, but just know....

Lonely To Home is available for free on Amazon but only today!
https://amzn.to/2XvBw3z

Some of my favorite books about writing are already on this list, and that makes me curious to see the rest!
Thank you Authors Publish! 😊💗
https://authorspublish.com/25-books-t...

Some of my favorite books about writing are already on this list, and that makes me curious to see the rest!
Thank you Authors Publish! 😊💗
https://authorspublish.com/25-books-t...

I'm excited about the groups that are here and looking forward to connect with fellow readers and writers, especially (but not exclusively) with interest in (non denominational) spirituality. Are there any (active) groups you'd recommend?
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