Zen Guitar: Welcome to the Dojo, Please Leave the Door Open

By Lisa King | Thursday, August 21 “Return to the beginning. Enter by form. Clean your dojo. As you have every day, tie on the white belt and empty your cup. Pick up your guitar, tune, then play.” – Philip Toshio Sudo Zen Guitar was a book gifted to me by a close friend sometime…

Maddy Kettle Book 1: The Adventure of the Thimblewitch

  By Lisa King | Wednesday, August 20 The hero’s journey is a timeless tale. Whether Luke Skywalker is helping to defeat the Galactic Empire, or Jason is questing for the Golden Fleece, it is ingrained into our very spirit to adventure, and face our biggest fears. Maddy Kettle is a tough-as-nails young girl, who loves…

Shroom: Mind-Bendingly Good Recipes for Cultivated and Wild Mushrooms

  By Lisa King | Monday, August 19 Private chef, author, and cooking teacher Becky Selengut has a passion for colorful fungi. When she is not wandering through the woods searching for the perfect wild chanterelle, she’s at her post as a professor in the culinary/nutrition department at Bastyr University. She had great success with IACP book award finalist Good…

The Book of Life: An Enchanted Tapestry of Alchemical Magic

By Lisa King | Sunday, August 17 In my life, Alchemy is a personal passion.  It is one of the least understood of the Esoteric Arts, and its rich and sometimes arcane symbolism is simultaneously confusing and yet suddenly transparent to the serious Initiate. Carl Jung, a longtime scholar of the language of birds, as the Art is often…

The Antigone Poems: A Gothic Vision of Blood, Bone, and Marrow

  By Lisa King | Thursday, August 7, 2014 Some poetry simply must be read at night. The works of Baudelaire, Rimbaud, and Shelley are best consumed by candle light, while sipping Datura-steeped red wine in a gothic parlour. The same atmosphere best suits The Antigone Poems, the collaborative effort of Canadian duo Marie Slaight, author and founder…