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by Dennis RayJanuary 2, 2019

Local Asheville Author Inspires Others to Connect with Nature by Hosting Impactful Workshop and Releasing Fifth Book

Award-winning author and business/life coach, Angie Mattson Stegall is presenting a 3-hour workshop, NOTES FROM NATURE, for business owners and professionals on Saturday, January 12, 2019, to teach and convey the concepts in her latest book Notes from Nature: Gentle Instructions for Nurturing Your Relationship with the Natural World. Participants will learn to tune to […]

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Health/Nutrition

by Dennis RayDecember 10, 2018December 10, 2018

The Importance of Regular Dental Checks

There are many people who are very self conscious about their general health. In fact, they ensure they live a totally healthy lifestyle and have regular health checks to ensure there are no issues. However, many of these same people fail to pay as much attention to their dental health despite the fact that this […]

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Music

by Dennis RayNovember 9, 2017

Mipso comes Asheville on Nov 18 at The Orange Peel

Currently on East Coast Campfire Caravan Tour Featuring MIPSO | THE BROTHERS COMATOSE | THE LIL SMOKIES Recently featured by Rolling Stone as an “Artist You Need to Know,” indie-Americana band Mipso releases the official video for the title track from their latest album release, Coming Down The Mountain. To create the video, Mipso teamed up with acclaimed multi-media artist […]

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Bill Walz — Philosophy

by Dennis RayMarch 1, 2017March 1, 2017

CONSCIOUSNESS EXPANSION AND CONTRACTION by Bill Walz

“The brain speaks through words; the heart in the glance of the eyes; and the soul through a radiance that charges the atmosphere, magnetizing all.” — Hazrat Inayat Khan (founder of The Sufi Order in the West in 1914) Sometimes, as a way to cut through all intellectualization, I say: “At its most basic, I […]

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by Dennis RayDecember 3, 2016December 3, 2016

‘Manchester By The Sea’ (2016) A fantastic family drama

Short Take: A quiet janitor returns to his hometown when he is awarded guardianship of his teenage nephew. It’s a family drama like none you’ve ever seen before. REEL TAKE: Manchester By The Sea has been a hotly anticipated film by many a film critic, (myself included) since its warm reception at The Sundance […]

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Bill Walz — Philosophy

by Dennis RayNovember 9, 2016November 9, 2016

WHAT IS THIS? Zen thoughts by bill walz

WHAT IS THIS? By Bill Walz “What is this?” – the Sixth Patriarch, Huineng (638–713 C.E.) The practice is very simple. Whether you are walking, standing, sitting, or lying down, you ask repeatedly, What is this? What is this? You have to be careful not to slip into intellectual inquiry, for you are not looking for […]

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by Dennis RayAugust 6, 2016August 6, 2016

ZEN AND THE ART OF LIFE

By Bill Walz “The arts of Zen are not intended for utilitarian purposes or for purely aesthetic enjoyment, but are meant to train the mind, indeed, to bring it in contact with ultimate reality.” – D. T. Suzuki Zen and the art of (fill in the blank)” has become a familiar phrase, […]

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Artful Living

by Dennis RaySeptember 29, 2015

A Wave on the Ocean

by Bill Walz – A wave on the ocean has a beginning and an end, a birth and a death. But the wave is empty. The wave is full of water, but it is empty of a separate self. A wave is a form which has been made possible thanks to the existence of wind […]

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Artful Living

by Dennis RayJuly 1, 2015

Needing Nothing

by Bill Walz “What, at this moment, is lacking?” ~ Linji (9th Century – Chinese) One of our dogs and I had been playing in a grassy field, she chasing and returning a ball until she was worn out with the joy of it, and then she lay down in the grass. I sat down […]

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Local Asheville Author Inspires Others to Connect with Nature by Hosting Impactful Workshop and Releasing Fifth Book

The Importance of Regular Dental Checks

Mipso comes Asheville on Nov 18 at The Orange Peel

CONSCIOUSNESS EXPANSION AND CONTRACTION by Bill Walz

‘Manchester By The Sea’ (2016) A fantastic family drama

WHAT IS THIS? Zen thoughts by bill walz

ZEN AND THE ART OF LIFE

A Wave on the Ocean

Needing Nothing

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