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Where Many Rivers Meet

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By David Whyte — 1990

This is David Whyte’s second book of poetry, now in its 6th printing.

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The causes for the Founder's Blues are easy to identify. Founders experience immense pressure when starting and attempting to build their own businesses.

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Crazy Good: How Mental Illnesses Help Entrepreneurs Thrive

Michael A. Freeman had long noticed that entrepreneurs seem inclined to have mental health issues. Freeman and California-Berkeley psychology professor Sheri Johnson decided to take a deeper look at the issue.

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Why Entrepreneurs Need To Talk About Their Mental Health

72% of entrepreneurs are directly or indirectly affected by mental health issues compared to just 48% of non entrepreneurs.

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The Slow Joy of Jane Hirshfield’s Ledger

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Colleen Morton Busch
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Jane Hirshfield says environmental concerns began creeping into her poetry as early as her 1988 collection “Of Gravity & Angels,” when she was composing “poems of shared-fate awareness, and poems of the relationship of the biological and human worlds which don’t put human well-being above...

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Jessica Zack
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Poet Jane Hirshfield on the Mystery of Existence

Writer Kim Rosen raises questions about Zen, openness, and the “desperation” of the creative process.

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“…and when two people have loved each other see how it is like a scar between their bodies, stronger, darker, and proud…”

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In verse called "radiant and passionate" by the New York Times, Jane Hirshfield's four collections of poetry articulate the interconnection of human and natural worlds. Tune in for this reading before an audience at UC Santa Barbara.

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Full lecture title: "A Branch of Yellow Leaves: Buddhism, the World and Poetry"

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Poet Jane Hirshfield on her "Unearned Luck," her Poetry and a 360-Degree Life

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