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Zine Review: “Processes: A Meditation” by Terra Olvr

Posted by strange on February 6, 2019
Zine Review: “Processes: A Meditation” by Terra Olvr

There are many different ways to meditate that have been proven to calm your anxiety, depression or other mind obstacles, and to ground you. Some people like guided ones, where a person is speaking for the entire time and tells them what to do or visualize. Others enjoy practicing in silence, and simply letting the mind journey and wander to wherever it needs to explore. “Processes: A Meditation,” a zine by Terra Olvr (she/they) that I bought at their San Francisco Zine Fest table in 2018, is an inbetween option.

For each set of pages, there’s one philosophical sentence on the right-hand page that seems to both acknowledge daily mistakes and struggles, and to encourage taking healthier choices of self-love. And on the left-hand page, there’s a drawing representing what it would look like in a meditative physical form or “how the verses live in the body,” said Olvr.

Posted in: Media Reviews, Shannen | Tagged: #thestrangeisbeautiful, an old blue light, and still to sleep, lgbtq author, lgbtq poet, meditation zine, poc author, poc poet, processes: a meditation, recenter press, san francisco zine fest, sf zine fest, shannen roberts, terra olvr, the strange is beautiful, vipassana, zines

“And Through Her Eyes She is Whole” – Short Story by Georgia St. Jones

Posted by strange on January 24, 2018
"And Through Her Eyes She is Whole" - Short Story by Georgia St. Jones

Grass blades stick into her skin as she lay on her back, completely bare. She sinks into the ground beneath her and can feel the Earth move in sync with her own breathing. Her eyes open to see the infinite blue above and stares into the eyes of melancholy while remembering the times she’s been here before.

Posted in: Georgia St. Jones | Tagged: black author, creative writing, female black author, inner strength, love, poc author, self care, short story, strength, the strange is beautiful, woc author

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