Leaping Clear

Leaping Clear is an online magazine of art and literature by accomplished artists whose work is informed by meditative awareness and contemplative insight.

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Leaping Clear celebrates Christy Rupp's book launch of Noisy Autumn! Check out more details at her publication page. https://t.co/hgmYApa9bM

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The fifth-anniversary issue of Leaping Clear has been released! We invite you to enjoy the many manifestations of visual art, music, and writing. As the season turns with the equinox, linger with Leaping Clear from time to time this fall.

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Leaping Clear's 5th Anniversary Issue will be released September 22nd! Here's a preview featuring Lorraine Capparell's "Roller."

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Vivian Trutzl's poem has a quality of lightheartedness about so many difficulties, a sweet reminder to keep an open heart/mind.
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Elvira Piedra captures, in her photographs of flowers, an almost aching quality of beauty that feels like an exploration of the cycle of life. These are extraordinary pieces of art.
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David Felix's interdisciplinary creative process requires the alignment of mind and body locked in an unfolding process, the clearing of preconceptions, and the readiness to tread a path unrecognized.
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If you have the time to go to Roseminna’s website or to watch her playing on YouTube, you will experience how she embodies the music. In Limbic Hymnal she entwines her voice with the violin; it is eerie, gripping, passionate, and beautiful.
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Susan Harvey's practice of contemplation through physical labor shines as the intersection of work and prayer influence her writing.
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Each piece of Virginia Ray’s work invites / engages the imagination, giving the viewer the opportunity to join in, to continue the tale that began long before Virginia picked up the pieces and rebirthed them in a whole new life.
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The ability of Geraldine DeLuca to hear, appreciate, learn, and give to the reader the very deep kindness, humor, and tenderness of Vinny Ferraro’s experience and teaching is simply a treasure.
https://t.co/sYWbkUOZEt

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Nilima Sikhrakar's "Duality" is experimenting with
figurative forms along with symbols as metaphoric expressions
pertaining to her life and surroundings.
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As summer draws on, Patty Somlo’s poignant image of hiking, mental health, and meditation reminds us that the movement of our bodies and the stillness of our minds are ongoing, imperfect, and beautiful practices of living.
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Fifty-two years ago, Apollo-11
returned home from the moon! Bob Hoeppner's use of the moon in his poem, "Intention,"
cleverly brings depth to his final stanza.
https://t.co/5CaSvPPKTs

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Carol Tyx catches the blur of perception between movement and stillness in this sensitive poetic glance.
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Today is World Listening Day! Larry Thacker's poetry emphasizes the importance of listening as a form of meditation and discipline.
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The eerie, ethereal atmosphere of Rosalyn Driscoll’s sculptural art draws on the dichotomy and overlap of our sensory experiences of tactility and imagination.
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As summer persists, Gloria Matuszewski's oil on canvas paintings gives a fresh perspective with calm brushstrokes and elegant lines.
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Our July Showcase opens with Kevin Griffin’s “Mountain Stream”. Griffin’s music invites us into the spontaneity of nature and thought, bringing the gentleness, rolling, and laughing of play into musical form.
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As we usher in July, Erica Steinweg's poem "Fading" combines the delight of summer blossoms and bumbling bees.
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Yasmin Kloth’s poem, “Footfall,” draws relationships between human footsteps and bullfrogs sprouting wings.
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