Substacks recommended by jacob seiryo gendelman

Recommended by jacob seiryo gendelman

Weekly reflections on my art practice + existence, along with a weekly product recommendation to reduce plastic + carbon footprints. (Unpaid endorsements only.)

A great friend of mine and more importantly, an artist exploring the edges of material use and the boundary between use, re-use, waste, feeling, and how we navigate all three as our lives. Well worth a read and follow!

- jacob seiryo gendelman

Unanswered Question

By James Ford

Engaging the spiritual life today with Zen teacher and Unitarian Universalist minister James Ishmael Ford. James' passions include Zen Buddhism, mystical religion, especially Christian, and those lives growing authentic and deep between the traditions.

James Ford's writing on spiritual practice and life never disappoints — a lifetime of practice and teaching laid out like bread crumbs. Always good stuff, always worth reading. Always inspiring me to push just a little deeper, pay just a little but more attention.

- jacob seiryo gendelman

Letters from Kaishin

By Kaishin Victory Matsui

Reflections on Zen practice, from a Zen priest living at Sōshinji, Ancestral Heart Temple

Unmapped Storylands with Elif Shafak

Stories, anecdotes, wise proverbs and foolish thoughts, literary musings, insights and conversations centred around my personal, unpublished notebooks

Zen Peacemakers

Our mission is to realize our oneness and relieve suffering through contemplative social action, based on our Three Tenets: Not-knowing, Bearing Witness, and Loving Actions.

Living Dharma

By Vanessa Zuisei Goddard

Weaving ideas about life and the Buddhist path

StoryWorlds with Junot Díaz

By Junot Díaz

“So howled out for the world to give him a name. The indark answered with wind.” ― Samuel R. Delany, Dhalgren :: Reflections on fiction and worldbuilding, on diasporas and elsewheres.

Poetry Unbound

By Pádraig Ó Tuama

Open your world with poetry

Story Club with George Saunders

A place to explore the way the short story works.

Adjacent Possible

By Steven Johnson

A newsletter from author Steven Johnson exploring where good ideas come from—and how to keep them from turning against us.

Spark Zen

By Rev. Shōren Heather

Spark Zen is for introspective, iconoclastic thinkers interested in Zen/Buddhism; hosted by a Zen priest who lived as a monk for seven years.

Ty Burr's Watch List

Ty Burr's Watch List has moved off Substack. To subscribe, go to www.tyburrswatchlist.com

Ty is a terrific writer and insanely knowledgeable-about film specifically but also about culture (both lower-case and capital C) broadly. You cannot go wrong with the Watch List.

- jacob seiryo gendelman

The Beinart Notebook

By Peter Beinart

A conversation about American foreign policy, Palestinian freedom and the Jewish people.

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Recommended by jacob seiryo gendelman