Kirjahaku

If you are wondering why I chose to call my book: STORYTELLING FOR THE REVOLUTION: The Ultimate Uprising of Insight, Wisdom, and Love - a title some people might think is incendiary, inflated, or overly dramatic, here's why: We need a revolution. We do. But the revolution I'm inviting you to join is not a political one. It has nothing to do with a change of government, laws, or social structures. It has to do with a change of mind and a change of heart and a change in the way we communicate with each other.It doesn't take a genius to recognize that the collective narrative occupying the airways these days is a dark one - not all that surprising when you consider the "if it bleeds, it leads" mindset of the media: But bad news is not the only thing worth reporting. Indeed, there is another kind of story that also needs to be communicated - one that rarely makes it to the evening news. And that story is revolutionary - or could be - the story of how each and every one of us can be a broadcast station of insight, wisdom, and love. That's what STORYTELLING FOR THE REVOLUTION is about - a grassroots Field Guide for anyone wanting to become a positive force for change.

Unspoken Word: Love Longing & Letting Go is a "best of" collection of Mitch Ditkoff's poetry - his fourth book in an ongoing series. His poems are a kind of inner tuning fork, giving voice to the human quest for the divine, as well as the existential gap between our highest aspirations and the seeming mundane realities of daily life. Inspired by the poetry of Rumi, Hafiz, Kabir, and Rilke, Ditkoff's expressions of the heart serve as a bridge between two worlds - the timeless world of ecstatic experience and the all-too-common 9 to 5. Human beings tend to live their lives between these two polls, often gravitating to one over the other. What Ditkoff attempts to do in his poetry is honor all of it. To him, it's all holy, all sacred, all divine - even if it doesn't always seem that way. As he notes in The Only Pilgrimage Required: "Here's a little secret: every breath you take is a prayer, 22,000 times a day it rises, unannounced, then returns to who knows where, you do not need to kneel, you do not need to speak, and the only pilgrimage required is the one from head to heart, the one all people seek."