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Stories, poetry, and art teach us to slow down, to listen, and to pay attention, awakening our hearts to ourselves and one another. Every quarter, a new issue of Ruminate is delivered to your mailbox, helping you nourish and reaffirm your creative and spiritual intentions.
Slow Down
No scrolling, skimming, or hustling: unplug, breathe, turn the page.
Read Deeply
Encounter art, poetry, and stories hand-picked to inspire and nourish.
Live Awake
Heart-awakening art helps us live more fully awake to our selves and our world.
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Order Issue 52What readers are saying about Ruminate
Wonderful writing, images, and soul. I feel as comfortable in the pages of this journal as in my own heart.
— Colby B.
The poems in Ruminate nourish me personally and creatively. They are brimming with spirit and unvarnished beauty.
— John S.
Ruminate is a lovely publication that fills a real niche. It's like sinking into a big sigh when I open an issue!
— Cathy B.
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Everyone Else's Emergency
I don’t know which lens to wear to handle the news that the world, as I know it, might be ending in my lifetime. It’s not real, I think, I hope, because it doesn’t seem to be happening to me.
The Cosmic Ellipsis (or How I Chose to Go to Seminary)
It is a beautiful enigma. When, in the presence of a mountain, we must endure its puzzle. It is something greater than us, and everything that is greater than us invites us to rise.
From Where Does the Light Come?
Ok, so this is not from “real life.” It is, I know, biologically impossible for my father and my son to be five years old at the same time. But I imagine it is happening somewhere else, on some other plane.On Sale Now
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