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As a psych major and a religion minor at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Jim Moreno found himself drawn to the religions of East and South Asia. He had visited those temples in Vietnam, Hong Kong, and Japan during his Navy enlistment. But then, in the religion department of the university, he discovered Professor Taylor Scott and his class Music, Eroticism, and Madness. The retired Episcopalian priest was a dynamic, radical, irreverent, source of thunder and lightning that rained in the classroom. At 25 years of age, a university junior, Moreno had started to understand the fire inside that directed social justice activist choices in his life. Especially after his service in Vietnam’s southern rivers. This three hour class for beginning or seasoned poets will explore the path that leads to finding our eclectic mystic, needing no middleman or middlewoman to find your truth, spirituality, and spoken words that can resonate with your religion or maybe not. Our vehicle on Sunday, August 28 will be the poetry of Joy Harjo, Muriel Rukeyser, Alice Walker, Thich Nhat, Hahn, Daniel Berrigan, and three poetry anthologies. Pablo Neruda reminded that as poets our job is to comfort the disturbed and to disturb the comfortable. Another poet promised that when we write spontaneous, first thought, best thought poetry we find out who we are and who we’re not. This class will be taught in two 90-minute segments divided into quotes, film clips, poems, and stories from Jim Moreno’s experience in writing, teaching, and performing life. Actual composing and reading of your compositions then follows. Beginning and seasoned participants are welcomed to the Container of respect and safety that are the foundation of Moreno’s classes. If you are looking for a critique group, this is not the class for you. This is a write from your heart poem-making class. Click here to learn more & register for the class!

Third Sunday Craft is a monthly gathering of creative writers that fosters support, inspiration, and community. More than craft classes, Third Sunday Craft will help you construct and sustain a writing practice. New focus topics* for each session will challenge writers to explore and expand their craft. Generative writing prompts will encourage you to grow and learn in exciting new ways. Sharing your work within a safe, supportive community will help you discover and strengthen your voice. Finally, with the goal of fostering supportive accountability, each session will conclude with a writer’s intentions for the month. Come check out Third Sunday Craft! August’s Focus: August, Desire & Resistance: Robert Olen Butler says we must find our character’s ‘white hot center,’ and write from that space. Why must our characters want things? What happens when they don’t? Why do writers put up roadblocks (physical, psychological, spiritual) to create a sense of conflict and tension in stories?

Nearly three decades of federal litigation have led up to the court order that forced R.J. Donovan correctional staff to use body-worn cameras — a first for California prisons. But while corrections officials say they’re committed to reform, they’re appealing the court’s order.

Fourth Friday Jazz Series featuring Christopher Hollyday on saxophone, Rob Thorsen on bass and Melonie Grinell on piano. They will be performing Rhythm in a Riff; The Music of Billy Eckstine. Friday, August 26. Reception 7-8 p.m.; Concert 8-9:15 p.m..$22/M; $25/NM; Door, $30/person. To register visit: www.ljcommunitycenter.org/ffjs La Jolla Community Center on Facebook + Instagram

Made famous on TikTok, "if i were a fish" is a silly, fun ode to self-acceptance and self-confidence from the musician corook.

Three people were killed and five were wounded in a shooting at an annual motorcycle rally in a New Mexico town late Saturday afternoon, the mayor said.

George Michael Todd — a generous, "gentle giant" — died of sudden cardiac death. He served in Afghanistan and returned home with PTSD. In 2017 he released an album called Combat Medicine.

There was something revelatory about the way the HBO show Somebody Somewhere gently hold the spiritual identity of one of its characters. It wasn't a punchline.

To prevent flooding, communities often raise levees next to rivers higher and higher. Now, a new approach is about backing off, moving levees away from rivers to create floodplains.

In 2004, a U.S. general told the family of an Iraqi interpreter that insurgents killed their brother. The truth was more painful: He was mistakenly killed by Americans he had risked his life to help.