A meeting place for medicine, art, and the stories that connect us.
Medicine and creativity in conversation.
The Bountiful Path is for readers who believe how we live matters as much as how long we live. New writing arrives regularly. Companion practices guide the year's turning. Conversations through Radio Maine bring in artists, healers, and thinkers. Gatherings happen on the coast and in the studio.
Selected essays. Read on Substack, or visit the archive for earlier work.
Essay
A spring gathering, a virtual book circle, and the relationships we do and do not plan.
Some relationships are planted carefully. Others arrive like daffodils in the woods.Read on Substack →
Books on the Boat
Color, catacombs, and the hidden chambers beneath a spring in Maine.
Color was labor. It was trade. It was secrecy. It was status.Read on Substack →
Essay
On Easter, Passover, Eid, and what a one-year-old already knows about new life.
Some things complete themselves before anyone thinks to arrange them.Read on Substack →
Four ways into The Bountiful Path beyond the writing.
“How we live matters as much as how long we live.”
Dr. Lisa Belisle
Dr. Lisa Belisle is a physician, writer, and host of Radio Maine. The Bountiful Path grew from clinical work and a long interest in art and story.
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