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Stop and Hear the Music
I’d like to share a story with you today. It’s a story with a message I find very moving and powerful. By most measures, he was nondescript: a youngish white man in blue jeans, a long-sleeved T-shirt and… Continue reading
Latest update on our dear friend Karen
Our dear friend Karen has started treatment, and I know some of you may be wondering how it is going for her. With her permission, I am sharing Karen’s latest email update. I… Continue reading
A Gift For #NationalPoetryDay
A Gift Just when you seem to yourself nothing but a flimsy web of questions, you are given the questions of others to hold in the emptiness of your hands, songbird eggs that… Continue reading
Poetry Friday
Mornings at Blackwater For years, every morning, I drank from Blackwater Pond. It was flavored with oak leaves and also, no doubt, the feet of ducks. And always it assuaged me from the… Continue reading
On Owning Our Stories
I had an unsettling experience last weekend in which I had to leave an event I was attending because I felt very uncomfortable. The reason why I left was something quite personal and… Continue reading
Poetry Friday
The she inside The I I see the you that’s me The we we are the ones we’ll be The she inside the shadow deep Where truth reside and dare not speak Who… Continue reading
