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Take it all in
Relentless
Rainer Maria Rilke
Put your ear down close to your soul and listen ha...
The reality is that introversion inherently has no...
I’m not anti-social; I’m pro-solitude. Beth Buelow
If you don’t become the ocean, you’ll be seasick e...
Friday
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In Several Colors, by Jane Kenyon
The Cafe of Mistaken Orders
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Michael Laskey Poem
Lifesaving Poems
Marin Sorescu’s Poem ‘With Only One Life’
Mandy Coe Poem: Let's Celebrate
Naomi Shihab Nye Poem: The Art of Disappearing
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Jack Johnson Song Banana Pancakes
Let your Subject Find You
Birthday Card
Twins
A man using a leaf blower on his property was alle...
Camus
Some people think life is in gluttony, others in t...
“Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifica...
I want to know you’re there, but I want to be alo...
State scrambles to secure Rhode Island’s Independe...
“It’s a pretty startling phenomenon here in the Un...
Fernando Botero, Artist
all of life is in a continuous cycle of giving and...
places of false belonging grant us conditional mem...
“as the Persian poet Hafiz warns, “Don’t surrender...
I have fights with ghosts! Ghosts are people dead ...
Fernando Botero, Colombian artist of rotund and wh...
America Betrays Its Children Again
A couple was sick of mowing. Now their wildflowers...
New Words
Later I paint a little bit. There's tranquility an...
“A man's allowed to make lots of small mistakes, a...
Scrabble
He shaped the world. He did things to the world.
The books are to remind us what asses and fools we...
But you can’t make people listen. They have to com...
With school turning out more runners, jumpers, rac...
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of ...
Every student deserves access to books that reflec...
Interview The trauma doctor: Gabor Maté on happine...
A storyteller should be invisible, as far as I’m c...
Hermann Hesse: Home is within you, or home is nowh...
Dream
Pruning and Trimming
Is there a connection between bipolar disorder and...
Family Trait: empty promises
Camping
that crucial sense of voice
Sam Shepard Interview
“I write for the same reason I breathe - because i...
“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread w...
Hippocrates
My therapist once said, "People don't abandon peop...
Women with clean houses do not have finished books...
For to know a man's library is, in some measure, t...
Literature is a process of producing beautiful, we...
An artist is a sort of emotional or spiritual hist...
The books a writer reads are so important; they fo...
There is no beauty without some strangeness.
I'm Baking Six Loaves of Sourdough Bread
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Robot Love
Ask Me
Men versus Women
Giggle Water
Oskar Schlemmer costumes for the Triadic Ballet sc...
Dwell
Booster Shot
When I was 16, I got pulled over on a rural back r...
If rain is anger let it rip, flood, uproot and drown.
Ethnic Fakes
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Bosom
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Passion creates, addiction consumes. ― Gabor Maté
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Silver with Blue Eyes
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Monday, September 18, 2023
You need to reach down and touch the thing that’s boiling inside of you and make it somehow useful.
Audre Lorde
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