“You don’t have anything
if you don’t have the stories.”
—Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony
“A poem is not a puzzle, even if it’s puzzling at first. Instead, it’s a highly selected parcel or capsule of language meant to burst into your psyche and change you in some way. Poetry is the life blood of our language, and it’s meant for everyone, not just academics or young people in school. Poetry is in a word: consciousness.” —Cathryn Hankla
Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack in everything
That’s how the light gets in.
—Leonard Cohen (September 21, 1934 – November 10, 2016)
“Like a bird on the wire,
Like a drunk in a midnight choir
I have tried in my way to be free.” —Leonard Cohen
Tom Joad, from John Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath:



Gratitude List:
1. Regrouping
2. Grounding
3. Doors opening
4. Elements
5. Bats

May we walk in Beauty!

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