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Category: Life Lessons

Finding time -by Anne Lamott from Sunset.com

Lamott’s books include Operating Instructions and Traveling Mercies. Her new novel, Imperfect Birds (Riverhead Books; $26), will be published this … More

Anne Lamott, Creativity, Life Lessons, Writing

Poetry Exhaustion

    If you write poetry (and I assume that if you do, you are also actively engaged in reading … More

Being a Poet, Creativity, difficulty with poetry, finding it hard to read poetry, Life Lessons, losing interest in poetry, obscurity, Poetry, Poetry Exhaustion, Reading Poetry, when poetry leaves you, Writing, Writing Poems, Writing Poetry

Love Listen -A new poem by Ann Gray

Love Listen Let’s love, listen, take time when time is all we have. Let’s be unafraid to be kind, learn … More

Ann Gray, Life Lessons, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Presence

Advice from the dying -by Oliver Burkeman in The Guardian

Photo: Andy Oliver In May 2005, the chairman and chief executive of the accountancy giantKPMG was told he had about 100 … More

Dying, Life Lessons, Presence, Suffering

Why Andrew Motion is my hero

Andrew Motion is my hero because he set up the Poetry Archive with Richard Carrington. He has nothing left to prove. As … More

Andrew Motion, Poetry, Poets, Poets in Schools, Writers in Schools

Smile! You’ve got cancer by Barbara Ehrenreich from The Guardian

via guardian.co.uk   A marvellous piece from the Guardian weekend pages a couple of years ago. Reading today’s piece on … More

Cancer, Life Lessons

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