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Lifesaving Lines: What the Living Do, by Marie Howe

Two great lines for the price of one (it is Christmas, after all) this week, from Marie Howe’s extraordinary poem … More

Being a Poet, Cancer, Grief, Life Lessons, Lifesaving Lines, Marie Howe, mindfulness, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Reading Poetry, Remission, What the Living Do

In search of beginner’s mind

As I come back to this blog, I am looking to try and inhabit what Zen practitioners call beginner’s mind. … More

Being a Poet, Jaan Kaplinski, mindfulness, Natalie Goldberg, Poems, Poets, Reading Poetry, Writing Poems

The blanket

Though you may disappear, you’re not forgotten hereAnd I will say to you, I will do what I can do … More

Brene Brown, CBT, Depression, Depression and Anxiety, Depression Story, Health, Life Lessons, Mental Health, Mental Health at Work, Mental Health Awareness, Mental Illness, Mental Illness Parable, Mental Illness Story, mindfulness, Parable of Depression, Peter Gabriel, Peter Gabriel Wallflower, Presence, Stress, Vulnerability, Wallflower, Work

A day he won’t have

I had bumped into a friend at the cash machine. We greeted each other, as we always do, with a … More

Being a Poet, Blood Cancer, Cancer, Death, Dying, Health, Illness, Life Lessons, Lymphoma, mindfulness, Presence, Remission, Robert Pinsky

What you read in 2020

Here are the blog posts that you read most in 2020 As I click through the links I am surprised … More

Alzheimer's, Blogging, Dementia, Grief, Lifesaving Poems, Loss, Mental Health, mindfulness, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Presence

This was a good week

Third Sunday in Advent Today I pause from giving you updates from grief’s front line and take a leaf from … More

Advent, Anna Kamienska, Clive Wilmer, Gratitude, Grief, Harold Budd, John Freeman, Karen Walrond, mindfulness, Shawna Lemay, Simon Parke

In memory of Harold Budd

Harold Budd, May 24, 1936 – December 8, 2020 I am reposting this piece today in memory of Harold Budd, … More

Children on the Hill, Creativity, Disques du Crepuscule, Durutti Column, Harold Budd, Listening to Music, mindfulness, Music, Presence, The Orb

The Sky Over My Mother’s House

The Sky Over My Mother’s House It is a July night scented with gardenias. The moon and stars shine hiding … More

Grief, Jaime Manrique, Life Lessons, Lifesaving Poems, Mental Health, mindfulness, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Presence

A holiness to exhaustion

First There is a holiness to exhaustion is what I keep telling myself, filling out the form so my TA … More

Carrie Fountain, Exhaustion, Grief, James Schuyler, Lifesaving Poems, mindfulness, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Presence

You’ve got to write it all down

The unexamined life’s no different from                              … More

Bereavement, Charles Wright, Grief, Life Lessons, Life Writing, Lifesaving Poems, mindfulness, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Presence

Go well

  I have walked into the grief. I have walked into brave space, mine and others’. I have sat in … More

Being a Poet, Being a Writer, Being Creative, Coronavirus, Covid-19, Creativity, Grief, Max Richter, Mental Health, mindfulness, Peter Gabriel, Presence, Robert Pinsky

Tired, but

I am tired. Though I write from a place of privilege and of safety, I am tired. Tired of feeling … More

Anne Lamott, Being Creative, Brain Pickings, Creativity, Edward Colston, James Baldwin, Josephine Corcoran, Karen Walrond, Life Lessons, Marie Howe, Marissa Davis, Max Richter, Mental Health, mindfulness, Presence, Rest, Shawna Lemay, Sigur Ros, Simon Parke

We never keep to the present

    We never keep to the present. We recall the past; we anticipate the future as if we found … More

Blaise Pascale, Found Poems, Life Lessons, Lifesaving Poems, mindfulness, Pensees, Presence, reading poems, Reading Poetry

Living in the layers

  The Layers I have walked through many lives, some of them my own, and I am not who I … More

Grief, Life Lessons, Lifesaving Poems, mindfulness, Presence, Reading, reading poems, Reading Poetry, Stanley Kunitz

A quiet moment

  I can’t be alone in experiencing the coronavirus crisis and resulting lockdown as something of an infringement on my … More

A Quiet Moment, Activism, Being Creative, Coronavirus, Covid-19, Creativity, Kafka, Life Lessons, mindfulness, Peter Gabriel, Presence, Reading, Sabbath, Silence, Writing

Crashing out

My concentration has not been all that it might have been recently. Loved ones are suffering. Some with this thing, … More

Cancer as a battle, Coronavirus, Covid-19, Life Lessons, Listening to Music, Lockdown, Margin Call, Max Richter, mindfulness, Presence

Practice

Practice To weep unbidden, to wake at night in order to weep, to wait for the whisker on the face … More

Coronavirus, Covid-19, Ellen Bryant Voigt, Grief, Life Lessons, Lifesaving Poems, Loss, mindfulness, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Pracrice, Prayer, reading poems, Reading Poetry

Any Common Desolation

Any Common Desolation can be enough to make you look upat the yellowed leaves of the apple tree, the fewthat … More

Coronavirus, Covid-19, Ellen Bass, Indigo, Life Lessons, Lifesaving Poems, mindfulness, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Presence, reading poems, Reading Poetry

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