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Tag: 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

Brave space?

  Invitation to Brave Space Together we will create brave space. Because there is no such thing as a “safe … More

Amos Trust, Life Lessons, Lifesaving Poems, Mental Health, mindfulness, Presence

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

Any Common Desolation

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

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

On nearly going back to Twitter

I nearly went back on Twitter the other day. Not once, but several times. One of my very lovely relatives … More

Being a Poet, Being a Writer, Being Creative, How to Leave Twitter, Leaving Social Media, Leaving Twitter, Life Lessons, mindfulness, Presence, Silence, Social Media, Social Media Addiction, Twitter, Writing Process

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