Live(s) Inspiring Today
“I tell you, Chickadee, I am afraid of people who cannot cry.” Alice Walker Portland’s icy-snow is melting, and some of us are staying warm with words. For me it’s been sitting on the couch with one book after another, but on Friday night some lucky poets gathered at the Newmark downtown to celebrate …
Continue reading “The Outlier: A Poem by Peg Edera & Thank You to William Stafford”
“A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.” Maya Angelou Last year my friend Stacey Hill told me she’d begun a ritual of gathering herself up three words to guide her for the year. She challenged me to do the same, and I did. But, by …
Continue reading “Risk, Reveal, Relate: The Poetry Circle Goes to Manzanita”
“To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest source of all personal happiness.” Bertrand Russell (favorite reminder-words of the year!) It’s been a world of L.I.T. in 2014–Lives Inspiring Today. Thanks to each of you who have traveled along. It’s been a pleasure to notice and note so many people …
“What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.” Mahatma Gandhi Not long ago, John Fox led a poetry writing workshop in Portland, Oregon. The theme, “Writing Our Relationship With Trees” seemed ho-hum–until I attended. During these two …
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“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Last week, Peg brought Jack Gilbert’s poem “A Brief for the Defense” to our early-morning poetry circle. Sun Magazine published this poem along with a short biography and their regret …
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