Category: life
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The Sum of All Years
I got this fantastic idea from Bonnie Gillespie whom if you don’t know and you’re an actor trying to work, you need to just go down the rabbit hole of her website and all she offers. The Sum of All Years is a writing exercise in which each year of your life is described in…
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5 stupid poems
Writing Fail Writer’s Blockleads to pounding head on keyboardinsane debates between the voices in my headand full fetal position yeah…..let’s keep doin’ that. Turtle What is most unfortunateis that I was not born with a shellto pull my head and body intoto hide from that which threatens me.Instead, I was born with soft skinthin in…
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National Poetry Month – 9 and ten
NineYou had blonde hairbuck teeth with a huge gapbig round thick glasses that welfare would pay forand the development of self-consciousnessthis would not go away for decadesand leave you with self-destructive tendanciesand deep shame of simply being alivecoming from the man who abandoned youbut was never really there to begin withthe one who would fail…
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Remember when the world was new
I saw a friend’s picture of her daughter’s first grade class. It was the official school picture, you know, the ones with the teacher standing to the side and all the kids are lined up by height in rows. Except in this picture, the teachers allowed them to make the silliest faces, just brilliant. It’s…
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Life on life’s terms
Sometimes things can be very overwhelming. Bad news in the media, at work, at home, in the neighborhood can make life seemingly unbearable and sometimes even horrible. There’s a tendency sometimes to oversimplify, throw out suggestions such as ‘make a gratitude list’ or even shine over what is going on. While these have been things…
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22/30 April is National Poetry Month
Empathic – the ability or capacity to recognize and sometimes share in the feelings of others. Told by a therapist long ago that I was very empathic.I feel sometimes, too much.Sometimes it is too much for me to look into the eyes of another human being and see what they are feeling.If they are suffering…
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20/30 April is National Poetry Month
Nineteen “It’s the last year of your teen-aged years” she said,I was going to marry her sonThirties, two children and a drug habit that would take him from everything. I didn’t know that.I also didn’t know that love didn’t come on the end of acid filled tongues,rageful fits of thrown items across rooms,squeeling tires peeling…
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Poetry
Many times in a yoga class I have either read poetry or quotes or had poetry read to me. I went on Friday to an amazing slam poet Buddy Wakefield whose work really touches my soul. The past few days, that experience included, has really brought me into a new frame of consciousness. I’m shifting paradigms…
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Christmas thoughts
A complicated time of year. I went into a store yesterday and became very, very, present. I made my way slowly, patiently and carefully through a crowded parking lot and a crowded store. I watched as people often mindlessly rushed through, if you weren’t watching where they were going, they were going to run into…
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The big unknown
I had a friend pass recently, unexpectedly to everyone except for him. In the days preceding his death, he passed along a box to a neighbor saying if he didn’t make it back give it to his family. When friends went out to his car to get it in the parking lot, all of his…
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