Writer, book-lover, wife, mom, wanna-be-guitar player.
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get them what they really want this holiday season: a vine-covered lighthouse where they can read books all day and stare out to sea and walk down to the local pub for a bowl of stew
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blown away hearing @IsmaelC_C speak about his journey & the passion that drove him to land the role of Arondir in #TheRingsOfPower. I can’t imagine the show without him, especially after hearing that his prayer over the tree was his own improvisation. 🥹
youtu.be/HIsF01dMQrE
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list of nice things: old lampposts lining a cobblestone street, smoke rising from old chimney tops, the scent of bread from a local bakery, watching kids play in the park pond, flower boxes in every apartment window, a brief glimpse of strangers in the subway car across from you
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you wake up as the sun rises and go for a walk, kept company by the songs of morning birds and the occasional soft tap of an acorn falling from its tree
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you write a list of new arrivals on the chalkboard that stands outside your bookstore
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This is the seamstress of the bird world…
Nature is incredible. Protect it.
#ActOnClimate #climate #energy #rewilding #birds
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you start the day with a swim in the sea and a hot breakfast at the local inn
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Now if you listen closely
I'll tell you what I know
Storm clouds are gathering
The wind is gonna blow
The race of man is suffering
And I can hear the moan,
'Cause nobody,
But nobody
Can make it out here alone.
—Maya Angelou
poets.org/poem/alone
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"We don't have to know everything at once. We just do one thing at a time as it is given us to do."
A Wind in the Door
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Course Catalog (a poem)
How to be sad (101)
How to be sad and not fall into despair (201)
How to be let others be sad and not try to fix them (311)
How to be angry (102)
How to be angry without hurting anyone (202)
How to turn your anger into the fiercest of love (grad seminar)
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Suffering people often need others to have faith and hope for them. Admonitions to hope or trust only often result in despair; if the sufferers were able, they would do so. It is often helpful to say, “I know you struggle to hope right now. I will hope for you.”
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“People have said 'Don’t cry' to other people for years and years, and all it has ever meant is 'I’m too uncomfortable when you show your feelings: don’t cry.' I’d rather have them say, 'Go ahead and cry. I’m here to be with you.'
-Fred Rogers
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In the chest, an animal. The animal
forgetting how: to howl, to crawl,
to find the words.
—Margarita Cruz
poets.org/poem/mourning
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Your story,
temporarily grounded
by silencers
will grow feathers
and fly
above the darkness
toward the light.
And all who have naysayed
all who have squelched
your voice
will see you rise above.
They may scoff,
but soar, friend, soar.
christie dawn retweeted
If we want any chance of reconciliation then our conversations have to start with compassion.
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The sun came back over the Forest, bringing the scent of May. All the streams of the Forest were tinkling happily to find themselves their own pretty shape again and the little pools lay dreaming of the life they had seen and the things they had done. ~A.A.Milne #spring
