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Category: Poetry
What’s New… July 2024
Since the last newsletter I have been on the road to library conferences, hiking, writing poetry, and working on a variety of research and writing projects…. JUST RELEASED: lighthouses of midcoast maine & tales of the folk who lived there We brainstormed this book while on a 2023 lighthouse cruise out of Bar Harbor, Maine.…
an artist’s statement
look up look deep within look underneath linger awhile being minimal nothing is about us really we are dancing motes winding our way down a shaft of sunlight singing
not psychotic break
not psychotic break but midlife walkabout for two i want to go on a walking retreat with you i want to lose the false masks the false stress the false problems i want to feel my body working harder than it’s ever done i want to challenge my body, my emotions, and my brain i…
Reflection #5: Thoughts on Infinite Learning, Libraries as Classrooms, & Librarians as Teachers
I. in infancy we are fearless learning machines playful fluid learning minds ever curious ever seeking ever growing with fertile ground and nurturing we grow and thrive in hard-packed soil with hard-boiled souls we learn to survive in either case as we age, we slow ‘til we assume we know all there…
Finding the Flow
write coaching email for genealogy club members crunch numbers for upcoming board meeting moderate volunteer luncheon & training send a personal thank you note to a generous sponsor flyers, flyers, flyers book selection committee meet with board president sprinkle generously with training moments spice with shared laughter add just about two miles of walking inside…
transmission trouble
the fluid burnt to sienna richness oozes seeps drips runs pours streams into the drip pan as you (in your ymca t-shirt and paint spattered shorts) loosen each of s e v e n t e e n bolts why seventeen? i ask (i love to watch you work) it’s a mystery… you say you…
celebrate
the thing about genealogy is this… you see from your own family and others that people are just people from the bishop to the farmer to the indigent widow from the lowest peasant to the wealthiest baron people are just people all have suffered all have fallen short we are all alike no need for…
irish ancestry notes
i’m irish? i’m irish. i’m irish! a few generations ago my people were irish what a wealth of stories that implies did they weep with joy coming to maine because the land and the weather felt like home? did they smile to see flowers on the meadow cows lined up for milking low bawling heard…
advice to our grandson
For the Baby Who Bumped His Nose (& His Forehead) [& His Chin] Yesterday Tips from Grandma’s Wild & Wooly Childhood 1. Do not stand where doors will be opened. Door knobs make a solid impression, and the black eyes they leave behind when they smack you in the head are quite spectacular. 2. When…
tenacious
They walk along a rocky shore father and delighted four-year old daughter (now wrapped in a quarter century). Stooping with wonder to gaze into shallow tidepools teeming with life. See! Oh look, Daddy! Tiny shelled creatures. Tenacious as the relationship between father and four-year-old daughter all grown up. fl 2004_08