May 2013
It’s not our job to toughen our children up to face a cruel and heartless world....
– L.R.Knost (via thatkindofwoman)
PREACH.
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April 2013
After learning my flight was detained 4 hours,
I heard the announcement:
If...
– Naomi Shihab Nye (b. 1952), “Wandering Around an Albuquerque Airport Terminal.” I think this poem may be making the rounds, this week, but that’s as it should be. (via awelltraveledwoman)
The world is full of loss; bring, wind, my love,
my home is where we...
– Muriel Rukeyser, “Song” (via aubade)
I exist in two places,
here and where you are
– Margaret Atwood (via theantidote)
I have to write a poem today.
It would figure on the first of the month that I committed to write one each day, I’d feel like so ill. I ache everywhere and it hurts to move.
I have to find the strength to open up to writing…and if I am honest with myself, it’s not just how awful I feel today that’s the problem.
March 2013
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