poetry
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My Mantra for the past 40 years: The Influence of Roethke’s The Waking:
I thought I would close these musings on poetry and the journey of life with a poem that I first…
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The Difficult Work of Recovering Love for One’s Self After Love Has Ended
One of the more common and heartbreaking reasons that many people decide to enter therapy is due to the end…
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The Difficult Work of Love
When I first see couples who are struggling in their relationship, I sometimes share this line from the poet Rilke…
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Leaving Home and Learning to Listen to Your Own Voice
Leaving home and starting to separate and individuate from our families is one of the first, most difficult, and exciting…
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How Did I Get Here? What Have I Learned?
I’m grateful I’m learning To look back on all my Bumbling, misguided failures And see them…
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Living with peace during COVID
For what are you most grateful as you look back over the year and why? I am most grateful to…
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Gratitude and Clarity during COVID
For what are you most grateful as you look back over the year and why? I am grateful for my…
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Resiliency through Poetry
One of the things that helped me not just cope, but also make meaning and provide hope during this difficult…
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The Inner Ocean #7
another episode of the ocean clearing the synapses, washing clean the stray thought forms that pop up. the waves bringing…
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The Inner Ocean #6
the quiet of the ocean’s thunder roar is a stillpoint, a silent space amidst the turbulence insisted upon to drown…
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Woman and Wild
Woman and Wild I can’t tell you the first time the wild whispered into my tiny child heart because the…
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A Poem about Hope and Place
Source: https://www.amazon.com/Leavings-Poems-Wendell-Berry/dp/158243624X It is hard to have hope. It is harder as you grow old, For hope must not depend…
