[Note: These Resources for Recovering Resilience will now post weekly in 2023, on Thursdays; always archived on my website.] If I had known to post the poems below to mark […]
This year’s new year’s blessing comes from Larry Robinson, a wonderful poet and stalwart supporter of other poets. His poem holds the many contractions and heartaches of our world with […]
I wrote this poem as I was on the brink of launching my first website, almost 20 years ago! Celebrating the deep friendships sustaining me then; that continue to sustain […]
A friend sent me the full quote of Albert Camus’s well-known …in the midst of winter I found there was within me an invincible summer…” I looked it up in […]
Poem Bathing by Gail Onion Poem bathing.An hour spent reading favorite poetry.Sometimes there is ecstasy, a respite from care, sometimes reassurance that the world has meaningthere is wonder and aweand how to find peace […]
I have found no more resonant reflection on the true meanings of gratitude for this [U.S.] Thanksgiving Day than this excerpt from the poet David Whyte’s Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment, […]
Someone shared Amanda Gorman’s poem Fury and Faith at our recent Gourmet Poets Society gathering. These words in these times of rapid social and political turmoil remind us: “whether we […]
I confess. There was quite a bit of whooping and hollering when my Gourmet Poets Society friends and I learned last weekend that the Democrats had won the Senate seat […]
This poem must be read straight through, top to bottom, then, as the poet instructs, read again from the bottom to the top. It’s a brilliant lesson in the power […]
I’ve returned to the “real world” as of yesterday. I did watch all 32 films in the Mill Valley Film Festival that I had planned to, and will try to […]