I’ve been saving the poem below for my penultimate e-post of these Resources for Recovering Resilience. The wrap-up e-post will be sent July 13 after teaching my very last ever […]
Tomorrow is the first anniversary of the February 24, 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, a startling escalation of Russian ambitions to seize Ukrainian territory that began a decade before. Because […]
The unfolding of my life has always been held and reflected in the deep wisdom of poetry. From John O’Donohue’s For a New Beginning when I first had an inkling […]
[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 […]