Praise Song for the Day BY ELIZABETH ALEXANDER A Poem for Barack Obama’s Presidential Inauguration Each day we go about our business, walking past each other, catching each other’s eyes or not, about to speak or speaking. All about us is noise. All about us is noise and bramble, thorn and din, each one of ourContinue reading “Praise Song For The Day”
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Our Best Selves
People talk about things in such a black and white way. Let’s use the hot button topic of climate change as an example. There’s a lot of talk on both sides of the issue about how the other side is ignorant and “our way” is the best way. Our truth is the only truth. Bullshit. TheContinue reading “Our Best Selves”
Our Best Selves
People talk about things in such a black and white way. Let’s use the hot button topic of climate change as an example. There’s a lot of talk on both sides of the issue about how the other side is ignorant and “our way” is the best way. Our truth is the only truth. Bullshit. TheContinue reading “Our Best Selves”
Small Craft Talk Warning
All poetry is about hope.A scarecrow walks into a bar.An abandoned space station falls to earth.When probing the monster’s brain,you’re probably probing your own.A beautiful woman becomes a ghost.I hope I never miscalculate the dosagethat led to the infarctionof my lab rabbit again.All poetry is a form of hope.Not certain, just actuallike love and otherContinue reading “Small Craft Talk Warning”
Eight Years
Eight years ago today a doctor walked into my hospital room and told me I had leukemia. Since then I’ve periodically asked a question of myself. Not, as you might expect, why me, or even just why. There is no why. It was random, not predictable, and as far as we know not preventable. ItContinue reading “Eight Years”
52 Thoughts: Sixth Thought
Kindness. Hope. Love. Joy.
“I am fundamentally an optimist.”
“I am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from nature or nurture, I cannot say. Part of being optimistic is keeping one’s head pointed toward the sun, one’s feet moving forward. There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested, but I would not and could not give myself up toContinue reading ““I am fundamentally an optimist.””
The world will never starve for wonder, but only for want of wonder. ~ G.K. Chesterson Sierra Club Daily Ray of Hope //embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js
Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that. ~ Martin Luther King Jr. Sierra Club Daily Ray of Hope //embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js
Words to Live By (Part 2)
In this second installment of the life lessons learned/what’s important to me at 50 I give you joy. And many other things. “There are random moments – tossing a salad, coming up the driveway to the house, ironing the seams flat on a quilt square, standing at the kitchen window and looking out at the delphiniums,Continue reading “Words to Live By (Part 2)”
Words to Live By (Part 1)
“The greatest wisdom is in simplicity. Love, respect, tolerance, sharing, gratitude, forgiveness. It’s not complex or elaborate. The real knowledge is free. It’s encoded in your DNA. All you need is within you. Great teachers have said that from the beginning. Find your heart, and you will find your way.” ― Carlos Barrios, Mayan elder andContinue reading “Words to Live By (Part 1)”
On Being Better People, One Film at a Time
I have always struggled to articulate what it is about film that appeals to me so much, what it is that moves me about the movie going experience. I have always loved movies. From a very young age I’ve found the stories told by others to be wonderful, and silly, and profound, and touching, andContinue reading “On Being Better People, One Film at a Time”
Put One Foot In Front Of The Other
When I was growing up I watched, like many of us, the holiday film “Santa Claus is Comin’ To Town”. I was five the first time it aired. It’s amazing how something so simple as a young kid watching a fun holiday movie can stick with a person all these years later, and yet itContinue reading “Put One Foot In Front Of The Other”
It’s a New Dawn, It’s a New Day
It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day, it’s a new life for me… and I’m feelin’ good, to once again quote Nina. I woke up this morning changed, the world around me changed as well. It’s almost as if my eyes see more clearly, my heart beats more deeply, my mind is more open. Continue reading “It’s a New Dawn, It’s a New Day”
Words
I read this quote today in the Sierra Club’s Daily Ray of Hope e-mail. I loved it and thought I’d share. The forests are the flags of nature. They appeal to all and awaken inspiring universal feelings. Enter the forest and the boundaries of nations are forgotten. It may be that some time an immortalContinue reading “Words”
