Ain’t Burned All the Bright (Book Review)
This book is a powerful rendition of what it felt like to be black in America during the pandemic and the violence that spawned the Black Lives Matters movement.
poetry by others
Instructions on Not Giving Up (Poem by Ada Limon with Photos)
Spring brings hope, casting aside emptiness in favor of receptivity.
Bits and Clips for April 2022
I hope you find something in these links, memes, photos, poems, and paintings that is inspiring, educational, interesting, motivational, soothing, joyous, or encouraging…
Beannacht (Poem by John O’Donohue)
On the day when the weight deadens on your shoulders and you stumble, may the clay dance to balance you…
Bits and Clips for March 2022
I hope you are inspired, motivated, intrigued, or educated by the many paintings, photographs, poems, podcasts, videos, memes, and articles in this post:
A Thousand Acres of Light (Poem by Maurya Simon)
I’d rather unravel the wind’s calligraphies, letter by letter, and spell myself into the world, a glittering altar of atoms, all aswirl.
How the Light Comes (Poem by Jan Richardson)
My we open and open more and open still to the blessed light that comes.
Bits and Clips for February 2022
I hope you find something inspiring, educational, motivational, beautiful, helpful, challenging or satisfying, in these many paintings, photographs, poems, quotes, memes, and links…
Bioluminescence (poem by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer)
Bioluminescence Sometimes, when I fear the small light I bring isn’t big enough or bright enough, I think of that night on the beach years ago when every step I took in the cool wet sand turned a glowing, iridescent blue— and the waves themselves were a flashing greenish hue— imagine we could do what … Read more
Bits and Clips for January 2022
I hope much of the copious artwork, photography, memes, poetry, links, and quotes on this post will resonate with you, inspire you, motivate you, educate you, amuse you, and reassure you!
New Day’s Lyric (Poem by Amanda Gorman)
Come over, join this day just begun. For wherever we come together, we will forever overcome.