To Be of Use (Poem by Marge Piercy)
The people I love the best jump into work head first without dallying in the shallows…
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Bits and Clips for February 2025
I hope you find something among all this artwork, photography, memes, links, and quotes that spurs you on, inspires, supports, educates, or motivates you.
Acceptance (Poem by Kerry Hardie)
I don’t know how else to explain the calm of this grey wetness with hardly a glimmer of light or life, only my car tyres swishing the lying water…
Unresolution (Poem by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer)
Unresolution Because after all these years of focusing on the goal as if happiness is a thing I attain or a place I might finally reach, now I thrill when I see through the myth of arrivals. I see where I have grasped and clutched and clawed and scrabbled to be somewhere not where I … Read more
Bits and Clips December 2024
I hope you find something among all this artwork, photography, memes, links, and quotes that spurs you on, inspires, supports, educates, or motivates you.
Refugee (Post Christmas Poem by Malcolm Guite)
We think of him as safe beneath the steeple, or cosy in a crib beside the font, but he is with a million displaced people on the long road of weariness and want.
Snowy Night (poem by Mary Oliver)
Last night, an owl in the blue dark tossed an indeterminate number of carefully shaped sounds into the world…
The Truelove (Poem by David Whyte)
There is a faith in loving fiercely the one who is rightfully yours…
Antidote for Fear of Not Being Good Enough (Poem by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer)
Nothing magical about it unless you count all the sunlight dribbling like praise down my chin.
Bits and Clips November 2024
I hope you find something among all this artwork, photography, memes, links, and quotes that spurs you on, inspires, supports, educates, or motivates you.
The World We Make (Poem by Alfred Grant Walton)
We make the world in which we live, by what we gather and what we give…
Small Steps (Poem by Elena Mikhalkova)
Small Steps My grandmother once gave me a tip: In difficult times, you move forward in small steps. Do what you have to do, but little by little. Don’t think about the future, or what may happen tomorrow. Wash the dishes. Remove the dust. Write a letter. Make a soup. You see? You are advancing … Read more
Filling in the Bubble on the Ballot (Poem by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer)
I imagine the small oval a pupil widening in the dark…
Bits and Clips for October 2024
I hope you find something among all this artwork, photography, memes, links, and quotes that spurs you on, inspires, supports, educates, or motivates you.
