As we navigate our life, remarkable works on the theme of “paths” by artist Richard Long got us thinking and stumbling on some serious wisdom…
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Brilliance: Email Signature with a Poem Attached
Today I got an email from a Rachel Fleishman, a therapist I met recently. Attached to the usual email signature with her name and link to her website, was a short poem by Antonio Machado in tiny print. Ahhhh…such a swell idea: to send along some image-producing/light-bearing poetry, or a particularly great quote, that would surprise…
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So Many Pathways At Any Given Moment
This morning we ready this haiku by Buson: Coming back— so many pathways through the spring grass. Only nine words, it has been resonating all day
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looking for a poem, it found me (how answers come)
Here’s the kind of thing that happens all the time around here: I was looking at a stack of poetry books — my morning reading — for a poem to post for a shift of view. I flipped through Gary Snyder, Su Tung Po, Pablo Neruda, then got distracted by an email. It was from…
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