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A muse at day’s ending toward a new year

  revised April 15, 2025

I would be considered ‘retired’ by most people, but not in my mind. I finished two Master’s degrees during our Covid lockdowns and I am chomping at the bit ready to put all that I learned out into the “world”. And I was doing just that, then came a blip.

But we can’t let something like a blip detour our whole plan…or life. So I retreated for a while and now I’m ready, all the way into 2025 to begin again, again.

Photo credit: Jeff Suchak of http://mythiclandscape.com

This is what I am pondering as another Spring season creeps closer and closer.

So, I am making art and making plans too. Plans to bring this idea into focus, a focus so sharp that it materializes itself as an offering into the world that I believe so deeply needs the healing it brings.

As I spend time in the Southern Ontario Wren’s Nest Studio here in Leamington once again, I just need to be open to listen and move to this music that is drawing me. In good time, all will come.

And though what needs birthing feels a little distant, like individual trees in a forest, I do see it shimmering, beckoning, smiling … and I know that if I focus on that which I am being called to do and be, all will be well.

And so it is…

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    I was trying to find something else, but I came upon an older post with a poem called “Crow Lessons”. It didn’t sound right. And it wasn’t. Sometimes–most times–you have to trust the body. When there is a twinge or a tiny jerk in the abdomen … maybe your body is telling you something. Pay Read more

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  • Crow Lessons in poem form

    Crow Lessons susanna suchak Clickety, clack, talking back Crow sits, watches intently I sit, We—Sharing secrets he— Resting in old tree Me—Sipping cuppa tea Lone souls he and me Still, we’re Good company. Read more

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  • Crow Lessons in poem form

    Crow Lessons susanna suchak Clickety, clack, talking back Crow sits, watches intently I sit, We—Sharing secrets he— Resting in old tree Me—Sipping cuppa tea Lone souls he and me Still, we’re Good company. Read more

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  • Rockin’ Robin and all that jazz

    Two of my favourite books of poetry to read from were Shel Silverstein’s Where the Sidewalk Ends and A Light in the Attic.   “Early Bird” Shel Silverstein (http://www.shelsilverstein.com/) Oh, if you’re a bird, be an early bird And catch the worm for your breakfast plate. If you’re a bird, be an early early bird— Read more

  • Crow Lessons … Revised

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  • Throwback Thursday…

    On Facebook many play a game called “Throwback Thursday” where they post old photographs. I wondered if I could adapt that to here to give me a push to get back on track. Here’s a piece I wrote quite some time ago. Please let me know what you think about it. Thanks. SLUGLINE: The Power Read more

  • Crow Lessons in poem form

    Crow Lessons susanna suchak Clickety, clack, talking back Crow sits, watches intently I sit, We—Sharing secrets he— Resting in old tree Me—Sipping cuppa tea Lone souls he and me Still, we’re Good company. Read more

  • Crow Lessons

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  • Identity

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  • Rockin’ Robin and all that jazz

    Two of my favourite books of poetry to read from were Shel Silverstein’s Where the Sidewalk Ends and A Light in the Attic.   “Early Bird” Shel Silverstein (http://www.shelsilverstein.com/) Oh, if you’re a bird, be an early bird And catch the worm for your breakfast plate. If you’re a bird, be an early early bird— Read more

  • Crow Lessons … Revised

    I was trying to find something else, but I came upon an older post with a poem called “Crow Lessons”. It didn’t sound right. And it wasn’t. Sometimes–most times–you have to trust the body. When there is a twinge or a tiny jerk in the abdomen … maybe your body is telling you something. Pay Read more

  • Throwback Thursday…

    On Facebook many play a game called “Throwback Thursday” where they post old photographs. I wondered if I could adapt that to here to give me a push to get back on track. Here’s a piece I wrote quite some time ago. Please let me know what you think about it. Thanks. SLUGLINE: The Power Read more

  • Crow Lessons in poem form

    Crow Lessons susanna suchak Clickety, clack, talking back Crow sits, watches intently I sit, We—Sharing secrets he— Resting in old tree Me—Sipping cuppa tea Lone souls he and me Still, we’re Good company. Read more

  • Crow Lessons

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  • Identity

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  • Rockin’ Robin and all that jazz

    Two of my favourite books of poetry to read from were Shel Silverstein’s Where the Sidewalk Ends and A Light in the Attic.   “Early Bird” Shel Silverstein (http://www.shelsilverstein.com/) Oh, if you’re a bird, be an early bird And catch the worm for your breakfast plate. If you’re a bird, be an early early bird— Read more

  • Crow Lessons … Revised

    I was trying to find something else, but I came upon an older post with a poem called “Crow Lessons”. It didn’t sound right. And it wasn’t. Sometimes–most times–you have to trust the body. When there is a twinge or a tiny jerk in the abdomen … maybe your body is telling you something. Pay Read more

  • Throwback Thursday…

    On Facebook many play a game called “Throwback Thursday” where they post old photographs. I wondered if I could adapt that to here to give me a push to get back on track. Here’s a piece I wrote quite some time ago. Please let me know what you think about it. Thanks. SLUGLINE: The Power Read more

  • Crow Lessons in poem form

    Crow Lessons susanna suchak Clickety, clack, talking back Crow sits, watches intently I sit, We—Sharing secrets he— Resting in old tree Me—Sipping cuppa tea Lone souls he and me Still, we’re Good company. Read more

  • Crow Lessons

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  • Identity

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  • Rockin’ Robin and all that jazz

    Two of my favourite books of poetry to read from were Shel Silverstein’s Where the Sidewalk Ends and A Light in the Attic.   “Early Bird” Shel Silverstein (http://www.shelsilverstein.com/) Oh, if you’re a bird, be an early bird And catch the worm for your breakfast plate. If you’re a bird, be an early early bird— Read more

  • Crow Lessons … Revised

    I was trying to find something else, but I came upon an older post with a poem called “Crow Lessons”. It didn’t sound right. And it wasn’t. Sometimes–most times–you have to trust the body. When there is a twinge or a tiny jerk in the abdomen … maybe your body is telling you something. Pay Read more

  • Throwback Thursday…

    On Facebook many play a game called “Throwback Thursday” where they post old photographs. I wondered if I could adapt that to here to give me a push to get back on track. Here’s a piece I wrote quite some time ago. Please let me know what you think about it. Thanks. SLUGLINE: The Power Read more

  • Crow Lessons in poem form

    Crow Lessons susanna suchak Clickety, clack, talking back Crow sits, watches intently I sit, We—Sharing secrets he— Resting in old tree Me—Sipping cuppa tea Lone souls he and me Still, we’re Good company. Read more

  • Crow Lessons

    Early last spring a messenger came to me. He perched in the ancient oak tree outside my studio and peered into the window inquisitively. Crows are very curious. Image found here: http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/American_Crow/id All the while I was sitting there tippy tapping on my keyboard, this crow watched me, tilting his head this way and that Read more

  • Identity

    Identity. What is it to a kid? Self assurance. What’s that? Today let’s explore that through poetry. And who better than Shane Koyczan to begin this journey. This link will take you to eight different poems that deal with identity. Just in case you bought into the myth that once you were “all growed up” Read more

  • Rockin’ Robin and all that jazz

    Two of my favourite books of poetry to read from were Shel Silverstein’s Where the Sidewalk Ends and A Light in the Attic.   “Early Bird” Shel Silverstein (http://www.shelsilverstein.com/) Oh, if you’re a bird, be an early bird And catch the worm for your breakfast plate. If you’re a bird, be an early early bird— Read more




















    
    

        
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