Tag: poetry

• Pool Musings … Midday

  

                                                                         Sunday, August 9th We come down to “our” pool at midday for a swim and some exercise to work out the kinks accumulated over the years and through this pandemic indolence. Two men, one young, one older, attend at the barbeques on the patio. Corn and some other food are carefully turned. A man,…

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  August 10, 2020

  mindfulness

  Musings, poetry

• #bounceback

  Caregivers are compassionate. It is their nature. For most humans it is their nature and very natural to care. It can be an exhausting job though. Sometimes the compassion well feels pretty dry and empty. Oftentimes, caregivers are not the first to notice the symptoms of empty well or exhaustion until they are just about…

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  January 5, 2016

  art, balance, compassion, compassion fatigue, contentment, creativity, depression, describing feeling, disappointment, equanimity, expressive art, expressive writing, fun, gratitude, Lapidus, mindfulness, paying attention, Poetry Therapy, resilience, rising above, SAD, seasonal affective disorder, service, thinking out loud, visual thinking, work, writing

  #bounceback, compassion fatigue, depression, expressive art, expressive writing, poetry, recover your self, resilience, think, visual thinking, writing

• November’s post

  Since it is a month of remembrance, I wanted to share a poem. Not everyone goes to war, but most of us have battles to fight day-by-day. Please read of a kind of battle that people like my grandmother may have had to live as they spent their lives grinding out a living as a…

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  November 9, 2015

  compassion, connection, deeply, mindfulness, poetry, Poetry Therapy

  poetry, Poetry Therapy, Transformative Language., Wordscapes

• 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.

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  July 22, 2015

  #Leafology, balance, contentment, equanimity, gratitude, learning as lifestyle, paying attention, poetry

  #Leafology, crow, gratitude, poetry