Women’s History Month Care Package for Friday, March 26, 2021

Poetry:The Heart’s Astronomy by Julia Ward HoweThis evening, as the twilight fell,My younger child watched for me;Like cherubs in the window framed,I saw the smiling group of three.Read More Song In My Head: Sweet Woman by Cris Williamson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKrgIM8HGt8 Art: Joan Mitchell’s Merci Photo credit: joanmitchellfoundation.org Quote: “I didn’t know what I wanted to do, …

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Care Package for Friday, March 26, 2021

Poetry: Spring is like a perhaps hand by E.E. Cummings      IIISpring is like a perhaps hand(which comes carefullyout of Nowhere) arranginga window, into which people look (whileRead More (https://poets.org/poem/spring-perhaps-hand) Lyrical: It Might as Well Be Spring by Nina SimoneI’m as busy as a spider spinning daydreams/I’m as giddy as a baby on a …

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Women’s History Month Care Package for Thursday, March 25, 2021

Poetry: Anti-Chlorinated Feminism by Rosemarie DombrowskiThe gospel of the journey is realizingthat eating is a political act,that the Woodstock of the mindis everywhere on a tiny planet like ours,Read More Song In My Head: Girls Like Girls by Hayley Kiyoko https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0MT8SwNa_U Art: L’Merchie Frazier’s Madonna and Child: The Embrace Photo credit: news.artnet.com Quote: “I hate …

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Care Package for Thursday, March 25, 2021

Poetry: Why Regret? by Galway KinnellDidn’t you like the way the ants helpthe peony globes open by eating the glue off?Weren’t you cheered to see the ironworkerssitting on an I-beam dangling from a cable,Read More Song In My Head: Mr. Blue Sky by Electric Light OrchestraHey you with the pretty face/Welcome to the human race …

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Care Package for Wednesday, March 24, 2021

Poetry: Instructions on Not Giving Up by Ada LimónMore than the fuchsia funnels breaking outof the crabapple tree, more than the neighbor’salmost obscene display of cherry limbs shovingtheir cotton candy-colored blossoms to the slateRead More Lyrical: Can’t Stop the Spring by The Flaming LipsYou can crush the flowers/But you can’t stop the spring/No matter what …

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