Poetry: YOUR BRAIN IS NOT A PRISON! by Sasha Debevec-McKenneyA prison is the only place that’s a prison.Maybe your brain is a beehive – or, better:an ants nest? A spin class?Read More Song In My Head: Underground Dream by Son Volt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtWVNnjv3uM Art: Adriaen van Ostade’s Reading the News at the Weavers’ Cottage Photo credit: …
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Care Package for Saturday, Jan. 16, 2020
Poetry: So Call it Grace by Michael WatsonThe first plea-sure was,someday, a manamen a boy be-Read More Song In My Head: High and Dry by Radiohead https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qFfFVSerQo Art: Ahmad ibn al-Suhrawardi al-Bakri’s Folio from a Qur’an Manuscript Photo credit: metmuseum.org Quote: “One of the most moral acts is to create a space in which life …
Care Package for Friday, Jan. 15, 2021
Poetry: Home, Sweet Home by Frances Ellen Watkins HarperSharers of a common country,They had met in deadly strife;Men who should’ve been as brothersMadly sought each other’s life.Read More Song In My Head: If I Could Only Fly by Merle Haggard https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmbY3HwwXLc Art: German Tranverse Flute in D-flat Photo credit: metmuseum.org Quote: “Nobody made a greater …
Care Package for Thursday, Jan. 14, 2021
Poetry: Confessional by Hieu Minh NguyenMaybe a bit dramatic, but I lightCandles with my breakfast, wear a white gownRead More Song In My Head: Good Time by Ranky Tanky https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5j78_P4xnU Art: Joseph Mallord William Turner’s The Lake of Zug Photo credit: metmuseum.org Quote: “The history of an oppressed people is hidden in the lies and …
Care Package for Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2021
Poetry: Eating the Cookies by Jane KenyonThe cousins from Maine, knowingabout her diverticulitis, let out the nuts,so the cookies weren’t entirely to my taste,but they were good enough; yes, good enough.Read More Song In My Head: Speculator by Strangefolk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9r8gtRqC8g Art: Marie-Charles-Isidore Choiselat’s [Landscape with Cottage] Photo credit: metmuseum.org Quote: “If I fall, I’ll fall …