Poetry: Spell for the End of Grief by Amie WhittemoreNo incantations, no rosemary and statice,no keening women in grief dresses.No cauldrons, no candles, no hickory wands.Read more Song In My Head: Either Way by Wilco https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otz5V3RnG1Q Art: Jonathan Leaman’s A Jan Steen Kitchen Photo credit: tate.org.uk Quote: “You are what you do, not what you …
Category: Care Package
Care Package for Saturday, Aug. 1, 2020
For SallyYou were and still are such a good girl. Poetry: The Way We Said Goodbye by Mark VinzSo many years later, the old dogstill circles, head lowered, crippled byarthritis, nearly blind, incontinentRead more Song In My Head: My Dog And Me by John Hiatt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uzSpPfvZs8 Art: Susan Warner’s Sally Quote: “If there are no …
Care Package for Friday, July 31, 2020
Poetry: Still Waiting by Harryette MullenPlease approach with care these figures in black.Regard with care the weight they bear, the scars that mark their hearts.Read more (https://poets.org/poem/still-waiting) Song In My Head: Find the River by R.E.M. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIJGlTu5sEI Art: Ibrahim El-Salahi’s Untitled Photo credit: artsy.net Quote: “If …
Care Package for Thursday, July 30, 2020
Poetry: Coyote by Alexander PoseyA few days more, and then There’ll be no secret glen,Or hollow, deep and dim,To hide or shelter him.Read more Song In My Head: I Hope Yer There by Tim Fite https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mx0YXJA35hM Art: Shafic Abboud’s Portrait de Michele Rodiere Photo credit: artnet.com Quote: “What is the first part of politics? Education. The …
Care Package for Wednesday, July 29, 2020
Poetry: Morning by Paul Laurence DunbarThe mist has left the greening plain,The dew-drops shine like fairy rain,The coquette rose awakes again Her lovely self adorningRead more Song In My Head: What’s Golden by Jurassic 5 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsZKrctSDaw Art: Ged Quinn’s Hold It Up To The Light Photo credit: stephenfriedman.com Quote: “Sometimes your only available transportation …