Poetry: Life by Edith WhartonLife, like a marble block, is given to all,A blank, inchoate mass of years and days,Whence one with ardent chisel swift essaysSome shape of strength or symmetry to call;Read More Song In My Head:Just a Girl by No Doubt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHzOOQfhPFg Art: Estelle Asmodelle’s Lollipop Sunshine Photo credit: saatchiart.com Quote: “You can’t …
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Poetry: The Empty Cup by Katharine Rolston FisherEvening at Occaquan. Rain pelts the workhouse roof.The prison matrons are sewing together for the Red CrossThe women prisoners are going to bed in two long rows.Read More Song In My Head: Power of Two by The Indigo Girls https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hj0yVN8pFNw Art: Kathleen Gemberling’s Time’s Echo Photo credit: tacoma.emuseum.com …
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Poetry: Still I Rise by Maya AngelouYou may write me down in historyWith your bitter, twisted lies,You may trod me in the very dirtBut still, like dust, I’ll rise.Read More Song In My Head: You Don’t Own Me by Lesley Gore https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTpvirQ-hPA Art: FromZackary Drucker’s Distance is Where the Heart Is, Home is Where You …
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Poetry: An Old Portrait by Margaret WiddemerFlower-decked, wide-skirted, from her oval frameShe watches us between the drooping curlsAnd smiles a little as she always smiled.Read More Song In My Head: I’m Every Woman by Chaka Khan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVDCNmdi7QI Art: Rosa Bonheur’s The Horse Fair Photo credit: metmuseum.org Quote: “One child, one teacher, one pen and one …
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Poetry: That All, Everyone, Each in Being by Man Der VangDecades I have waited to make sunlightfor all of this to matter, a mark built torest and a mark laid living. I am swornRead More …
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