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Commit Poetry: Kindness

August 1, 2019 By Sandra Heska King

We have seen kindness in action during the last several weeks. My 16-year-old grand girl, Gracee AKA Grace AKA Amazing Grace, was in a serious car accident in June. I've been in Michigan (I forgot to mention where I actually was in the below video) since then to help in her recovery. While here, I've continued to try to memorize a little poetry. The By Heart Community at Tweetspeak Poetry has been working on "Kindness" by Naomi Shihab Nye--one of my very favorite poems by one of my very favorite … [Read More...]

Commit Poetry: A Midsummer Night’s Dream

May 29, 2019 By Sandra Heska King

Since I turned 70 earlier in the year, I've had to accept I'm way, way past midlife. But some say that 70 is the new 40 (or is it 50?), and my own midsummer night's dream is one of looking and feeling … [Read More...]

Charlotte's Web

First Words Friday: Week 11 – 2019 – Charlotte’s Web

March 15, 2019 By Sandra Heska King

Charlotte's Web by E.B. White. Have you read it? If so, did you read it as a child or as an adult? In the foreword of the 60th anniversary edition, author Kate DiCamillo confesses she didn't read it … [Read More...]

The Nun's Story

FIRST WORDS FRIDAY: WEEK 10 – 2019 – THE NUN’S STORY

March 9, 2019 By Sandra Heska King

The Nun's Story by Kathryn C. Hulme, copyright 1956, was a Book of the Month Club selection that reached #1 on the New York Times best-seller list. My friend's dad, who was our mailman, tucked it in … [Read More...]

First Words Friday: Week 9 – 2019 – Anna Karenina

March 2, 2019 By Sandra Heska King

I was scrolling through my Kindle (which I hardly every look at) this morning and found I had downloaded a copy of Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina. It's been years--and years and years and years--since I … [Read More...]

rabbit

First Words Friday: Week 8 – 2019 – The Velveteen Rabbit

February 22, 2019 By Sandra Heska King

For the month of love, here are some first words from a not-for-children-only classic, The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams. This is a longer selection (okay it's super long), but it's okay as the … [Read More...]

wrinkle in time

First Words Friday: Week 7 – 2019 – A Wrinkle in Time

February 15, 2019 By Sandra Heska King

I'm taking another workshop through Tweetspeak Poetry called Writing Toward Joy and led by the incomparable Megan Willome. We are working our way through Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time by … [Read More...]

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Let Evening Come

Commit Poetry: Let Evening Come by Jane Kenyon

January 7, 2019

Tweetspeak Poetry has formed a "By Heart" Community, and we are memorizing a poem each month. For December it was "Let Evening Come" by Jane Kenyon. Having lived for years in the country and walked … [Read More...]

Anna Akhmatova and Friends

December 7, 2018

  When Anatoly Nayman recounts his first meeting with the Russian poet, Anna Akhmatova, he describes her gesture of hospitality. The woman who had let me into the flat brought in a saucer on … [Read More...]

Dared

Dared: To Paint a Wall Chartreuse

April 19, 2018

    Chartreuse. The color of your creativity. That phrase pinged around my head this morning. I wrote it on an index card, attributed it to L.L. Barkat, and pinned it to my bulletin … [Read More...]

Dare

Dared: A 30-Mile Bike Ride and a Request

February 16, 2018

  I've gone and dared myself again. Back in December my cardiologist told me I needed to lose some weight. Sigh... I know that, but he's the first doctor who ever called me out. In the past … [Read More...]

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