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Poetry as Therapy
<p>Poetry as Therapy Listen to presences inside poems.Let them take you where they will.Follow those private hints,And never leave the premises. —Rumi In this poem, Rumi simplifies what Poetry therapy is about. Take a poem, listen to the presence inside of it, le
Narrative Medicine
<p>A story is like water that you heat for your bath. It takes messages between the fire and your skin. It lets them meet, and it cleans you! — Jalal al-Din Rumi As a clinical social worker, psychotherapist, and a writer, I have experienced the power of stories in healing, for this reason I have… </p>
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For a Long Time When I was a Child
<p>Papi, missing your presence here on earth… “For a long time when I was a child I slept with my father everynight it was something he discouraged, but quietly encouragedwith his acceptance I would sneak out of my room ready to battle the dark shadowsof spirits only children are known to see and I would… </p>
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A Digital Story
<p>This is a Digital Story created at the Center for Digital Story in 2005. A Digital Story combines, photos, music and narrative to create a story told in five minutes or less. This story tells of my collage path, how I got here. It tells too of where I am going.</p>
The Thorn Necklace
<p>For years I have enjoyed Francesca Lia Block’s work, so to find this new book about the writing process was very exciting. The review notes that the book is named for the painting by Frida Kahlo, who famously transformed her own personal suffering into art, The Thorn Necklace offers lessons on life, love, and the creative… </p>
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Tell all the truth but tell it slant
<p>EMILY DICKINSON Tell all the truth but tell it slant —Success in Circuit liesToo bright for our infirm DelightThe Truth’s superb surpriseAs Lightning to the Children easedWith explanation kindThe Truth must dazzle graduallyOr every man be blind — Back when I was young, I fell in love with poets and poetry. I would take Emily’s… </p>
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Story – “The Storyteller”
<p>“In the morning when the sunrises my mother, Mia, wakes up and does her morning meditation. She always does this before she goes to work. I always know for a fact that by 6:30 a.m. she will be facing East, towards the sun, her face covered by sunlight. She’ll be in lotus pose legs folded… </p>
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September 2019 -Traveling to Your Self—Integrating Vacations into Daily Life
<p>Live With Awareness, Courage and Love (ACL) Meetup Traveling to Your Self—Integrating Vacations into Daily Life The theme of this ACL Meetup is inspired by the vacation season. Many associate vacations with the hope of leaving behind the unpleasant feelings of everyday life (e.g. overwhelming busyness, inner emptiness, anxiety, etc.).Often, there is the hope that… </p>
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My Parent’s Room
<p>by Annecy Baez My parents’ room was small with the scent of camphor sticks and bay rum for my mother suffered from many ailments some real and others imaginary Above one of the bureaus was my father’s precious altar with a smiling Buddha and a porcelain statue of La Virgencita de la Altagracia who stood… </p>
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Carl Leggo
<p>Loving Language: A Poet’s Vocation & Vision I live in the world artfully, poetically, spiritually, and contemplatively. Indeed, in my daily experience, I regard artful, poetic, spiritual, and contemplative living as synonymous, or at least as threads that are woven together in a sturdy braid. Contemplation is the action of attending thoughtfully, carefully, deeply, reflectively… </p>
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