A Watchful Dad
Jeanne Poland's Poetry Blog
27 Sep 2024 Leave a comment
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Denis Brown
Calligrapher, Ireland.
26 Sep 2024 Leave a comment
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Athletes break their ankles
Riding mountain bikes
Roller skating
Getting caught in a rush @ a colosseum in Italy
Then they have to wear a sleeve and a boot and use a travel wheelchair and continue to exercise back to mended bones that reconnect and heal…
’til we are back to athletic moves that stand out, stand up and gain applause!
Paul DeLoca
23 Sep 2024 Leave a comment
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Sarah Moussa
Own it!
Own the fact that you are different.
Own that you are a deep feeler and thinker.
Own the fact that you are tuned into a different frequency.
Own and the fact that you sense things others don’t.
Own the fact that you want to talk about angels, energy, miracles and spirituality.
Own that you’re done having meaningless conversations.
Own that you’re done holding yourself back.
Own that you crave freedom to feel the now.
It’s ok if your family don’t get you.
It’s ok if the world judges you.
It’s ok that you want to dance barefoot upon the earth and endlessly gaze at the stars.
It’s ok that you cry over sunsets and chase moonbeams.
It’s wonderful in fact.
It’s beautiful.
You have come a long way to be who you are.
So own it.
Own all of it.
Love all of you.
The world needs you to be exactly as you are.
You hold the balance in this crazy world.
~Eryka Stanton
21 Sep 2024 1 Comment
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It isn’t just his productivity that has made King one of the top-earning authors in the world. He has been years ahead of other writers on technology — in 2000, he started publishing some of his work online only, at a time when e-books were virtually unknown. He routinely turns down big advances, but instead of royalties, he splits the profits from his books 50-50 with the publishers. And while most publishers purchase book rights for 70 years after the author’s death, King allows them just 15 years after publication, which guarantees that the publishers work hard to sell his books, since he can find someone else if the deal isn’t working.
King’s novels include Salem’s Lot (1975), The Shining (1977), Cujo (1981), Pet Sematary (1993), It (1986), The Green Mile (2000), the Dark Tower series (1982-2012), and published this month, Doctor Sleep (2013).
King said, “If you wrote something for which someone sent you a check, if you cashed the check and it didn’t bounce, and if you then paid the light bill with the money, I consider you talented.”
And he said: “I just write about what scares me. When I was a kid, my mother used to say, ‘Think of the worst thing that you can, and if you say it out loud then it won’t come true.’ And that’s probably been the basis of my career.”
20 Sep 2024 Leave a comment
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I despised walking naked into a shower with other young men. I still do. After I graduated, I made it a point not to join other naked men to take showers. When invited, I have declined. If this is a favorite activity of yours, I do not judge. For some men, this may be the high point of the week. Don’t say this is self-loathing on my part because it isn’t: it’s the other men I loathe, not myself. And it’s not homophobia. I have many gay male friends and they do not undress when they come to my home. I am perfectly okay taking a shower by myself or with my wife on very rare occasions such as my 70th and 80th birthdays, the Feast Day of the Assumption in August and on October 27, the day on which Jack Morris pitched the Minnesota Twins to a 1-0 victory in the 7thgame of the 1991 World Series.
Garrison Keillor
9/20/24
20 Sep 2024 Leave a comment
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Teacher
I knew I was a teacher when I was 7 years old.
I taught my 2 years younger brother and 3 cousins near his age.
We were like cub scouts working for our merit badges.
Favorite crafts: weaving and building.
The little troop played outdoors and maintained the plants and gardening.
What I did, they copied.
This served me with a teaching method that worked.
Even when I had students from 13 countries, I didn’t need their languages since since we worked with art, art that was sewn, spoken and loved.
It worked with all levels: primary through College.And that was successful for 50 years.
The teacher was a “Vibrant Channeled Creator.
@ the Quicksilver Studio and in the classroom…
Jeanne Poland @ Quicksilver Studio
9/19/24
05 Sep 2024 Leave a comment
in Poetry Tags: 9 lives, cat mentor, Eighteen, lives, mentor, Mother, young

A cat who is a mother while she mentors
has eighteen lives
her own and the lives of her young.