POEM: “Small Kindnesses,” by Danusha Laméris

POEM: “Small Kindnesses,” by Danusha Laméris

by | Mar 22, 2020 | inspiration, poem

I’ve been thinking about the way, when you walk down a crowded aisle, people pull in their legs to let you by. Or how strangers still say “bless you” when someone sneezes, a leftover from the Bubonic plague. “Don’t die,” we are saying. And sometimes, when you spill...
Poem: “Pandemic,” by Lynn Ungar

Poem: “Pandemic,” by Lynn Ungar

by | Mar 15, 2020 | inspiration, poem

What if you thought of it as the Jews consider the Sabbath— the most sacred of times? Cease from travel. Cease from buying and selling. Give up, just for now, on trying to make the world different than it is. Sing. Pray. Touch only those to whom you commit your life....
POEM: ”It is Not Your Job,” by Caitlyn Siehl

POEM: ”It is Not Your Job,” by Caitlyn Siehl

by | Mar 8, 2020 | inspiration, poem

when your little girl asks you if she’s pretty your heart will drop like a wineglass on the hardwood floor part of you will want to say of course you are, don’t ever question it and the other part the part that is clawing at you will want to grab her by her shoulders...
POEM: “Hope,” by Lisel Mueller

POEM: “Hope,” by Lisel Mueller

by | Feb 28, 2020 | inspiration, poem

It hovers in dark corners before the lights are turned on, it shakes sleep from its eyes and drops from mushroom gills, it explodes in the starry heads of dandelions turned sages, it sticks to the wings of green angels that sail from the tops of maples. It sprouts in...