Anyone who says, “Here’s my address, write me a poem,” deserves something in reply. So I’ll tell you … - Naomi Shihab Nye

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The brain remembers the emotional component of an experience better than any other aspect.

Naomi Shihab Nye

Anyone who says, “Here’s my address, write me a poem,” deserves something in reply. So I’ll tell you a secret instead: poems hide. In the bottoms of our shoes, they are sleeping. They are the shadows drifting across our ceilings the moment before we wake up. What we have to do is live in a way that lets us find them.

Drifting, Says, Shoes, Sleep, Writing

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I want to be someone making music
with my coming.

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The writing of Kathleen McGookey shines more brightly than most fine things we feel pleasure to read. Celebrate it!

Brightly, Kathleen, Pleasure, Shines, Shining, Writing

Teaching and writing are separate, but serve
feed one another in so many ways. Writing travels the road inward, teaching, the road out - helping OTHERS move inward - it is an honor to be with others in the spirit of writing and encouragement.

Encouragement, Inward, Moving, Road, Teaching

I Still Have Everything You Gave Me It is dusty on the edges. It is slightly rotten. I guard it without thinking. I focus on it once a year when I shake it out in the wind. I do not ache. I would not trade.

Edges, Everything, Rotten, Thinking, Wind, Years

For you who came so far; for you who held out, wearing a black scarf to signify grief; for you who believe true love can find you amidst this atlas of tears linking one town to its own memory of mortar, when it was still a dream to be built and people moved there, believing, and someone with sky and birds in his heart said this would be a good place for a park.

Amidst, Birds, Dream, Grief, Memories, Wearing