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Remind Us How To Be Brave: Poetry From Rosemerry Trommer

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Remind Us How To Be Brave: Poetry From Rosemerry Trommer

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Jennifer Wolfe, a writer-teacher-mom, is dedicated to finding the extraordinary in the ordinary moments of life by thinking deeply, loving fiercely, and teaching audaciously. Read her stories on her blog, mamawolfe at jenniferwolfe.net.
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Remind Us How To Be Brave: I discovered these beautiful words to remind us how to be brave on A First Sip.  After this week, the uprising in hate group empowerment, the reactions of our president, and the murder of an innocent woman, many of us are struggling with how to be brave. What does […]

I Don’t Want To Live A Small Life: Poetry by Mary Oliver

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I Don’t Want To Live A Small Life: Poetry by Mary Oliver

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I don’t want to live a small life. Open your eyes, open your hands.   I have just come from the berry fields, the sun kissing me with its golden mouth all the way (open your hands) and the wind-winged clouds following along thinking perhaps I might feed them, but no I carry these heart-shapes only to you. Look […]

Paying Attention

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Paying Attention

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Paying attention requires no equipment, no special clothes, no greens fees or personal trainers. You do not even have to be in particularly good shape. All you need is a body on this earth, willing to notice where it is, trusting that even something as small as a hazelnut can become an altar in this […]

Wherever You Are Is Called Here: Poetry from David Wagoner

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Wherever You Are Is Called Here: Poetry from David Wagoner

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Stand still. The trees ahead and bushes beside you Are not lost. Wherever you are is called Here, And you must treat it as a powerful stranger, Must ask permission to know it and be known. The forest breathes. Listen. It answers, I have made this place around you. If you leave it, you may […]

Finding The Extraordinary In The Not-So-Ordinary November Moments

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Finding The Extraordinary In The Not-So-Ordinary November Moments

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Jennifer Wolfe, a writer-teacher-mom, is dedicated to finding the extraordinary in the ordinary moments of life by thinking deeply, loving fiercely, and teaching audaciously. Read her stories on her blog, mamawolfe at jenniferwolfe.net.
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November 2016 is certainly going to be etched in my memory for a long time to come…our presidential election rocked the country and has left me feeling unsettled, unstable and unsure about how my life – and the lives of most Americans-will be altered. Before the election, I shared my thoughts about Donald Trump in […]