A. R. Ammons:

“It’s okay to do less when you are coping with more.” ~Unknown

perfection

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“I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me.”

― Roland Barthes

Spent some time at Birka gravesite Bj 581 today. The new interpretive center profile on this viking warrior was really well done.

Do you agree?

Mary Oliver:

William Stafford • The Way It Is

Naomi Shihab Nye:

Today's Poetry Thread: CHOICES

'Softly, calmly, immensity taps at your life.'

Feel free to add poems.

Maggie Smith:

Pretty awesome northern lights show in Alaska last night! Here are some highlights.

'People assume you can't be hopeful and heartbroken at the same time, and of course you can.  In times when everything is fine hope is unnecessary.  Hope is not happiness or confidence or inner peace; it's a commitment to search for possibilities.'
--Rebecca Solnit

“Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.”

—bell hooks

Love the shout out from Alaskan educators! Thank you National Institute for Excellence in Teaching

Today's Poetry Thread: WONDER

'I ask not in sorrow, but in wonder.' Feel free to add poems.

'Love,'
Daniel Nadler

Love,
the skeleton of a ship on the seabed
takes water as its flesh

I haven’t been able to stop thinking about this one…