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What creates empathy?

Posted on Nov 21st, 2009 by Laura : graceriver Laura

I don't know. I think it was more of a learned phenomenon for me than something that was a n innate, intuitively felt part of how I moved through life as a child and young... More »

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questionable haiku

Posted on Mar 13th, 2009 by Laura : graceriver Laura

Lately I've been playing around with this haiku magnetic poetry kit I got recently. I've been putting the words together kind of instinctively, not terribly quickly but not without a lot of deep thought. it's... More »

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little time

Posted on Jan 8th, 2009 by Laura : graceriver Laura

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else. --Emily Dickinson

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What is your idea of heaven?

Posted on Dec 14th, 2008 by Laura : graceriver Laura

Awakening to the truth that, as Byron Katie says, THIS is paradise. It's hard to internalize. It takes practice. Practice. and more practice. and learning how to breathe. but I believe it. I also like... More »

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sleeping and dreaming

Posted on Dec 11th, 2008 by Laura : graceriver Laura

We have to sleep with open eyes; we must dream with our hands. --Octavio Paz

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rock and far views

Posted on Nov 28th, 2008 by Laura : graceriver Laura

Arriving Again and Again Without Noticing I remember all the different kinds of years. Angry, or brokenhearted, or afraid. I remember feeling like that walking up the mountain along the dirt path to my broken... More »

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full of the mystery

Posted on Nov 9th, 2008 by Laura : graceriver Laura

I found this poem in an old issue of Ploughshares from 1998. Invocation You came to me first as dawn hauled up on ropes of apricot above the blackened wall of white pine. You came... More »

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The Seeds of Soup and Seasons

Posted on Nov 1st, 2008 by Laura : graceriver Laura

  The seeds of all my seasons come together in a soup of something I could once taste but hold now in my mouth like water. They grow up out of themselves  into a recipe... More »

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What have you been paying attention to?

Posted on Aug 16th, 2008 by Laura : graceriver Laura

Language---how it comes together or doesn't in the hunks of it my students hand me at the start of the year. what I can see in between the bad spelling and invented words and run-on... More »

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a life attended

Posted on Jul 30th, 2008 by Laura : graceriver Laura

A self is made, not given. It is a creative and active process of attending a life that must  be heard, shaped, seen, said aloud into the world, finally enacted and woven into the lives... More »

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