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Friday, May 17, 2024

Poetry Friday: If You Know, You Know

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It's Saturday morning here in Uganda, but it's still Friday some places, so here's my Poetry Friday contribution. If You Know, Y...
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Tuesday, May 14, 2024

Reading Update

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Book #27 of 2024 was The Vacationers , by Emma Straub. I thought this was entertaining. Book #28 was The Lazy Genius Way , by Kendra Adach...
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Thursday, April 25, 2024

Poetry Friday: NPM Day 26: Roundup and Dreaming of Haiti

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Welcome to today's Poetry Friday roundup! Please leave your links in the comments and I will round them up the old-fashioned way. I have...
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Wednesday, April 17, 2024

NPM 2024: Day 17

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There's no mystery about why these tabs are open on my desktop: they're bird poems! (I'm spring-cleaning open tabs this NPM, try...
Monday, April 15, 2024

NPM 2024: Day 16

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During NPM this year, I'm spring-cleaning my desktop, and getting rid of tabs that have been open too long. I found two poems about grie...

NPM 2024: Day 15

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This  "Ode to Teachers," by Pat Mora , has been open on my desktop for a while. It starts like this:   I remember the first day,...
Saturday, April 13, 2024

NPM 2024: Day 13

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I've been posting somewhat less than daily during this National Poetry Month, doing some spring-cleaning of poetic links that are open o...
Thursday, April 11, 2024

Reading Update

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Book #21 of the year was Emily P. Freeman's latest book, How to Walk Into a Room: The Art of Knowing When to Stay and When to Walk Away...
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Wednesday, April 10, 2024

NPM 2024: Day 11

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This morning (Thursday) I'm going back to work after an Easter break that got extended an extra day by Eid being a day later than the ca...
Tuesday, April 09, 2024

NPM 2024: Day 10

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Today I'd like to share a Jim Daniels poem that has been open on my desktop for a long while. (That's what I'm doing this NPM: s...

NPM 2024: Day 9

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I'm not sure how long this poem has been open on my desktop. It was posted on the Writer's Almanac in 2008, but I'm sure I haven...
Monday, April 08, 2024

NPM 2024: Day 8 - The Progressive Poem is Here!

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  I've participated in the Progressive Poem every year starting with the first one in 2012. I was thinking that this year was my earlies...
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Saturday, April 06, 2024

SJT: Everyday Miracles and NPM 2024: Day 6

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We went away for a few days and although I had scheduled some posts for while I was gone, I missed this month's SJT (Spiritual Journey T...
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Wednesday, April 03, 2024

NPM 2024: Day 4

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I've had the Billy Collins poem "Birds of America" open on my desktop for a while. (During NPM I'm spring-cleaning tabs th...
Tuesday, April 02, 2024

NPM 2024: Day 3

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Sarah Kay's poem "Jakarta, January" was very relatable to me when I first read it, I don't know when, and kept it open on ...
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NPM 2024: Day 2

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It's a gloomy, gray/grey morning here in Kampala, but it's a holiday from work, so I'm appreciating it anyway. Today's link ...
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Monday, April 01, 2024

It's National Poetry Month!

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It's April, and that means National Poetry Month! I am not planning to do daily posts this year, but I do hope to post slightly more tha...
Friday, March 29, 2024

Poetry Friday, Good Friday

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We met in Kampala to remember the cross. A series of readers read the story aloud in a series of accents. Gray Parrots flew overhead, their ...
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Thursday, March 21, 2024

Poetry Friday: Bird Heart

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  I was looking at an Antillean Mango in my yard on Delmas 83 in Port-au-Prince one day four years ago, right at the moment when the news ca...
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Sunday, March 10, 2024

Reading Update

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Book #13 of the year was  Stone Blind , by Natalie Haynes. It's the story of Medusa, and it's weird and great.   Book #14 was Life...
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I've been privileged to live in three of the world's great cities (Nairobi, Port-au-Prince and Asunción, Paraguay) as well as spending time in many others (including nine weeks in Paris as a college student). I just moved to a new city: Kampala, Uganda. I've also lived in smaller towns in three countries. In all of those places there have been difficult days, but I've never found a city or town yet where God is not, and I don't anticipate finding one in the future, either. The name of my blog comes from the song "Love is Always There," by Carolyn Arends.
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