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Aging

5
  • New Life
  • Aging
  • Becoming an Elder
  • Monet Refuses The Operation
  • Rising to Resilience
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Listening

2
  • When Someone Deeply Listens to You
  • On The Ridge
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Vulnerability

4
  • Embers: One Ojibway’s Meditations
  • Allow
  • All That’s Ahead of Me
  • Alone
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Emotions

13
  • The Guest House
  • Allow
  • Praise the Rain
  • Breaking Surface
  • This Poem Should Be A Circle
  • Imperfection
  • The Stars Are Confused
  • The Way It Is (Rosemerry Trommer)
  • Sweet Darkness
  • Trough
  • The Quiet Power
  • A Different Holding Pattern
  • Fire
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Guidance

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  • In the Sea of Others 
  • The Way It Is (William Stafford)
  • The Clearing
  • Allow
  • Access Road
  • Breaking Surface
  • Sacred Ground
  • For When People Ask
  • For Presence
  • Do It Anyway
  • This Poem Should Be A Circle
  • All That’s Ahead of Me
  • Alone
  • The Stars Are Confused
  • Things don’t happen for a reason 
  • The Journey
  • The Way It Is (Rosemerry Trommer)
  • Sweet Darkness
  • Trough
  • The Quiet Power
  • A Different Holding Pattern
  • Fire
  • Instructions for the Journey
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Silence

4
  • Keeping Quiet
  • Paradox of Noise
  • Blessings for the Chaos
  • Silence quote by Cynthia Bourgeault
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Hope

11
  • I Hope You Dance
  • Access Road
  • You Reading This, Be Ready
  • New Life
  • Imperfection
  • Angels
  • The Stars Are Confused
  • The Journey
  • The Way It Is (Rosemerry Trommer)
  • Fire
  • Rising to Resilience
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Strength

5
  • She Let Go
  • Access Road
  • I Will Not Die an Unlived Life 
  • Let Me Be A Rose Today
  • Nuclear Radiology, 6th Floor
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Grief

4
  • Do Not Wipe Your Tears Away
  • The River Cannot Go Back
  • For Keeps
  • Are You Looking for Me?
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Love

9
  • Accepting This
  • When Giving Is All We Have
  • The Most Important Thing
  • Love After Love
  • Let Love Go
  • Wild Geese
  • Bioluminescence
  • The Facts of Life
  • The facts of life
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Gratitude

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  • Summer Heat
  • Keeping Quiet
  • Sacred Ground
  • For When People Ask
  • You Reading This, Be Ready
  • How to belong Be Alone
  • Imperfection
  • There Is No Going Back
  • When Giving Is All We Have
  • Let Me Be A Rose Today
  • The Dash Poem
  • The Art of Blessing the Day
  • Invitation
  • Hold Out Your Hand
  • Yes
  • Rising to Resilience
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Change

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  • I Will Not Die an Unlived Life 
  • For the Interim Time
  • New Life
  • When Death Comes
  • Things don’t happen for a reason 
  • The Facts of Life
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Joy

9
  • For When People Ask
  • How to belong Be Alone
  • The Most Important Thing
  • Angels
  • Love After Love
  • A Party for the Broken
  • Bioluminescence
  • Hold Out Your Hand
  • Holidays
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Death and Dying

12
  • The River Cannot Go Back
  • There Is No Going Back
  • For Keeps
  • When Death Comes
  • The Dash Poem
  • On Grief
  • In Blackwater Woods
  • Talking to Grief
  • For Those Who Have Died
  • Your Grief  
  • The Unbroken
  • Are You Looking for Me?
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Blessing

4
  • The Art of Blessing the Day
  • Invitation
  • A Party for the Broken
  • Blessing the Boats
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Living With Cancer/Chronic Illness

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  • Nuclear Radiology, 6th Floor
  • They Said To Go Home
  • for a friend, on the arrival of illness
  • Rising to Resilience
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Kindness

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  • Small Kindnesses
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Resilience

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  • Rising to Resilience
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Ritual

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  • The five elements of a lit candle
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  • Blessing

Blessing

  • The Art of Blessing the Day
  • Invitation
  • A Party for the Broken
  • Blessing the Boats

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