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Aging

5

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

Listening

4

When Someone Deeply Listens to You
On The Ridge
A Language You Once Knew
Being A Person

Vulnerability

4

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

Emotions

15

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
Authenticity
A Letter In Return

Guidance

23

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

Silence

4

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

Hope

19

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
Begin Anew
Authenticity
Self-Portrait as Root Vegetable
A Portable Paradise
When I am Among the Trees
Hope
Always We Hope
Things don’t happen for a reason

Strength

10

She Let Go
Access Road
I Will Not Die an Unlived Life
Let Me Be A Rose Today
Nuclear Radiology, 6th Floor
breathe
The Bell and the Blackbird
Hello, Fear
The Trough
With Astonishing Tenderness

Grief

8

Do Not Wipe Your Tears Away
The River Cannot Go Back
For Keeps
Are You Looking for Me?
The Wild Edge of Sorrow
Reaching for a Rose
To One In Sorrow
A Letter In Return

Love

20

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
Admit
Amidah Gift September 4, 2020
Of Tenderness
Unity
Admit
Prayer for the New Year
The Journey
Falling In
The Thing Is
Below Our Strangenes
Send Love, It Matters

Gratitude

26

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
How The Light Comes
Over The Weather
My Work
Let your Life be your Art
Your Natural Soul
Over the Weather
Old Friends
The Unbroken
You Could Have Given Up
The Cure For It All

Change

9

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
Otherwise
Unconditional
The Real Work

Joy

17

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
Joy
Awareness Knowing Itself
Prayer for the New Year
The Ponds
So Much Happiness
Singing Bowl
Working Together
The Poet Dreams of the Mountain

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
Are You Looking for Me?
If You Knew

Blessing

17

The Art of Blessing the Day
Invitation
A Party for the Broken
Blessing the Boats
Late Summer
The Quiet Power
Snow Geese
How the Light Comes In
Belonging
Blessing
Cargo
The Inner History of a Day
When We Breathe Together
Beannacht / Blessing
Grace
The Bridge
This is What I Have to Say to You

Living With Cancer/Chronic Illness

4

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

Kindness

1

Small Kindnesses

Resilience

4

Rising to Resilience
Authenticity
The Art of Disappearing
Things Don’t Happen for a Reason

Ritual

1

The five elements of a lit candle

Peace and Justice

2

Taking sides
Israel Palestine: See No Stranger

Authenticity

1

Authenticity

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The five elements of a lit candle Silence quote by Cynthia Bourgeault