Consider this : you have what you need to stay afloat
-Emma: As you embark on this journey, this transition,Don't try to be and just be. Feel the fear, cry the tears, smile for what is yet to comeAnd for the memories you've already made.Let yourself flounder; don't try to have all the answers.Because you won't.Explore.Experiment.Dream.Live.You're on your own timeline, you …
Consider this : things will flow as they will.
I am gathering wisdom from the far corners of the earth to give Emma as she graduates from high school. What would you say to her? Or to your own 17-year-old self? What thoughts would you ask her to consider? You can submit your advice (instructions here) and 37 of …
a lanyard for mothers
To celebrate Mother's Day, a perfect tribute from none other than poet Billy Collins. To those who are or have been mothers, those who now have or had mothers in the past, and simply to all those who mother, a lanyard.
Consider this : never, ever dim your light
My older daughter, Emma, has grown up in the pages of this blog. Now 17, she will graduate from high school in just 37 days.To soothe my fast beating heart at the prospect of that, I am gathering wisdom from the far corners of the earth to give to her …
thinking thursday.
Welcome to Thinking Thursday. Every Thursday, some links tracing my tracks across the web and a gratuitous link (or twelve) to Johnny Depp thrown in. And because my business partner David Robinson and I have recently decided to refocus our attention primarily on K-12 and teacher education over the next …
poetry wednesday : it felt love
It Felt Love How Did the rose Ever open its heart And give to this world All its Beauty? It felt the encouragement of light Against its Being, Otherwise, We all remain Too Frightened. -Hafiz A man named Joe found 37days this week by following a search for a poem …
A new (free) e-book in the making : Consider This.
It seems unreal, this last mad dash to the end of Emma's high school career. In just a few short weeks, she will be donning a cap and gown and walking across a stage that represents so much to her, to me, to us. I know every parent feels this …
sunday sounds : leave everything you know behind
Stare into the lake, astonished. (As part of Wordfest in Asheville this week, poet David Whyte will present a lecture and workshop on Saturday, May 8th).
simple action saturday : let them choose
Ah, today is senior prom day in our house. It is the last senior prom–the dress! the hair! the nails! the teetering heels!–that we will celebrate until the year 2021 when Tess is a high school senior and I am 105 years old. As Emma and I entered into Prom …
poetry 30 : what else can a mother give her daughter but such beautiful rifts in time?
And so, a month of poetry comes to an end. This time, each day in April, a poem by a woman. And we will end as we began, with a poem by Eavan Boland, this one about a pomegranate. And a daughter. I hope we can all find ways–in every …
