If you're feeling stymied or stuck in your creative life, today's video is for you. I take a quick look at the immense challenges faced by Irish creators in the 17th and 18th centuries and then offer three empowering lessons for us from the way they navigated and ultimately overcame the immense challenges of their [...]
To celebrate this first day of May, here's a beautiful old Irish poem that adores every aspect of the burgeoning world, as well as discussion of an Irish custom I practice every year: leaving out a gift on May Eve for "them" as they pass. You'll see the result of this yearly tradition, and I [...]
In this, our final week of the 2024 Celebration, we enjoy poems of love and renewal by our marvelous community poets, I reveal the prize-winners, and I share some poems of world-love to keep us going throughout the year of poetry to come. Thank you to all of you for your company and for your [...]
This week, our brilliant community poets share love poems and inspiration as well as a trove of fantastic haikus that gave rise to adventure in the world, and we hear two poems by beloved poets that give us our SPARK for the week – to write a poem in which love sparks renewal. Our DARE [...]
This week, our community poets claim their poetry, I give an update on my day with the brilliant and hilarious 7th graders, and you’ll hear two poems about loving fathers that give us our SPARK, and of course, there’s a rather daring DARE. If you'd like to participate, please send me your poems (1-7: your [...]
Welcome back, my friends! This week, you’ll hear wonderful poems by our community poets, two gorgeous love poems, you’ll receive a fresh SPARK and a DARE, you'll see the wonderful Jumping Fox Design notebook we'll be giving away to some lucky prize-winners, and you’ll learn about our exciting new sponsor: Dana Wilde and the PME [...]
Do you ever have a spell of time where, either because you're busy or because you fall into one of life's mysterious boggy patches, you lose track of what most brings you to life? This happened to me recently. April's poetry celebration kept me on the hop, as well as the millions of projects [...]
I love sharing these proverbs with you! Here's today's proverb: D’ordaigh Dia cúnamh. This one is small enough to carry in your pocket and vast enough to affect your whole perspective. These proverbs are a gift from tradition. In a sense, they ARE like well-worn pebbles, carried in a pocket by countless people over decades [...]
Last year I read a lot of books I loved and I wanted to share the list with you in case there is one or two you might want to investigate yourself. I keep a reading log (which turns out to be an alternative sort of diary - a diary of interests and whims, side-journeys [...]
Once upon a time, I - and perhaps the vast majority of human beings who have ever lived - thought if people could just see things my way, the world would be a lot better. I'm a tree-kissing liberal, pantheist (as in, it's all holy), well-wishing, pro-education, art-loving person. To me, my views are so [...]
