I put this poem up on my mirror in Graduate School so that I would encounter it every morning. It is stuffed now in the front of my journal so that it falls out every time I write – it is a reminder for my hope of becoming a great poem.
Posts from ‘April, 2008’
To Be of Use – Poem by Marge Piercy
To be of use The people I love the best jump into work head first without dallying in the shallows and swim off with sure strokes almost out of sight. They seem to become natives of that element, the black sleek heads of seals bouncing like half submerged balls.
Desmond Tutu on Compassion
I heard this excerpt on the radio this morning – filled with laughter as Desmond Tutu spoke of teaching and talking compassion with children:
12 Reasons I Want People To Read This Book
The Book: The Shock Doctrine: the Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein Just because I believe every voter in the USA should read this book – required Because this is some of the best investigative reporting I have ever read
