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Poetry Mornings at Centering Space
Join Kim at Centering Space for reflection and discovery.
Welcome to Word SPA - Spirituality, Poetry, Appreciation
WordSPA is a ministry of personal expansion through the spiritual catalyst of poetry, entering into the sacred moment in a spirit of fun, of hope, and of gratitude for what is, the daily grind and the sacred moment. We believe with Mary Oliver, that “Poetry is a life-cherishing force. For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something as necessary as bread in the pockets of the hungry.” Whether you want to learn to lead Spiritual Poetry Circles, or you'd like to bring Kim in to lead an experience for your group, this is a place for both diving deep and resting awhile.
WordSpa Update (Posted to Facebook on June 17, 2017 at 03:31PM)
Grateful for another amazing morning at centering space of poems gathered around the theme of being grateful in the now. We had 20 participants and lively conversation. If you were unable to join us the handouts from this session including the poems that we discussed we’ll go up in about…
Wordspa – Spirituality, Poetry, and Appreciation
Link: Wordspa – Spirituality, Poetry, and Appreciation – There is still time to register for the poetry circle next Saturday, June 17. I am reducing the number of circles that I can facilitate in order to devote more time to the book! This may be the last one for 6…
Poetry as Prelude to Prayer
Link: Poetry as Prelude to Prayer – This delights me. I am not sure that such an article would have been written15 years ago. This is a lovely reflection by Dana Greene in the context of Christian prayer, but if you are seeker on another path, I believe that this…
WordSpa Photo Update (Posted to Facebook on May 29, 2017 at 02:10PM)
The Bookstall Just looking at them I grow greedy, as if they were freshly baked loaves waiting on their shelves to be broken open—that one and that—and I make my choice in a mood of exalted luck, browsing among them like a cow in sweetest pasture. For life is continuous…
WordSpa Update (Posted to Facebook on May 10, 2017 at 09:20AM)
Welcome to new LIKE John Lucic! Glad to have you in the conversation!
WordSpa Photo Update (Posted to Facebook on May 02, 2017 at 04:46PM)
The First Green of Spring by David Budbill Listen Online Out walking in the swamp picking cowslip, marsh marigold, this sweet first green of spring. Now sautéed in a pan melting to a deeper green than ever they were alive, this green, this life, harbinger of things to come. Now…
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Link: http://ift.tt/SfFIlG – Most of you know I’m working on a book on how poetry can help to build resilience in us in the face of grief. In the course of reading for the writing I found this piece and it’s one of the most poetic pieces of prose I’ve…
Tony Hoagland
Link: Tony Hoagland – Here’s a quote from an interesting interview by Tony Hoagland, the Poet who wrote Fetch. Fetch was our post on Wednesday, and if you missed it, it’s a treasure. Hoagland said, “Someone gave me a contemporary poetry anthology when I was 15, and reading it may…
WordSpa Photo Update (Posted to Facebook on April 26, 2017 at 04:33PM)
Fetch Who knew that the sweetest pleasure of my fifty-eighth year would turn out to be my friendship with the dog? That his trembling, bowlegged bliss at seeing me stand there with the leash would give me a feeling I had sought throughout my life? Now I understand those old…
WordSpa Photo Update (Posted to Facebook on April 24, 2017 at 12:03AM)
A Prayer in Spring Oh, give us pleasure in the flowers today; And give us not to think so far away As the uncertain harvest; keep us here All simply in the springing of the year. Oh, give us pleasure in the orchard white, Like nothing else by day, like…