Theme/Mantra: “I will rise up. All we need is hope, and for that we have one another.” Reading: Poem of the One World by Mary Oliver This...

Theme/Mantra: “Sometimes, it is enough” Reading: Sometimes by Sheenagh Pugh Sometimes things don’t go, after all, from bad to worse. Some...

Theme/Mantra: “Practice Love” Reading: The Love Cook by Ron Padgett Let me cook you some dinner. Sit down and take off your shoes and...

Theme/Mantra: “There is still a lot of love” Reading: The State of the Economy by Louis Jenkins There might be some change on top of the...

Theme/Mantra: “Pause. Breathe. Deep Breath. Again.” Reading: Afraid So by Jeanne Marie Beaumont Is it starting to rain? Did the check...

Theme/Mantra: “What have I got?” Reading: After Work by Richard Jones Coming up from the subway into the cool Manhattan evening, I feel...

Theme/Mantra: “Teach me empathy” Reading: What I learned From my Mother by Julia Kasdorf I learned from my mother how to love the living,...

Theme/Mantra: “What/Who must I look AT today? (rather than AWAY) Reading: Like they Say by Robert Creeley Underneath the tree on some...

Theme/Mantra: “Moving in Freedom” Reading: Naked by Jennifer Michael Hecht The reason you so often in literature have a naked woman walk...

Theme/Mantra: “I move in hopeful expectancy today.” Reading: Dawn Revisited by Rita Dove Imagine you wake up with a second chance: The...

Theme/Mantra: “I am filled with love and goodness” Reading: The Three Goals by David Budbill The first goal is to see the thing itself in...

Theme/Mantra: “I will hold on hope” Reading: Lending Out Books by Hal Sirowitz You’re always giving, my therapist said. You have to learn...

Theme/Mantra: “I have made mistakes, let me learn from them. (Nothing is wasted if it’s human.)” Reading: The Bladder Song by Nathan...

Theme/Mantra: “Today I am going to intentionally just BE” Reading: Her First Calf by Wendell Berry Her fate seizes her and brings her...

Theme/Mantra: “Sometimes floating is enough, (even enjoyable).” Reading: The Orange by Wendy Cope At lunchtime I bought a huge orange—...

Theme/Mantra: “What lines must I dare to cross today?” Reading: A Walk Along the Old Tracks by Robert Kinsley when I was young they had...

Theme/Mantra: “Power, my Power- is for the sake of becoming fully ME- (not for the sake of controlling others).” Reading: Dilemma by...

Theme/Mantra: “I come from the Earth. I am part of her.” Reading: Lost by David Wagoner Stand still. The trees ahead and bushes beside...

Theme/Mantra: “I can dance even in a hurricane, if I stand in the eye” Reading: High Water Mark by David Shumate It’s hard to believe,...

Theme/Mantra: “What am I? What will I be?” Reading: Hoeing by John Updike I sometimes fear the younger generation will be deprived of the...