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  • Originally posted on She Says Yes: Hello to all my fellow New Yorkers, tri-staters, out of town friends, and all of you who have been impacted by Hurricane Sandy. Although I’m grateful that my son and I and our immediate family were spared the worst of Sandy’s wrath, I have several dear friends whose homes…

  • Vote to Express Yourself

    I vote to express myself. I vote to hope for a great future. I vote because I can. What about you? A favorite inspiring author, poet Alice Walker reads her own poem about voting to Amy Goodman in this video: In my own family, my parents always voted – not always for the same candidates – and…

  • Natural Supernatural Love Poems

    Have you carried unfinished things around with you from place to place, and hoped to make something new out of them? This spring, looking at the two shelves of handwritten, typed, bound, loose and even tattered poems and drawings that I’ve carried from childhood through a dozen moves, I had to do something about it. And…

  • Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and NYC Subway Exits

    If a person had the desire to save someone, like an angel who arrives and keeps a soul among the living just before the inevitable descent into eternal darkness or the journey to the place of light – they have only to travel the New York City subway at about 8:30 in the morning on…

  • Rage, Riots and Revolution

    “Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.” C. G. Jung Not all of us have been in a riot or been in a revolution. But who has not known rage at some point? I am unsettled even remembering that I have had moments of rage in…