Category: on Self

  • In Unity with Inspiration

    (This piece was originally sent as an email to friends and family on the 2008 morning after seeing candidates Obama and Clinton in Unity, NH. My 12-year-old son took the photos.) ~for the children 4:30 am Saturday, June 28, 2008 Marlboro, Vermont Dear Community of ALL, Yesterday, I had the great privilege of attending a…

  • Touching the Heart of Childhood~ a visit with poetry teacher extraordinaire~ Ann Gengarelly

    “If we forget poetry, we will forget ourselves.” Octavia Paz Most know Ann Gengarelly through the children– and the poetry they write– under her care.  These poems have traveled from the hearts of families and friends in her home state of Vermont–to the floor of the United States Senate, where “Distance,”  a student’s poem about…