tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86550772024-03-19T08:23:03.365-05:00Frugal Poet's Guide to LifePoet, dramatist & nonfiction writer Cynthia Gallaher Is author of the memoir, how-to & reference "Frugal Poets' Guide to Life: How to Live a Poetic Life, Even If You Aren't a Poet," which won a National Indie Excellence Award. The Chicago Public Library lists her among the "Top Ten Requested Chicago Poets." Cynthia Gallaherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04528052139106896290noreply@blogger.comBlogger246125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8655077.post-91899057755701306792023-07-31T09:21:00.006-05:002023-07-31T12:40:11.815-05:00How poetry launched my advertising day job<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKNLRXkEVTv36EBtgr2Dpb-4SOPxZ3qHX1ansl9GSZapqHCA4-v5AIiyvA0xetIFLgjypI0-bb-7ykOhsUev1rD0yM0Ew_kRWkbRWedUCkxo6HScvp-68IylVPGKr8BfgfeUR_WAGLIo6rPnOeZLi6DMPRFtZ-f03Xbqaut7ZX4JMmV5BuQnZ2VA/s600/Early-20th-Century-Typewriter-on-Steel-Dual-Drop-Leaf-Rolling-Typewriter-Table-1-600x600.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="600" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKNLRXkEVTv36EBtgr2Dpb-4SOPxZ3qHX1ansl9GSZapqHCA4-v5AIiyvA0xetIFLgjypI0-bb-7ykOhsUev1rD0yM0Ew_kRWkbRWedUCkxo6HScvp-68IylVPGKr8BfgfeUR_WAGLIo6rPnOeZLi6DMPRFtZ-f03Xbqaut7ZX4JMmV5BuQnZ2VA/w320-h320/Early-20th-Century-Typewriter-on-Steel-Dual-Drop-Leaf-Rolling-Typewriter-Table-1-600x600.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">I found this image of a typing table described as "antique." It is the same style of table and manual typewriter I used during my first advertising job at Marshall Field's!</span></i></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"><br />The recession was still raging after two years of my pushing around a book cart, wearing a smock at Marshall Field’s department store, post college graduation. There were no openings in the store’s art gallery as I had hoped. My thoughts of becoming a gallery or museum curator were quickly evaporating.</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;">One of the exciting aspects of working in the book department was its regular public book signings, hosting such luminaries as novelist Gore Vidal, hairstylist Vidal Sassoon, conductor Sir Georg Solti, thinker and inventor Buckminster “Bucky” Fuller, baseball great Yogi Berra, former NYC Mayor John Lindsay, actor Bob Hope, chef Julia Child and many others. All arrived because each had just written a new book, be it fiction, a cookbook, autobiography or philosophy, giving my then callow self a chance to meet and interact with these successful writers from varied professions.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">In addition to customers, certain employees from different departments would often gather around to purchase books and get them signed by the visiting authors. Among the regulars was Mary Ann, the copy chief from Marshall Field’s advertising department, who I also greeted and chatted up a couple of times while she waited in line to get her books signed.</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">“Marshall Field’s has an advertising department?” I later asked one of my coworkers. “Where do you think all the newspaper ads come from?” one answered. “You mean all the ads in the Chicago Tribune and Sun-Times come out of here?” I said. “Yeah, they don’t use an ad agency. The advertising department is in-house,” she answered. A light went on.</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Before long, I found myself taking the escalators up to the advertising department on the 9<sup>th</sup> floor, holding a small sheaf of my poems. I asked the advertising department receptionist if I could see Mary Ann. When she came up to small waiting area, I stood and explained how I was interested in working in the advertising department as a copywriter if they had an opening.</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">“We don’t have any openings now,” Mary Ann said. “In fact, we just hired a new person.” I suppose I looked a little downcast, but mostly embarrassed. Was I out of my league here? “Do you have an advertising degree?” she asked.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">“I don’t,” I said. “I have a degree, but it’s in art history.”</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">“You don't have a degree in English?” she asked.</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">That smarted. What did I think I was doing up here! “I don’t have an English degree, but I’m a writer,” I said.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">“You’re a writer?” she asked, dubiously. “Do you have a portfolio?”</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">“I have written these poems,” I said. “Maybe you can read them.”</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">“Poems?!” she said, looking incredulous, but trying not to be rude at the same time. She let me hand them off to her as I extended the sheaf sheepishly her way.</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">“I appreciate you coming up here, and I know you’ve been working in the store for awhile, but I’m not sure poetry quite matches up with what we’re trying to accomplish with our advertising copy,” she said.</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I thanked her for her time, took the escalators back down to the book department and felt totally humiliated from making a fool of myself. I later avoided sitting anywhere near her if I saw her in the employee lunchroom, as I was embarrassed by any of my earlier suppositions that I’d be the least qualified to work in advertising. If I saw her getting onto an escalator, I waited until she was far enough away for me to get on, too, without her seeing me. And when she visited the book department on occasion, I gently tried to sashay the other way or find a reason to duck into the stock room.</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">One day, someone told me I had a call waiting on our interdepartmental phone. I walked over and picked up the receiver. It was Mary Ann. “Cynthia, can you come up to the advertising department sometime today,” she said. “I’d like to talk with you.”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">“Sure,” I said. “I have a break in another half hour. I’ll stop up.” I hung up and tried to catch my breath. What did she want to tell me? I didn’t know what to expect.</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">When I arrived up by the advertising reception desk, Mary Ann again came out to greet me. “We have an opening in the copy department,” she said. “Someone just left. She took a new job at an advertising agency.”</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">“She <i>did</i>?” I said, not knowing what else to say.</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">“I read your poems,” she said.</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">“You <i>did</i>?” I said, not ever feeling she would even glance at them after I had handed the sheaf off to her several weeks before.</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">“They’re actually quite good,” she said.</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">“They <i>are</i>?” I said.</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">“I think you have potential,” she said. “And because you already know the store so well after working here a couple of years, I’d like to give you a chance if you’re still interested.”</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">A chance? Yes. As a copywriter? Yes. Yes, I was still interested! I started a couple of weeks later, sitting at a desk and typewriter in a room among 10 other copywriters, an all-women staff from whom I learned so much, hung out with after work and formed friendships with. I wrote newspaper ads about shoes, jewelry, cosmetics, purses, lingerie, even books. What a thrill to see my copy in print in Chicago’s newspapers. Almost as exciting as seeing my poems in print (but not quite!).</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The break I received at Marshall Field’s was the start of my career as an advertising writer. This chance continually fueled my livelihood over the decades. It’s still hard for me to believe even today that a small sheaf of poems, but mostly a generous woman willing to take a chance on me, has made such a huge difference in my life. Thank you, Mary Ann!<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">If there’s anything I have to share with others about this experience is this: When breaks come, be there for them. When the desire of your heart fires up, follow it. When opportunities and meetings of people arise, follow through. As the songwriter Steve Winwood wrote, “While you see a chance, take it!” Not everyone or even anyone will have the same experience I did, but you will most definitely have your <i>own</i> experiences, your <i>own</i> chances, your <i>own</i> opportunities. Be humble but upfront in pursuing them. Make the most of them!</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>Excerpted from my creativity guide, memoir and reference "Frugal Poets' Guide to Life: How to Live a Poetic Life, Even If You Aren't a Poet" </i> </p>Cynthia Gallaherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04528052139106896290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8655077.post-71453369241997558962021-11-23T07:26:00.053-06:002021-11-23T08:00:13.119-06:00The night Robert Bly got "tarred-and-feathered"<p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> <i style="font-size: 12px;">“…my Chicago had its moments: the Surrealist attack on Robert Bly that ended in a fistfight and the arrival of police.” ~ Paul Hoover</i></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p class="p2" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">One four-below-zero winter’s night, I took the “el” train from my studio apartment in Chicago’s Edgewater neighborhood to the Body Politic in Lincoln Park. It was the mid-1970s. On that bone-chilling night, a high-impact though little known incident in Chicago poetry history took place.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYUIU1KFofb6aI319snfsu0QjAMUFTru-09plsndDzM69pn5m6S-tHwUjDD93W9qwErmsWvSugz07_hqp2CPYL7Yywa528q9eDkptkbwv25yVV175I5OJzKwiqtT9jFovyhEE8rw/s800/Poetry_Out_Loud_MN_finals_27.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><img border="0" data-original-height="532" data-original-width="800" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYUIU1KFofb6aI319snfsu0QjAMUFTru-09plsndDzM69pn5m6S-tHwUjDD93W9qwErmsWvSugz07_hqp2CPYL7Yywa528q9eDkptkbwv25yVV175I5OJzKwiqtT9jFovyhEE8rw/s320/Poetry_Out_Loud_MN_finals_27.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><p style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><span>An older poet from Minnesota, Robert Bly, was making a special appearance at the Yellow Press Readings at the Body Politic Theater. I had never heard of him before. In years hence, he became well known as the spearhead of the American men’s movement, and author of <i>Iron John: A Book About Men,</i> a national bestseller.<span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12px; text-align: start;">The room’s floodlights and brightly painted wall behind a small dais stage radiated welcome warmth against the bitterly cold night. But still shivering from my trip down there on the “el,” I kept my coat and cap on the rest of the evening. Before long, Robert Bly moved to the center of the dais. The lighting above Bly’s head appeared as bands of yellow, light orange and salmon enveloping the man in a fiery glow. He wore a loose-fitting white shirt and faded blue jeans. His white hair was mid-length and flowing, his face clean-shaven. A quiet comfort spread through the room as the frozen streets outside enclosed us in their silence.</span></p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p class="p2" style="clear: right; float: right; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p class="p2" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Bly began. I found his poetry accessible, nature-driven, and dealing quite a bit with his home state, Minnesota. Unlike other readers, and in the fashion of a teacher, he repeated each brief poem twice so we could more fully absorb it. Soon, he donned an elaborate animal mask. </span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></p><p class="p2" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Then, according to poet Al Simmons, “Five of them…four men and a women… approached him from each flank, and the woman came down the center aisle.”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">“We thought it was part of the show,” said poet Terry Jacobus. “Then the group knocked host Richard Friedman out of the way.”</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Simmons continued, “Bly sat perfectly still as two of them each poured a five-pound bag of white flour over his head, then stood back while the other three began shooting Bly with water pistols.”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"><br /></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">I had remembered it as bags of powdered Sakrete. Jacobus mentioned something about “confetti.” In addition, Bly received one or more pies-in-the-face. It looked like pie plates filled with shaving cream to me (Three Stooges-style?), while others recall it as custard.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-P2AlKu65LRGKglXy7S7D1fRhewbsesihLL-SA52ArrBys-Og1Hg6un-bSXCC_J3mKChnfAxCqDUd-qGyC3xL0fpSmO1M-lSg_FWaie0G6QuzUJIytBZXP4AcTxqpduLEIAixZg/s570/macaronymaking-570x381.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="381" data-original-width="570" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-P2AlKu65LRGKglXy7S7D1fRhewbsesihLL-SA52ArrBys-Og1Hg6un-bSXCC_J3mKChnfAxCqDUd-qGyC3xL0fpSmO1M-lSg_FWaie0G6QuzUJIytBZXP4AcTxqpduLEIAixZg/s320/macaronymaking-570x381.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><p></p><p class="p2" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Poet Michael Anania, by circumstance, was busy giving a more polite poetry reading that same night on the other end of town at the South Shore Cultural Center with poets Gwendolyn Brooks, Haki Madhubuti, and Leon Forrest. “I was the token white guy,” he said. Although he missed the Bly reading because of this previous engagement, he had quickly got wind of the concurrent event and heard that Bly’s “tar and feathering” ingredients comprised flour, eggs and milk.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></p><p></p><p class="p2" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Getting back to the Bly reading crashers, just who these culprits? None other than a group who called themselves the Chicago Surrealists, more of a political than artistic enclave, who published a magazine at the time called “Arsenal.” Among them were poets Penny Rosemont and her now-late husband Franklin Rosemont.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">It was of the latter that the late poet Paul Carroll wrote, “One hulking surrealist, dressed in Army-Navy store black, gargled at the audience that theirs was retribution for some recent review Robert had written in the New York Times, daring to criticize their hero, Octavio Paz.”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">I later learned that Bly was one of Chilean poet Pablo Neruda’s translators. Neruda, it turns out, who was politically a communist, and had been sympathetic to the Soviet leader Stalin. It was Stalin who had persecuted the Surrealists during his regime. For this and the crime in the paragraph above, Bly was doubly guilty in the eyes of the surrealists. Their goal that night? To “tar and feather” Bly in a shake-and-bake call-out for his transgressions.</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Bly stood without a word against his attackers. Then, according to Paul Carroll, “Several leapt from the audience, led by poet and bookseller Douglas MacDonald, who gave the bums the rush out.” Also, the Stone Wind poets, Simmons, Jacobus and Henry Kanabus charged the stage. Simmons said, “There was a skirmish and we pushed them out of the theater…into a vestibule that became pitch black when the lobby doors shut behind us.”</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">According to Jacobus, “We wrestled, punched and landed out on Lincoln Avenue. The cops were called.” In the dark, someone (not Jacobus) inadvertently had clocked Penny. Another Surrealist ended up in the gutter, and at least two had bloody noses. “We almost got arrested for poetry,” said Jacobus. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The defenders “…ducked back into the theater, to cheers and a standing ovation,” according to Simmons.</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Meanwhile, the evening’s hosts had come to the aid of Bly to guide him out of the spotlight into the nearest bathroom. Once quickly cleaned up, Bly returned to the dais and finished his reading. Carroll said, “Robert Bly’s performance was a tribute to the spirit of poetry itself. It was not fanciful to say that we heard one of the voices of Orpheus speaking, at times, through him. The show went on for hours and hours. It should have gone on all night.” Afterward, it was drinks all around at the Oxford Pub next door.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">All I really knew was that both Neruda and Bly were poets I admired. As well, I later came to personally meet and appreciate surrealists Penny and Franklin Rosemont, as honorable people, poets and publishers of the great Wobblie poet and friend Carlos Cortez. I always liked the Stone Wind guys, too, and had visited the Evanston home of Douglas MacDonald more than once with friend Effie Mihopoulos. Among such poets, who can choose sides? I was never quite sure if the small Surrealist group’s “statement” was as keenly directed as they had calculated, but I’ll never forget that night. ##</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">~ excerpted from the nonfiction/memoir/creativity guide <i><a href="https://store.bookbaby.com/book/Frugal-Poets-Guide-to-Life?fbclid=IwAR3CnSAvn5CQVR_T6xHgoHp-pJ0exL5xcgfhUsrZqfLqtv_uotDbqhjAkAc" target="_blank">Frugal Poets' Guide to Life: How to Live a Poetic Life, Even If You Aren't a Poet</a></i></span></p></div><p><br /></p>Cynthia Gallaherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04528052139106896290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8655077.post-78373259790172252472021-10-03T13:06:00.015-05:002021-10-04T05:40:21.251-05:00Did you know laundry dryer sheets contain endocrine disruptors? What natural alternative could you use instead…to get even better results? Wool dryer balls with essential oils!<p><b> Sister Dexterity w<i>ool dryer balls with pure essential oils<span class="Apple-converted-space"> set</span></i></b></p><p class="p2" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEickpwKCNsmxYObKeqZOhs1EtvYe56fIMQNfCHc3GwlkdeL-fMbQb-bbvvJWZFMVTl8tELeObQNTPkGsb1gXuXqYUO6cKKLoSd96AledhLODdz86C4PrU4lY6F5KOa1_Qgbatb5Ug/s2011/DryerBalls.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1984" data-original-width="2011" height="316" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEickpwKCNsmxYObKeqZOhs1EtvYe56fIMQNfCHc3GwlkdeL-fMbQb-bbvvJWZFMVTl8tELeObQNTPkGsb1gXuXqYUO6cKKLoSd96AledhLODdz86C4PrU4lY6F5KOa1_Qgbatb5Ug/s320/DryerBalls.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Do you ever walk around your neighborhood, expecting to enjoy the fresh, natural aromas of green grass and leafy trees that line your block? But instead, you smell the sickening-sweet odor of fabric softener and dryer sheets pumping out of your neighbors’ clothes dryer exhausts?<p></p><p class="p2" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;">It’s more than just a smell. A study from the University of Washington noted 15 substances in dryer sheets tested, including two carcinogens, and several neurotoxins and respiratory irritants. In a study of products that contain endocrine disruptors and asthma-associated substances, dryer sheets were named as one of the products with the highest concentrations of endocrine disruptors.</p><p class="p2" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">If you have been using fabric softener and/or dryer sheets yourself and for your family when you do your laundry, know that they work by depositing a thin layer of chemical softener onto fabrics, and these layers can build up over time. This buildup on your towels and your clothes then goes directly on your skin. If you’ve been trying to follow a healthy lifestyle, imagine laying carcinogens, endocrine disruptors and neurotoxins on your skin and breathing it into your lungs. But millions of people are doing just that.</p><p class="p2" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">What’s the answer? Pure wool dryer balls are a natural alternative to fabric softener and dryer sheets. Pure wool dryer balls offer these benefits:</p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">~ While fabric softeners and dryer sheets are full of chemicals and artificial perfumes, wool dryer balls are natural and made from a renewable resource.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">~ Dryer sheets are used once and thrown away. Wool dryer balls can be used 1,000 times.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">~ Fabric softeners build up, especially on your towels. Wool dryer balls won’t reduce the absorbency of your towels.</p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">~ Wool dryer balls flick moisture away from your clothes and linens and can reduce drying time by 25 percent.</p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">~ Wool dryer balls are quiet. Using old tennis balls or vinyl dryer balls are noisy and can produce a rubbery smell.</p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">~ Wool dryer balls fluff your clothes and help reduce static and wrinkles.</p><p class="p2" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Using pure, natural, plant-based essential oils on wool dryer balls complete the non-toxic, holistic laundry experience, replacing the artificial, chemical fragrances used in fabric softeners and dryer sheets.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p2" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYpTSn7IgnI0zaxOisLu0OszwlhgH72RKcc1YPiuKq-Rs9_r6LEeSERGwwze435NBi3X_4J7DV2QgbuyC0CBP6v_5nCHapMV50Q2iyDJvHW-gTDEwAYfusxMbmnYxC75NEGJaQhw/s2048/GallaherMintC.jpeg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYpTSn7IgnI0zaxOisLu0OszwlhgH72RKcc1YPiuKq-Rs9_r6LEeSERGwwze435NBi3X_4J7DV2QgbuyC0CBP6v_5nCHapMV50Q2iyDJvHW-gTDEwAYfusxMbmnYxC75NEGJaQhw/w200-h150/GallaherMintC.jpeg" width="200" /></a></div><br />My new cottage operation, <b>Sister Dexterity</b>, offers an attractive and easy-to-use dryer ball set to get your laundry going in the natural direction. Each <b>Sister Dexterity Dryer Ball Set</b> contains:<p></p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">~ Three natural, hypoallergenic dryer balls made from 100% New Zealand wool, using no dyes or chemicals.</p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">~ Bottle with 5 ml of my signature dryer ball drops made totally of the highest quality, pure essential oils (lavender, lemon, lemongrass and eucalyptus) that add up to a crisp, clean scent. All essential oil, no fillers. Use 3 to 4 drops of the oil on each dryer ball before throwing them into the dryer with wet laundry.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">~ A small leaflet with instructions on how best to use the dryer balls and dryer ball drops.</p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">~<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>A natural, drawstring burlap bag to hold your dryer balls and dryer ball drops, or to present as a gift.</p><p class="p2" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-ndE1PCV1FRCDf0i-NHPZTHROT0ppLA0LasPj8eoktEU2wdJFN6xMG_18S7mjceQXyT7XIQPGDNeZ23TEyMYTQDk2ovolUMn0xIcte08Cdccdu4Oa7I3ny7tlqKOfpT88KU-RCg/s718/SisterDexterityLogoB.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="634" data-original-width="718" height="177" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-ndE1PCV1FRCDf0i-NHPZTHROT0ppLA0LasPj8eoktEU2wdJFN6xMG_18S7mjceQXyT7XIQPGDNeZ23TEyMYTQDk2ovolUMn0xIcte08Cdccdu4Oa7I3ny7tlqKOfpT88KU-RCg/w200-h177/SisterDexterityLogoB.png" width="200" /></a></div><br />The Sister Dexterity Dryer Ball Set makes the ideal gift. What greater gift can you give than something that will improve the health of your friends, family members, coworkers, club members, teachers or neighbors…as well as improve their overall laundry experience! Also the perfect shower gift, housewarming gift, hostess gift or Secret Santa gift.<p></p><p class="p2" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I am offering a special friends and family discount on the sets before I list them on Etsy or place them in specialty stores: <b>one Sister Dexterity Dryer Ball Set</b> is specially priced at $25, including tax and shipping. When you buy <b>three Sister Dexterity Dryer Ball Sets</b>, the price is only $60, including tax and shipping. That means free shipping either way!</p><p class="p2" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Contact me, Sister Dexterity, aka Cynthia Gallaher, at <a href="mailto:swimmer53@yahoo.com"><span class="s1" style="color: #0563c1;">swimmer53@yahoo.com</span></a> with your order and/or questions. I will then direct you to either my Paypal.me account or Zelle account for easy payment and a quick shipment to you.</p><p class="p2" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Shipping within the continental United States only (that excludes Alaska and Hawaii).</p><p class="p2" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">By the way, I am a certified aromatherapist C.A., a member of NAHA (National Association for Holistic Aromatherapy) and am dedicated to using only the purest, natural, non-toxic ingredients in my formulas.</p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFX9lHXCelM8CG-A11yWerqVUvshq1upTJoJV36CsAmNzfwA5tf1-Lgf95WLN6m_p5D_jOQaF7fPT12Xze2DBh3WpDDKcafuCu7avBELclH7tFuPRmLdQAaXKN9Zg1R4-i8OunOA/s1204/Screen+Shot+2021-10-03+at+12.52.57+PM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="462" data-original-width="1204" height="123" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFX9lHXCelM8CG-A11yWerqVUvshq1upTJoJV36CsAmNzfwA5tf1-Lgf95WLN6m_p5D_jOQaF7fPT12Xze2DBh3WpDDKcafuCu7avBELclH7tFuPRmLdQAaXKN9Zg1R4-i8OunOA/w320-h123/Screen+Shot+2021-10-03+at+12.52.57+PM.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p></p>Cynthia Gallaherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04528052139106896290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8655077.post-84652423367694459812021-08-08T08:42:00.018-05:002021-08-08T15:13:52.962-05:00Short poems, long memories. A tribute to haiku pioneer Gayle Bull<p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Sometimes it pays to wander at random, then be surprised at what awaits you. Ten years ago, I was the second writer-in-residence at a new program at Shake Rag Alley, a cultural center in the small, historic town of Mineral Point, Wisconsin.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Located in southwest Wisconsin, Mineral Point was founded by miners from Cornwall, England. Its homes and businesses, crafted mainly of a yellowish stone (I believe a form of sandstone), have been carefully restored, with many buildings pre-dating statehood. Pottery studios, art galleries, quaint hotels and unique restaurants dot the landscape of this town of 2,500 or so.</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBCz2703K-sNSBg7KnlL0KdDiML-0y7WOB6QBhBsvksnJrPwUu1S0M_XAubWgidTeV951ivLwUSuDcLLGO8wd7aHkJVMs1QMAC3E5x3w7gzpD4Mp8MFcYnibhS5WslmXOesNUFaw/s550/the-foundry-books.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><img border="0" data-original-height="309" data-original-width="550" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBCz2703K-sNSBg7KnlL0KdDiML-0y7WOB6QBhBsvksnJrPwUu1S0M_XAubWgidTeV951ivLwUSuDcLLGO8wd7aHkJVMs1QMAC3E5x3w7gzpD4Mp8MFcYnibhS5WslmXOesNUFaw/s320/the-foundry-books.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Three hours from my home base in Chicago, I was in Mineral Point for a week with no particular duties carved out for me but to write poetry, walk, think and meditate. However, it was early May, still off-season for many businesses which were either still closed until summer, or had shortened hours. That was a good thing; to be in a place and time with few distractions and get more writing done, which I did. Nevertheless, I also needed to take breaks and breathe some fresh Wisconsin air in between writing sessions.</span><p></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">On one particular walk, I wandered into Foundry Books, a little haven on the edge of town with new, but mostly used books. For some reason, I hadn’t been aware that Mineral Point even had a bookstore. The magnanimous proprietor Gayle Bull greeted me, and I told her I was mainly looking for books of poetry. After a chat, she learned why I was in town, and asked, “Have you ever been interested in haiku?” I think I answered something like, “A little. It’s something I teach children every once in a while in school workshops.”</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-z-tkCE3c9ZHiefPfdhqCRoYZdcVP7uLSHOLAzhowospW_HzWjAygkLdbgxTkvbjfd_TahatNRqoaH-2yWI_DR8Xk4wCgXM9a6v4thLnwPJAqcNmn5h7PWcV6RGrgGCGLHnFfuA/s450/the-foundry-books-2.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="253" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-z-tkCE3c9ZHiefPfdhqCRoYZdcVP7uLSHOLAzhowospW_HzWjAygkLdbgxTkvbjfd_TahatNRqoaH-2yWI_DR8Xk4wCgXM9a6v4thLnwPJAqcNmn5h7PWcV6RGrgGCGLHnFfuA/s320/the-foundry-books-2.jpg" width="180" /></span></a></div><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">She showed me an archive of haiku books and periodicals dating back to when she and her late husband Jim Bull edited the first American haiku magazine, <i>American Haiku</i>. Way back in the recesses of my memory, I remember submitting some “haiku” to this publication when I first started writing and being rejected. Ah, yes, and it was located in Wisconsin. But Gayle Bull’s warm demeanor and open enthusiasm for the subject made me forget about that.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">She opened up various issues of the magazine and pointed out haiku that resonated with her. Some haiku were three lines, some two and some even one line (called a monostitch). And none had to be the five-seven-five-syllable, three-line haiku most of us are familiar with. When haiku reached the American shores, she explained, haiku took on a new direction. The five-seven-five (17 syllable) format was perfect for Japanese, which uses more syllables in its words than in English (haiku expert Lee Gurga feels that American haiku should usually be no longer than 12 syllables). And counting syllables isn’t really the point. The point is to create two separate images that juxtapose, that cause that haiku aha! moment in the reader.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">After meeting Gayle, I made periodic trips back to Mineral Point over the following years, to take part in dining-room-table haiku workshops in the back of the bookstore where Gayle lived, to attend haiku lectures and, also accompanied by my poet husband Carlos Cumpian, the occasional Cradle of American Haiku conferences headquartered at Foundry Books, which hosted haiku events around town at various locations.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">I felt as if Gayle took me under her wing and nurtured my direction in this special genre, new, surprisingly deep, and exciting for me. I slowly began to write “real haiku,” versus the children’s workshop 5-7-5 syllable counters, made new friends among the close group of haiku aficionados and began to get haiku published in magazines such as <i>Frogpond</i> and <i>Bottle Rockets</i>. While I still mainly write conventional poetry (maybe not-so-conventional), haiku holds a special place for me as well these past years.</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigNKtpNge-ne8kMWxTuJ0cW5IQ_4KDHEWgqOtTuwZ49qZ-MVTV0_aDYhjLIh48gQAk_Jwto3GBwOryXur7bCY7gyCZDH7V4806qcrWN8hUvR3NLhksQdmWSu5WT3jQBsBGnhSNzQ/s1200/4c7fd5e130c5b.preview-705.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1200" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigNKtpNge-ne8kMWxTuJ0cW5IQ_4KDHEWgqOtTuwZ49qZ-MVTV0_aDYhjLIh48gQAk_Jwto3GBwOryXur7bCY7gyCZDH7V4806qcrWN8hUvR3NLhksQdmWSu5WT3jQBsBGnhSNzQ/s320/4c7fd5e130c5b.preview-705.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">I owe much to my friendship with Gayle, who unfortunately passed away in 2019. I will always remember her fondly and have nothing but a grateful heart for who she was. Her birthday is August 8. And the good news is, haiku lives on in Mineral Point!<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Read more about Gayle Bull, Foundry Books and. Mineral Point in my memoir/reference/creativity guide <a href="https://store.bookbaby.com/book/Frugal-Poets-Guide-to-Life" target="_blank"><i>Frugal Poets’ Guide to Life: How to Live a Poetic Life, Even If You Aren’t a Poet</i>.</a></span></p></div><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><br /></div><p></p></blockquote><p><br /></p>Cynthia Gallaherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04528052139106896290noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8655077.post-43792864416254333762021-04-30T14:33:00.021-05:002021-04-30T16:48:59.389-05:00Poets! Do at Least One "Poetry Thing" Every DayAs poets, we probably know it's important to write every day. But even while understanding such a wise guideline, if you're like me, you probably don't write every single day. Whether it's because of work, commuting, childcare, domestic duties, or keeping up with friends and extended family, the time you need to sit down without distractions to write may be limited. Sometimes I don't even feel like writing. I'd rather work on artwork, read or catch up on the latest on Netflix. Or perhaps take a much needed nap.<div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsnQpdgr0npgvHCnKMj13c8ty37TtYF6ZSrhoKI634xEoKnfqVljNjpbEJMJUm2yWfxeaZJKp3uxZPpyk0w3Y4faWBjXwilcLkCYQGtbpe-jN771Ieu7nZinNxjQL47zP7ml9DWg/s1024/WritingLife.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1024" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsnQpdgr0npgvHCnKMj13c8ty37TtYF6ZSrhoKI634xEoKnfqVljNjpbEJMJUm2yWfxeaZJKp3uxZPpyk0w3Y4faWBjXwilcLkCYQGtbpe-jN771Ieu7nZinNxjQL47zP7ml9DWg/s320/WritingLife.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />So I made this new rule for myself. If, on a certain day, I don't work on a poem, I vow to at least accomplish one "poetry thing" that day. Wait. What is a "poetry thing?" In my estimation, it could be one of the following:</div><div><br /></div><div>~ Read poetry from a poetry collection or magazine</div><div>~ Submit poetry to a publisher</div><div>~ Attend a poetry reading, live or virtual</div><div>~ Edit an old poem</div><div>~ Promote your latest published poem or poetry collection on social media</div><div>~ Promote your fellow poets' latest published poem or poetry collection on social media</div><div>~ Give a reading at a live or virtual open mic</div><div>~ Attend a virtual poetry event</div><div>~ Attend an online poetry workshop</div><div>~ Do research and/or write ideas/notes for a new poem</div><div>~ Comb your personal journal for ideas for new poems</div><div>~ Go to the library to check out the new poetry collections</div><div>~ Follow a writing prompt from an outside source or a book to start a new poem</div><div>~ Select poems you've written that might make up a new poetry chapbook or full collection</div><div>~ Or just write a new poem </div><div><br /></div><div>Why do any or all of these "Poetry Things?" If you call yourself a poet, you need to live a poet's life! And life is lived every day! Can you name another "poetry thing" that doesn't appear on the list above? Please share. I'd like to hear from you. With so many options, there's no reason not to do at least one "poetry thing" every day! </div><div>##</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Cynthia Gallaherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04528052139106896290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8655077.post-47516824331764171372020-08-31T19:47:00.030-05:002020-09-01T06:42:34.568-05:00How to Journal Your Dream House<div class="separator"><div class="separator" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">Don't we sometimes fantasize about what your perfect dream house might be like? A topic you might journal about during this Covid-19 time of uncertainty is what you picture as your dream house. But why now? During Covid season!? Now, when you're perhaps in no personal or financial position to move anywhere, much less to a dream house? Isn't it materialistic or even torture to spend time thinking about it? </span></div></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHr_AndZOP9EvyIo8ns1EkJfRciw9C4srwmq2aEdIHKv2ROZoa52gaONU1DoY4T1BF84xYUeF0sauE2gP0N4e4cfabLh9D990A3mgd1XwCJzO9QxPdVjQP25PfiQmR7mqDUTD_0Q/s1024/Barbie-Hello-Dreamhouse-1024x650.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="650" data-original-width="1024" height="260" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHr_AndZOP9EvyIo8ns1EkJfRciw9C4srwmq2aEdIHKv2ROZoa52gaONU1DoY4T1BF84xYUeF0sauE2gP0N4e4cfabLh9D990A3mgd1XwCJzO9QxPdVjQP25PfiQmR7mqDUTD_0Q/w410-h260/Barbie-Hello-Dreamhouse-1024x650.jpg" width="410" /></a></div><br />I did so to find out. Today, I finished writing seven journal pages of thoughts, whimsies and even plain wish lists about what my dream house might be comprised of. Not so much what it "looks like," but what it's "about." Many of those aspects of such a future house (or never-in-the-future-house, as I may never get one) had been eating at me, spinning around in my head in random order.<p></p><p>After I spent an hour or so putting my thoughts down, seeing them on paper, I actually felt much better and even felt <i>released</i> from the fantasy of what "could be." By putting the needs, wants and not wants in front of me in writing, it brought a realism and organization to an unrealistic situation. All and all, a house is not a home. I have a home now. It's the site of what's important to me: family, love, faith, poetry, art. Someday a future house might be a home, too. But I don't have to think about it anymore, right now. Or desire it anymore, right now. Because it's there, inside my journal. If I ever really need to refer to it. I'll be prepared. haha. Nevertheless, all the while, I had fun and learned more about myself and my own personality. Actually, some of the things I "wanted" are ideas I can put forth right now, and cost little to nothing. Perhaps this exercise was more about me than about an actual house. </p><p><i>Some fantasies about a house that stood out in my journal:</i> </p><p>~ "Every room should have its own song (or at least a poem written about it with an abstract portrait created in pastels or acrylics) as in Harold Budd's ambient music album 'The Room,' in which room/songs with titles 'The Room of Ancillary Dreams,' 'The Room of Oracles,' 'The Candied Room' and 'The Room of Accidental Geometry' appear."</p><p>~ "The house might have a winter bedroom and a summer bedroom, with the seasons' respective clothes in each bedroom closet. The winter bedroom would be on the sunny side of the house, painted in warm, earthy colors. The summer bedroom, on the other hand, would be on a shady side of the house, with cool blues and greens in its palette. "</p><p>~ "A house should have a minimum of one bedroom, one bath, one kitchen and a living room with a desk and bookshelves. A house should have a maximum of 10 rooms and then be themed like the game Clue ~ with the Library, the Conservatory, the Billiard Room (or names like the Harold Budd album, above). If unattached at the time, I would try to meet someone named Colonel Mustard, as in the Clue game, or at least someone who likes the mustard color, or the condiment. Just kidding."</p><p>~ "If you have so many rooms you just don't know what to do with them all (haha), retain one room for the most kitschy or throw-back-era items you can find: old black velvet paintings, a lava lamp, a round bed with a pastel rococo headboard, spool table, bean bag chairs, tacky vases, plastic flowers, ornate crazy-looking side table lamps from thrift stores, funny road signs, making it a real American Pickers' lived-in paradise."</p><p>I also included aspects of a house that SHOULD NOT be included, though other people might think they're important, such as an attached garage, a white kitchen, a formal dining room, cathedral ceilings, be near a golf course, a swimming pool, a media/theater room, PVC plumbing. I don't have any of those things right now, so that's covered!</p><p>Of course, my list of what a house SHOULD have is quite long, highlighted by some unusually self-indulgent entries, but also, importantly, to have rock outcroppings nearby, a front door high above ground level reached by stairs, arches somewhere, and space for archery out back. </p><p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="667" data-original-width="1200" height="228" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmQ4s4AiS4dLv1lfjGZ3RwTbbceTMemQEYZxGnP44Nta85GmwTXj59TFOANecWoLD1ZSuS9ybEb6FM8kBO6ODRC-_BzcX5M1nxiugxQtrdH8QbgCIzYqZjcUVtV5YDUlqkvxAJIg/w410-h228/Dv7N8wpX4AI8koH.jpg" width="410" /></div><br />Cynthia Gallaherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04528052139106896290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8655077.post-52013598283257348452020-07-19T21:19:00.000-05:002020-07-20T15:43:27.600-05:00Poem: When the Three Gorges Dam CollapsesAn earth-shaking story that barely appears in any Western news source is evolving right now in China along the Yangtze River. Here is a "what-if" poem of what might happen in the near future.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11pt;">On that terrible day, after months of rain,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11pt;">when the Three Gorges Dam collapses,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11pt;">erasing great cities of Wuhan, Nanking </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11pt;">and Shanghai </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11pt;">off the world map.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11pt;">On that terrible day, and the days that follow,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11pt;">On that terrible day, they will blame Tibet,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11pt;">Mao Tse-Tung, </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11pt;">who, after the great floods of 1949, </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11pt;">and </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11pt;">once-wise brother </span><br />
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Cynthia Gallaherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04528052139106896290noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8655077.post-53761276745109453342020-06-17T18:31:00.000-05:002020-06-19T09:13:45.072-05:00Memories of Aunt Jemima, hostess at Aunt Jemima's Pancake House<h1 style="break-after: avoid; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; line-height: 32px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">
Excerpt from my memoir manuscript, "The Year of 14 Jobs" </h1>
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Job 3: Waitressing at the Bum Steer, Harwood Heights, Illinois, 1969 (formerly Aunt Jemima's Pancake House)<o:p></o:p></h1>
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The street sign itself should have been a tip-off. Who named a restaurant “The Bum Steer?” Was it based on a really bad inside joke? Naming a restaurant “The Bum Steer” was like naming a used car dealer “Rip-off Roger’s” or a tile store “Chipped Charlie’s.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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After my day delivering phone books, it was tough to find another job. It seemed as if every prospective employer I spoke said, “Do you have any experience in this line of work?” Whether it was for a job selling shoes, slicing meat or working a cosmetic counter, how much experience did they expect a 16-year-old girl to have, anyway? Soon, I went back to what I did have experience in – waitressing.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The Bum Steer occupied a wide building on Harlem near Montrose, formerly Aunt Jemima’s Pancake House. It had been there for years. The facade always reminded me of a columned plantation manor when Aunt Jemima had been there. It stayed as it was after Bum Steer took over.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="line-height: 32px;">I remember when the Aunt Jemima Pancake House previously hired a black “mammy” to dress up as Aunt Jemima. Sporting a do-rag bandana and huge apron, “Aunt Jemima” lavished southern stereotypical greetings on northwest side, lily-white Chicago customers. “Land sakes, you folks come right on in and set down. It’s chow time,” she’d say, or if sleepy-eyed Sunday morning customers walked in, it might be “</span>Wake up, Jacob, day's abreakin' -- yonder comes a hare with his tail ashakin'.”<span lang="EN" style="line-height: 32px;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN">The term “Aunt Jemima” itself might indeed be considered a kind of inside joke, if certainly a racist one. Someone told me, I'm not sure if were a black or white person, that it was a personification of “Ain't Yo Mama,” which is dialect for “I’m not your mother.” Slave women could have said this to plantation owner’s children they were placed in charge of. If the children didn’t see their real mother as often as their black nanny, they might begin to look at her as their real “mammy.” “No honey, I ain’t yo mama, I’m your Aunt Jemima.” </span><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 32px;">Of course, having a black “mammy” in costume, holding court in a restaurant or any other venue today would surely be labeled as racist.</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "tahoma"; font-size: 7.5pt; line-height: 20px;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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When the Aunt Jemima Pancake House chain finally went out of business, each former restaurant locale transformed into something else – a bridal salon, an auto parts store, or in this case, another restaurant. i.e. “The Bum Steer.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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I filled out an application. The manager Gus called me in. I landed a part-time position. I studied the menus along with guidance of Hazel, the head waitress. Hazel was a tall, robust, forthright woman in her late 40s, who also wore her hair back in a chignon, ala Rose from Rose Grill (Harlem & Higgins), but in a lovely auburn shade and without it looking nearly as much a Rose hair helmet. She was a full timer who had spent some years working for Aunt Jemima’s as well.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In addition, Bum Steer kept the same woman who had fulfilled the role of "Aunt Jemima" as the restaurant hostess on weekend mornings, since so many people knew her. Gone was the outfit, she wore her own clothes. Everyone was thrilled she was part of the new restaurant. I never found out her real name, or at least I asked her and soon forgot it, since Hazel always called her Aunt Jemima. She didn't seem to mind. Hazel even suggested that she wear the "Aunt Jemima" get-up again on Mother's Day, every restaurant's busiest day, but she said the outfit went by the way of Aunt Jemima's and they had repossessed it.</div>
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Besides Aunt Jemima in street clothes, I always felt bad for a Mexican-American cook at the restaurant who also worked weekends. He lived so far on the south side of Chicago that it was too far and too late for him to take public transportation home on Saturday night, and too early on Sunday morning to make it back and get enough sleep in between. Because of this, Bum Steer let him sleep in one of the restaurant booths overnight so he could be ready, bright and early, on Sunday morning to cook breakfasts. I'm sure it was totally illegal, and they bent the rules for him. But I thought it was just downright sad someone had to travel so far on three buses to get employment. I wrote a poem <a href="http://redboothreview.blogspot.com/2012/05/egg-man-cynthia-gallaher.html" target="_blank">The Egg Man </a>about one of the Mexican-American cooks at Bum Steer.<br />
BTW, in later years, I came to realize that The Bum Steer might have been a financial cover for a mob-owned business. Italian-American "managers" from California who knew nothing about the restaurant business would come and go occasionally, as would the capped "owner" and his entourage of henchmen.<br />
After The Bum Steer went out of business (after I had left, haha) it next became the "Earl of Old Town on Harlem," a folk club for all ages. I had later gone on a date there with a guy who teamed up with the comedian Andy Kaufman in California and became the character Tony Clifton in his touring duo. </div>
Cynthia Gallaherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04528052139106896290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8655077.post-13761004335896669722020-05-08T06:20:00.001-05:002020-05-08T06:26:34.790-05:00COVID-19 Coronavirus Update: Homeopathics, Herbs, Foods, Essential Oils & Supplements for Prevention<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoNormalTable" style="width: 100%px;"><tbody>
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<span style="color: #020202; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 13.5pt;">There aren't many scientific papers on COVID-19 as it's emerging, and the most accurate we can be is to provide an informed clinical impression. Forty years ago, I made the decision to tell people not to smoke because it could cause lung cancer; however, it took 30 more years for the scientific community to prove this fact. The message should be obvious - Asking for complete scientific proof in this situation won't provide an accurate understanding of the situation. </span><span style="color: #403f42; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #020202; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 13.5pt;">In my background as a former lieutenant commander in the Public Health Service, in this situation, I have the option to wait until all necessary proof is in before making a statement, or I can give my informed medical public health opinion based on 47 years of experience. I've made the choice that if I'm wrong, the worst that happens is people get healthier. If I'm right, this protocol can save many lives. There are other agencies, including government agencies, and people who I believe are taking similar positions. </span><span style="color: #403f42; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #020202; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease at the National Institute of Health, says, "We are on the verge of a global pandemic reasonably soon." The coronavirus infections at this point are showing up in between 25-27 countries. Director of the CDC, Dr. Robert Redfield, has said, "This will be a major pandemic with repeated infections." AMAC (Association of Mature American Citizens) has issued a statement, "The coronavirus is worse than the international media claims."</span><span style="color: #403f42; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #020202; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 13.5pt;">One of the top world experts on biological weaponry, as well as a professor of international law at the University of Illinois, is Dr. Francis Boyle. He also had a law passed in the US in 1989 against the use of bio-weapons, which was adopted into world law in 1989 (the <i>Biological Weapon Anti-Terrorist Act of 1989</i>). I'm getting much of my overall information from him in trying to understand this COVID-19 virus. Dr. Boyle has stated that this is a very serious situation and feels that this COVID-19 weaponized virus was the result of bio-weapon technology that escaped from the DSL-4 laboratory in Wuhan, China. He also points out that there are scientists around the world confirming that this is a weaponized virus. </span><span style="color: #403f42; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #020202; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Dr. Francis Boyle also points out that there are 4 French scientists who recently published an article in the journal, <i>Science Direct</i>, on antiviral research on February 10, 2020. These scientists did a genetic analysis of the COVID-19, and their analysis showed a form of bio-weaponization that "may provide a gain of function to the COVID-19 for efficient spreading in human population as compared to other coronaviruses”. The phrase "gain of function" means "manmade and weaponized". This analysis included the observation of a spiked protein shell on the virus for better penetration into human cells. He explains that the phrase, "gain of function", directly implies that DNA genetic engineering was done. In other words, their research showed the COVID-19 virus was clearly weaponized. This conclusion is also in alignment with the findings in India at Kusuma School of Biological Sciences showing that there was a genetic sequence taken from the HIV virus to and implanted into the COVID-19 to improve infectivity. Their research was published in the Lancet, but, later, it was "pulled out" of the publication. Dr. Boyle also points out in a 2010 journal, <i>Archive of Virology,</i> from Australia that there has been active work in the use of SARS and HIV to create weaponized chimeric viruses. </span><span style="color: #403f42; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #020202; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 13.5pt;">The most serious research that he communicates is a study reported at the DSL-3 laboratory in North Carolina in 2015 that shows that MERS (another weaponized coronavirus) was developed with the technology that makes "gain of function". The article states, "A SARS-like cluster of circulating bat coronavirus has potential for human emergence” (<i>Nat Med 6/21/15</i>). He also documents that a leading bio-warfare scientist from Wuhan was trained in "gain of function" technology from the DSL-3 laboratory in North Carolina. In this paper they admit being paid by China to train the Chinese scientist from the Wuhan DSL-4 laboratory. It's specifically designed to infect human respiratory airways. It is thought provoking to realize that the National Institute of Health, according to this 2015 North Carolina paper, okayed this training of the Chinese scientist. In other words, this technology was not stolen by the Chinese, but, rather, sold to them. Apparently, they also used an HIV cell wall attack virus DNA section that helps it penetrate cells. This 2015 training done by the North Carolina DSL-3 laboratory was also approved by the National Institute of Health, as cited in their 2015 paper. (Phonetically pronounced, the top Chinese researcher was Genlee Hi Shi.) The MERS research showed a 36% fatality. Generally, at this point, with the current virus, we have a gain in what they call “pathogenesis” from 2% to 15-18%. The point is, this top Chinese researcher was trained at the North Carolina DSL-3 laboratory to develop "gain of function" bio-weapon technology. In another very recently released paper, 2 Chinese professors at the South China University of Technology also concluded that the virus leaked out of the Wuhan laboratory. </span><span style="color: #403f42; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #020202; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 13.5pt;">A few months ago, there was a paper, published in the Lancet, that stated the incubation period for the COVID-19 was 24 days rather than 14. This means holding someone in quarantine for 14 days is insufficient prevention. The problem, as mentioned earlier, is that it takes a long time to document all that's happened. In summary, we can surmise that the bio-weapon technology that is the basis of COVID-19 was developed in the US and sold to the Chinese before it's accidental release from the Wuhan DSL-4 laboratory. </span><span style="color: #403f42; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #020202; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Why are humans choosing to act criminally by making offensive bioweapons against humanity and against the Biological Weapon Anti-Terrorist Act of 1989? It may actually be a reasonable idea that all these DSL labs around the world (including the 12 in the US) be shut down for the protection of humanity. From a biblical point of view, the fourth of the four horsemen of the apocalypse is the rider on the pale (slightly green) horse, who brings plague and pestilence. </span><span style="color: #403f42; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #020202; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Our best defense against this is to care for ourselves preventably the best we can. This is why I've created this prevention and treatment protocol for optimal protection and treatment. Since it is highly likely we will all be exposed, this protocol is the key to dealing with this.</span><span style="color: #403f42; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #bf3f2f; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 13.5pt;">When flying or traveling I recommend 2 essential oil blends:</span></b><span style="color: #403f42; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #020202; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Immortal Immune [not sure if he means Helichrysum oil] – to put on the tops of your feet before bed and upon waking.</span><span style="color: #403f42; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #bf3f2f; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Recommended Homeopathics:</span></b><span style="color: #403f42; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #bf3f2f; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 13.5pt;">in your diet to protect you from COVID-19:</span></b><span style="color: #403f42; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #020202; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 13.5pt;">The basic mechanism of infection is that the virus latches onto the cell’s surface. As many laboratories around the world have noted, COVID-19 is weaponized with an HIV delivery system. First noted in India, it is highly likely this is a human virus weaponized with an HIV delivery system and also a SARS-like upper respiratory component. At this point, even some officials from communist China are saying it was accidentally leaked from a laboratory in Wuhan. Some have said that the virus enters through an ACE2 receptors on the cell wall membrane, and, supposedly, Asian people have 5 times more ACE2 receptors than other populations. Others are saying it may be more race-specific with the Japanese and Chinese people being the most susceptible. Older people are statistically dying the most, and no fatalities have been reported for children under 10 years old.</span><span style="color: #403f42; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #020202; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 13.5pt;">The virus enters the cell via a vesicle called an endosome. Once inside, it releases its RNA into the cell cytoplasm and hijacks the cell machinery to produce more viral proteins and thus virus. It also releases an enzyme called 3CL (3-chymotripsin-like protease). This enzyme attacks the cells defense mechanism against the coronavirus inhibitors.</span><span style="color: #403f42; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #020202; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 13.5pt;">The following herbal remedies that are suggested destroy the 3CL enzyme and thus protect the cell’s ability to protect itself against the coronavirus. The best for destroying the 3CL enzyme is </span><b><span style="color: #108ba3; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 13.5pt;">quercetin </span></b><span style="color: #020202; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 13.5pt;">and </span><b><span style="color: #108ba3; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 13.5pt;">epigallocatechin gallate,</span></b><span style="color: #020202; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 13.5pt;"> which is found in </span><b><span style="color: #108ba3; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 13.5pt;">green tea </span></b><span style="color: #020202; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 13.5pt;">and</span><b><span style="color: #108ba3; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 13.5pt;"> green tea extract </span></b><span style="color: #020202; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 13.5pt;">we carry (to add to other beverages). These anti-3CL substances are also found in: </span><span style="color: #403f42; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #108ba3; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 13.5pt;">· <b>citrus peel</b></span><span style="color: #403f42; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #108ba3; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 13.5pt;">· <b>orange peel</b></span><span style="color: #403f42; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #108ba3; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 13.5pt;">· <b>oregano</b></span><span style="color: #403f42; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #108ba3; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 13.5pt;">· <b>garlic</b></span><span style="color: #403f42; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #108ba3; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 13.5pt;">· <b>ginger</b></span><span style="color: #403f42; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #bf3f2f; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Essential Oils to protect you from COVID-19:</span></b><span style="color: #403f42; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #020202; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Shanti and I have decided the most important essential oils, which were key for prevention and healing during the bubonic plague are: </span><span style="color: #403f42; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #108ba3; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 13.5pt;">· <b>eucalyptus</b></span><span style="color: #403f42; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #108ba3; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 13.5pt;">· <b>clove </b></span><span style="color: #403f42; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #108ba3; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 13.5pt;">· <b>tea tree</b></span><span style="color: #403f42; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #108ba3; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 13.5pt;">· <b>frankincense</b></span><span style="color: #403f42; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #108ba3; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 13.5pt;">· <b>Immortal Immune</b></span><span style="color: #403f42; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #108ba3; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 13.5pt;">· <b>Germs-Be-Gone</b></span><span style="color: #403f42; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #020202; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Add these into your overall prevention system. </span><b><i><span style="color: #bf3f2f; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 13.5pt;">The key concept is prevention.</span></i></b><b><i><span style="color: #020202; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></i></b><span style="color: #020202; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Rub on top of feet, wrists, and chest.</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #bf3f2f; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Let's use this situation to improve our </span></b><span style="color: #403f42; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #bf3f2f; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 13.5pt;">overall health habits and wellbeing by:</span></b><span style="color: #403f42; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #020202; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 13.5pt;">1) </span><span style="color: #403f42; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 9pt;"><u><span style="color: #020202; font-size: 13.5pt;">Deepening our connection with God</span></u></span><span style="color: #020202; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 13.5pt;">.</span><span style="color: #403f42; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #020202; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 13.5pt;">2) </span><span style="color: #403f42; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 9pt;"><u><span style="color: #020202; font-size: 13.5pt;">Getting enough sleep.</span></u><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #020202; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 13.5pt;">3) Minimizing stress.</span><span style="color: #403f42; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #020202; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 13.5pt;">4) </span><span style="color: #403f42; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 9pt;"><u><span style="color: #020202; font-size: 13.5pt;">Staying hydrated.</span></u><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #020202; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 13.5pt;">5) Associating with loving people.</span><span style="color: #403f42; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #020202; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 13.5pt;">6) Exercising moderately.</span><span style="color: #403f42; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #020202; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 13.5pt;">7) </span><span style="color: #403f42; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 9pt;"><u><span style="color: #020202; font-size: 13.5pt;">Doing breathing exercises everyday (pranayama).</span></u><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #020202; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 13.5pt;">8) </span><span style="color: #403f42; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 9pt;"><u><span style="color: #020202; font-size: 13.5pt;">Eating high raw and eating 100% vegan.</span></u><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #020202; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 13.5pt;">9) Utilizing my Wuhan Coronavirus Protection Protocol.</span><span style="color: #403f42; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #020202; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 13.5pt;">The healthier you are and the more proactive steps you take, you minimize your chances of catching and/or dying from the coronavirus.</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #bf3f2f; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 13.5pt;">To protect and enhance our natural immunity, here is my current COVID-19 Protection Supplement Protocol:</span></b><span style="color: #403f42; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #403f42; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 9pt;"><b><u><span style="color: #020202; font-size: 13.5pt;">Illumodine</span></u></b></span><span style="color: #020202; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 13.5pt;"> - 20 drops in a glass of water 3 times daily (15 minutes or more away from food) (Iodine has been shown to destroy SARS and MRSA viruses and, in its atomic form [Illumodine] is probably the most powerful antiviral on the planet.)</span><span style="color: #403f42; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #403f42; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 9pt;"><b><u><span style="color: #020202; font-size: 13.5pt;">Nano Silver</span></u></b></span><span style="color: #020202; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 13.5pt;"> - 1 teaspoon twice daily (Nano Silver has been shown to destroy SARS and MRSA viruses.)</span><span style="color: #403f42; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #020202; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 13.5pt;">*Illumodine, Nano Silver, and Red Algae are the top 3 antivirals.*</span></i><span style="color: #403f42; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #403f42; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 9pt;"><b><u><span style="color: #020202; font-size: 13.5pt;">Antioxidant Extreme</span></u></b></span><span style="color: #020202; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 13.5pt;"> - 2 capsules twice daily</span><span style="color: #403f42; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #020202; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Licorice Root</span></b><span style="color: #020202; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 13.5pt;"> - take as tea or tincture once daily (for lung protection)</span><span style="color: #403f42; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #403f42; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 9pt;"><b><u><span style="color: #020202; font-size: 13.5pt;">Vitamin C</span></u></b></span><span style="color: #020202; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 13.5pt;"> - as much as you can take before diarrhea</span><span style="color: #403f42; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #020202; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 13.5pt;">The good news is that this plague could be a sign of a great awakening and a huge spiritual shift on the planet. Our task is to survive this plague to participant in the cosmic messianic shift in consciousness. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #020202; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 13.5pt;">May we all be blessed to take appropriate prevention and to stay strong in uplifting the health and spiritual energy of the world.</span><span style="color: #403f42; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #020202; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Rabbi Gabriel Cousens, MD, MD(H), ND(hc), DD</span><span style="color: #403f42; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #020202; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 13.5pt;">A March 2020 update from Dr. Cousens appears <a href="https://www.ppep.org/coronavirus-2/" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></div>
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Cynthia Gallaherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04528052139106896290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8655077.post-49429732603659867442019-11-27T07:43:00.000-06:002019-11-27T10:09:10.248-06:00Thanksgiving Poem: Beat of the Pumpkin Drum<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">big orange, Illinois,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">rotund autumnal <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">pumpkin territory.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">August’s thrum begins to drum<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">against tough hides<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">of pumpkin acres,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">the ripening signal.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">tiniest ones line window sills <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">along back porch halls,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">while grandest usher<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Cinderella on route to the ball.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">the beat continues through harvest time,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">as burners heat for packing plant’s<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">canning extravaganza,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">on behalf of la calabaza.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">raza rise from the south,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">close to pumpkin’s native birthplace,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">up to its new home north, factory rat race,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">with 10 weeks of good wages in the bargain.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">heat and jargon turn up pressure gauges,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">the beat rages <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">over 12-hour days, seven a week,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">pumpkin gold catches its fall winning streak.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">men and women line up<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">for cleanin’, slicin’, sortin’ <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">up here in Morton, Illinois, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">not a mecca of salt,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">but perhaps sweat and tears,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">where workers keep returning<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">after 10 and 20 years.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">they’ve even built a church around it<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">in old Soledad,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">la calabaza, el norte and God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">by November, raza again heads south to Mexico,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">the Morton factory turns quiet,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">while throughout the USA, another riot,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">as cans of pumpkin fly off grocery shelves.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">the forefront of another Thanksgiving,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">to make a pie, then get on with real living.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">another slice of pumpkin pie, then back to video games, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">how is it that no one asks or wishes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">to know where pumpkins start out<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">or who brought them to the end of the line.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">please pass the wine.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">after the last empty can’s discarded<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">and final hunk of pie digested,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">with another hefty slice of cash,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">for their annual 10-week drill,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">when the autumn beat <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">in Morton, Ill.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">"Beat of the Pumpkin Drum" originally appear in <i>Big Scream</i> magazine and as part of my full collection <i><a href="http://bit.ly/foodpoetry" target="_blank">Epicurean Ecstasy: More Poems About Food, Drink, Herbs & Spices</a> </i>(The Poetry Box, </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">Portland)</span></div>
Cynthia Gallaherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04528052139106896290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8655077.post-34069447404038520952019-07-27T09:21:00.000-05:002019-07-27T09:25:13.041-05:00Sestina poem for Bernie Sanders<span style="font-size: large;">Way back in 1986, poet Allen Ginsberg wrote a poem about Bernie Sanders. I am no Allen Ginsberg, but today I offer a recent sestina poem I wrote in Bernie Sanders' voice (words my own, but inspired by Bernie).</span><br />
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six lines and a final triplet. All stanzas have the same six words at the
line-ends in six different sequences that follow a fixed pattern. All six words
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poem are: grassroots, billionaires, our, wages, street, debt.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11.5pt;">was it worth a lifetime dedicated to
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11.5pt;">ideals, while one percent of our wealth
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11.5pt;">hands? I’m old, you’re young, it’s Our<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11.5pt;">Revolution, to speak up for higher
wages,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11.5pt;">to call out the special interests, Wall
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11.5pt;">the cushy expungers who’ve left us in
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11.5pt;">it’s not to Congress, but to you I’m
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11.5pt;">let’s take the grassroots<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11.5pt;">to the White House, take our voices into
the streets,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11.5pt;">hold onto what’s valuable save the
greed of billionaires,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11.5pt;">max up the minimum wage,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11.5pt;">declare health and education ours.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11.5pt;">will it take the time Egyptians built
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11.5pt;">younger generation to pay off their
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11.5pt;">can we expect wage slave owners to
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11.5pt;">would a skyscraper bow down to its
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11.5pt;">could a pseudo-billionaire promise to
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11.5pt;">will this highway to hell we’re on pave
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11.5pt;">to comprehend our grave issues doesn’t
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11.5pt;">economy. There’s been an uptick of
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11.5pt;">yet with heads barely above water, the
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11.5pt;">if we’d grab one end of a rope at the
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11.5pt;">corrupt leaders don’t believe that the
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11.5pt;">of sin is death. They look at our powerful
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11.5pt;">value. Lavish lawn parties are their
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11.5pt;">they believe in holding our <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11.5pt;">infrastructure, climate future &
immigrant children as bargaining tools, debts<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11.5pt;">that everyone in America will pay for,
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11.5pt;">the rich in compassion and action are
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11.5pt;">but big business and big pharma won’t
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11.5pt;">to look out for one another should be
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11.5pt;">instead of chasing the empty dream of
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11.5pt;">wages are for all our benefit? Banded
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11.5pt;">sewer depths of debt to solid street
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You’ve probably heard at least a little if not a lot about
CBD oil lately. It’s all in the news and in magazine articles. CBD is short for cannabidiol, a substance extracted from industrial hemp, legal in all 50
states.<br />
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To explain CBD oil, let’s begin with what it is NOT. CBD is
NOT marijuana, with its high levels of THC, which get you high. CBD oil has only
trace amounts of THC, does not get you high, but has more cannabinoids (of which cannabidiol is one among many) to
benefit health issues such as anxiety, sleeplessness, inflammation, seizures
and headaches.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>CBD oil is NOT hemp seed oil,
which people use in foods and/or take as a supplement for its Omega 3s. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The best CBD oil is full-spectrum hemp extract oil, which
uses the whole hemp plant, thus offering a wide array or “entourage effect” of
cannabinoids to address, which in the last several decades, what has been
discovered as your endocannabinoid system.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This endocannabinoid system is made up of receptor cells throughout your
body, abundant in the brain, central and peripheral nervous systems and the
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The cannabinoids in CBD oil bind to these receptors to bring
homeostatis or balance to such issues as chronic fatigue, migraines, insomnia, IBS,
depression, anxiety, pain, and other physical and emotional imbalances. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> And</span> again, CBD oil does NOT get you high like
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As a registered yoga instructor and certified
aromatherapist, I am able to offer a line of CBD oils (full-spectrum hemp extract oil) from the company
Nutritional Frontiers, which is not available in stores but through healthcare
practitioners only such as myself. These CBD oils provide a higher potency than most popular
retail CBD oils, even those in apothecaries. And I offer them at a lower price
for such high potency, and far lower than suggested retail price. The plants
are sustainably grown in Colorado (News flash: And now <b>USDA Certified Organic!</b>)and the CBD oil is extracted from the hemp
plant using the best CO2 method. <o:p></o:p></div>
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If you are interested in finding out more information on what
these CBD oils, softgels or gummies can do for your health needs, please shoot
me an email at <a href="mailto:clvcpoet@yahoo.com">clvcpoet@yahoo.com</a> or message me on Facebook. I
can then send you literature about it in PDF form, and would be more than happy to answer your specific
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<!--EndFragment--><br />Cynthia Gallaherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04528052139106896290noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8655077.post-23741499620721327192019-05-25T07:51:00.000-05:002019-05-25T07:55:11.524-05:00Frugal poet's guide to "Happy Hour" dining<i><b><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></b></i>
<i><b><span style="font-size: large;">From selling floor to the slam, from cubicle to podium. Where to go in between? Happy hour!</span></b></i><br />
As a frugal poet, my dinners were usually eaten at my kitchen table, as were breakfasts. Lunches were brown bagged, unless the current employment powers that be would pop for an occasional pizza party or barbecue. But what happens when you want to catch a poetry reading relatively soon after work? Take in happy hour!<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguuFVhY4pmK8BLaxtmD_6pyvA5zwuEWGhBiVVW1AzrdZo7e-DY3e-J2fMAsHkVXDa8OTfoL5-Rpll2ydGA9Ek1WnDIsvRfW2Fg-lQeExKeMqo6-uNPOWBtiWsUF5N9JHU82zJqRg/s1600/ChicagoRiverside.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="288" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguuFVhY4pmK8BLaxtmD_6pyvA5zwuEWGhBiVVW1AzrdZo7e-DY3e-J2fMAsHkVXDa8OTfoL5-Rpll2ydGA9Ek1WnDIsvRfW2Fg-lQeExKeMqo6-uNPOWBtiWsUF5N9JHU82zJqRg/s400/ChicagoRiverside.jpg" width="400" /></a>Frugal poets likely haven’t the cash flow to treat themselves to downtown dinners. There may be no time to stop home, but you don’t want your stomach to growl and be heard over the P.A. system during your reading at an open mic.<br />
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Happy hours at the local pub/grill, usually starting anywhere as early as 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. and lasting to 6 p.m. or 7 p.m. or so depending on the venue, can make the joyful transition between you and hunger on those nights you can’t and don’t want to hurry home to eat. When the poetic muse of the night calls and you don’t want to accept the invitation in a cranky mood from lack of calories, you may find yourself at an outdoor café noshing "happy hour" specially priced tidbits to hold you over, watching the urban hoopla whisk by.<br />
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Better yet, look for citified venues that offer happy hour and are also situated by a river, lake or ocean. During your brief, but happy, respite, you’ll be front row to the exact same views residents in nearby apartments or homes pay dearly for.<br />
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Happy hour! Drinks are certainly discounted. And when else might you get 10-cent chicken wings, dollar tacos or burgers, $2 bar bites or beers, and even $3 complete meals? The bewitching happy hour may take place on certain nights of the week, sometimes every week night, depending on the establishment. Find yourself there, frugal poet!<br />
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Chicagoans might want to read <a href="https://chicago.eater.com/2018/1/10/16871020/chicagos-happy-hour-specials-bar-restaurant-discounts" target="_blank">11 Happy Hour Specials to Try in Chicago Now</a>.<br />
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As well, find out more frugal poet ways to live an elegant life on little in my nonfiction creativity guide, memoir and reference, <i><a href="https://store.bookbaby.com/book/Frugal-Poets-Guide-to-Life" target="_blank">Frugal Poets' Guide to Life: How to Live a Poetic Life, Even If You Aren't a Poet.</a></i>Cynthia Gallaherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04528052139106896290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8655077.post-73197719803484180312019-05-09T07:38:00.002-05:002019-05-09T07:49:39.818-05:00What is a poetry chapbook?<span style="background-color: #e7ffd0; color: #333333; font-family: "times" , serif; font-size: 13.26px;">Chapbooks were originally small, inexpensive books sold from street carts by merry olde English peddlers called chapmen. From the 1500s through part of the 1800s, these little books, on a variety of topics, were so cheap that once their owners read them, the pages were often used as “bum fodder” (toilet paper).<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #e7ffd0; color: #333333; font-family: "times" , serif; font-size: 13.26px;">Today, modern chapbooks have risen in status (most certainly from bum fodder), and are a popular method for publishing poetry. Running only 40 pages or fewer, chapbooks are shorter in length than a perfect bound full poetry collection, and are usually saddle stitched with staples along a folded spine.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #e7ffd0; color: #333333; font-family: "times" , serif; font-size: 13.26px;">Many new poets who may not have written enough poems for a full collection might get more immediate exposure through a chapbook. Also, poets who write a series of poems that connect with one another, or are all on the same or loosely related theme may opt to get a chapbook published.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #e7ffd0; color: #333333; font-family: "times" , serif; font-size: 13.26px;">There are dozens of poetry chapbook contests each year offered by small press or university publishers. Many presses may opt to publish at least part of their output as chapbooks rather than full collections due to tight budgets or, conversely, to be able to publish more poets! Contests are often the vehicle toward chapbook publication in order for all entrants to help contribute toward the manuscript that will ultimately be chosen. This custom is very common and totally acceptable. Chapbook contests also offer presses a way to scope out new or original talent they may not have been exposed to through the full collection submissions they receive.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #e7ffd0; color: #333333; font-family: "times" , serif; font-size: 13.26px;">Poets may also prefer to publish a chapbook themselves. With the use of page design programs, clip art, stock photos and speedy printers, a short run of chapbooks doesn’t cost much and can serve as a “calling card” for poets who seek featured readings at local venues, and finally have a way of sharing (and selling) a printed selection of poems with friends, family and fellow poets who’ve been asking, “Where can I find more of your poems?”</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #e7ffd0; color: #333333; font-family: "times" , serif; font-size: 13.26px;">Read more about chapbooks and how to create your own step-by-step in my nonfiction book <i><a href="https://store.bookbaby.com/book/Frugal-Poets-Guide-to-Life" target="_blank">Frugal Poet's Guide to Life: How to Live a Poetic Life, Even If You Aren't a Poet.</a></i></span>Cynthia Gallaherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04528052139106896290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8655077.post-30833081632292344472019-04-27T07:07:00.000-05:002019-04-27T07:07:56.136-05:00Do you have the characteristics of the creative personality?<h3 class="post-title entry-title" style="color: #400058; font-family: Times, serif; font-size: 19.89px; line-height: 1.4em; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; text-size-adjust: auto;">
In his classic book<span class="Apple-converted-space" style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-size: 13.26px;"> </span><em style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-size: 13.26px;">Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention</em><span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-size: 13.26px;">, author and creativity researcher Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi outlines the characteristics of creative individuals. He wrote, “If there is one word that makes creative people different from others, it is the word complexity. Instead of being an individual, they are a multitude.”</span></h3>
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Some of the creative characteristics to look for, which he discusses in his book:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />1. A great deal of physical energy alternating with a great need for quiet and rest.<br />2. Highly sexual, yet often celibate, especially when working.<br />3. Both extravagant and spartan.<br />4. Smart and naïve at the same time. A mix of wisdom and childishness. Emotional immaturity along with the deepest insights.<br />5. Convergent (rational, left brain, sound judgment) and divergent (intuitive, right brain, visionary) thinking. Divergence is the ability to generate a great quantity of ideas, to switch from one perspective to another, and to pick unusual associations of ideas. Convergence involves evaluation and choice. Creative people have the capacity to think both ways.<br />6. Both extroverted and introverted, needing people and solitude equally.<br />7. Humble and proud, both painfully self-doubting and wildly self-confident.<br />8. May defy gender stereotypes, and are likely to have not only the strengths of their own gender but those of the other as well. A kind of psychic androgyny.<br />9. Can be rebellious and independent on one hand, and traditional and conservative on the other.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br />10. A natural openness and sensitivity that often exposes them to extreme suffering and pain, yet also to a great deal of enjoyment. Despair alternates with bliss, despair when they aren’t working, and bliss when they are.<br /><br />Does this sound like you or someone you might know? If so, keep up the creativity!</div>
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Learn more about creativity and the creative process in my book <i><a href="https://store.bookbaby.com/book/Frugal-Poets-Guide-to-Life" target="_blank">Frugal Poets' Guide to Life: How to Live a Poetic Life, Even If You Aren't a Poet.</a></i></div>
Cynthia Gallaherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04528052139106896290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8655077.post-3306338821474929952019-03-16T09:31:00.001-05:002019-03-17T05:07:26.055-05:00How my stepdad dyed the Chicago River green on St. Paddy's DayMy stepfather John worked as an administrator for the Port of Chicago back in the 1960s, which had its offices at Navy Pier. One of his duties was to check on all the bridges and bridgetenders along the Chicago River. He also personally presented Hizzoner Mayor Richard J. Daley with the Port of Chicago budget every year.<br />
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A special side job he was assigned and undertook was to find the dye that could tint the Chicago River green for St. Patrick's Day. He journeyed from vendor to vendor to find a powerful dye that could do the job. Eventually, he was presented with an orange powder that magically turned green when it hit water. There is no formal record of my stepdad's role in this St. Patrick's Day tradition. Seems politicians & plumbers of that 1960s era have taken most of the credit.<br />
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However, the following poem I wrote will always be a testament to my stepfather, John, and the spiritual generations after him that enjoy his small, but powerful contribution to Chicago history.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">The Leprechaun from Blue Island Avenue<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Who Dyed the River Green<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><i>"Methinks my own soul must be a bright
invisible green."<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">He’d
touch one magic crystal<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">greener
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Instead
of chasing rainbows<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">he
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> from the one arching across<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">State
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">and
wove wet edges of downtown Chicago<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">to a
new tradition, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">a new
passion for the river;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">bolted
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">this
wide, wet meander, until today,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">as
plain as the weathered deck of a barge.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">A new
tradition, too,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">receiving
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">the
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all our wedding, communion and even funeral guests.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Who
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">to
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">like
crazed blenders<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> into the Chicago River,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">dumping
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">that
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the clang, clang,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Photo credit: Barry Butler</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; layout-grid-mode: line; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">The above poem is included in my poetry collection about Chicago <i><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3067141-swimmer-s-prayer" target="_blank">Swimmer's Prayer</a></i>. </span></div>
<!--EndFragment-->Cynthia Gallaherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04528052139106896290noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8655077.post-74955945869266540152019-03-10T09:09:00.000-05:002019-03-10T17:22:33.134-05:00Let wabi-sabi take a brushstroke to your frugal poet life<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<i style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><u>Second in a series</u></i><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">What does wabi-sabi have to do with being a frugal
poet? Wabi-sabi, </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">though quintessentially Japanese</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">, can be applied to any culture’s poetry</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"> and is, in
fact, an </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">integral part of the poetic
nature at large</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">, whether we realize it or not. Published writing is usually
rewritten, edited and polished writing, set in symmetrical fonts and printed in
uniform</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"> order and quality.</span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0tJEmndut02sEYSShExzA3cn4cFjpccjCYoNAu7eWKUpKFqbO_fA5vG0zPh1QHM2cbUYWIqw0R8pnqQpXG9wbWL6maUwqFIUWiXvFsMxq04D7_zF2ZYJM9rgLoZRy-5_HeUc7aQ/s1600/paulvalery1-2x.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="630" data-original-width="1200" height="105" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0tJEmndut02sEYSShExzA3cn4cFjpccjCYoNAu7eWKUpKFqbO_fA5vG0zPh1QHM2cbUYWIqw0R8pnqQpXG9wbWL6maUwqFIUWiXvFsMxq04D7_zF2ZYJM9rgLoZRy-5_HeUc7aQ/s200/paulvalery1-2x.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">Poetry, in its early creation</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">, is
composed of our raw thoughts or emotions, scribbled down in an unsteady hand on
a commuter train or a dimly lit kitchen. Perhaps the pages are occasionally
smudged with ink or stained by drops of coffee. Entries may be heartfelt and
passionate, but can simultaneously be random, incomplete, unconventional and
bold, without needing to please an audience.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">I wish more
of my poetry writing and creative writing</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"> students would take this approach. You need to
get dirty digging a foundation before building a lofty structure. The idea is
to let creativity unfold naturally, even when flawed. Get the ideas and images
down on paper, and leave all the formal tweaking, rewriting and readjusting
kept for later.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">And while we
work to fix part of a piece, we most likely mar another, however slight the
blow. The imperfection in nearly any process we undertake only shows how human
we are. It is human and perfectly natural not to be perfect! And writing is no
exception.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">The </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">process of writing a poem may ultimately add up to a
complete picture or an epiphany of revelation. But most often, our trips toward
a poetic destination most often start as a modest journey. We follow a foggy
pathway with no promise of reaching a clearing. But we have faith.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">At its most
distill</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">ed, wabi-sabi </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">exemplifies
a sense of faith -- in yourself and in the promise of what you strive for,
whether it’s poetry or any other creative discipline. According to poet Wallace
Stevens, “The imperfect is our paradise.” We try, we fail, we pick up again and
find new revelation. If you expect creativity to be a perfect journey, it’s a
delusion.</span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9kFMZfdySM5D6IKJ1IT2TISOQLef41HMxx_BxQQeN307YY71zojGLyyavXLXk5ECuekzlGK5QpWVVvAAKccn4R01QFiuxAL5mBN07nHe3CC3w3kVfkf8dTTzrZOkfhXZ6LKwvtg/s1600/CoffeeRing.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="246" data-original-width="205" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9kFMZfdySM5D6IKJ1IT2TISOQLef41HMxx_BxQQeN307YY71zojGLyyavXLXk5ECuekzlGK5QpWVVvAAKccn4R01QFiuxAL5mBN07nHe3CC3w3kVfkf8dTTzrZOkfhXZ6LKwvtg/s200/CoffeeRing.jpeg" width="166" /></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">As humans, and frugal poets, we must accept our
imperfections, though we consistently struggle to be the best </span>we can. One of my
favorite quotes acknowledges human frailty in the midst of writing a poem. French
critic and poet Paul Valery said, “A poem is never finished, only abandoned.” I
can work and rework a poem many times over, but the moment finally arrives when
I must let it go, let it be where it is, and allow it to find a landing place
(or not) in my sheaf of collected works.<br />
##<br />
<br />
The above excerpt is from my reference, memoir and creativity guide <i><a href="https://store.bookbaby.com/book/Frugal-Poets-Guide-to-Life" target="_blank">Frugal Poets' Guide to Life: How to Live a Poetic Life, Even If You Aren't a Poet</a></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="passage-display-bcv" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; margin: 0px; padding-right: 6px;">In parting, consider this Bible verse:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="text 2Cor-12-9" id="en-NASB-29032" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="versenum" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;">9 </span>And He has said to me,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="woj" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">“My grace is sufficient for you, for<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NASB-29032A" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NASB-29032A" title="See cross-reference A">A</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span>power is perfected in weakness.” </span>Most gladly, therefore, I will rather<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NASB-29032B" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NASB-29032B" title="See cross-reference B">B</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span>boast<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may dwell in me.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="text 2Cor-12-10" id="en-NASB-29033" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="versenum" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;">10 </span>Therefore<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NASB-29033C" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NASB-29033C" title="See cross-reference C">C</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span>I am well content with weaknesses, with<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>insults, with<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NASB-29033D" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NASB-29033D" title="See cross-reference D">D</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span>distresses, with<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NASB-29033E" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NASB-29033E" title="See cross-reference E">E</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span>persecutions, with<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NASB-29033F" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NASB-29033F" title="See cross-reference F">F</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span>difficulties,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NASB-29033G" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NASB-29033G" title="See cross-reference G">G</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span>for Christ’s sake; for<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-NASB-29033H" data-link="(<a href="#cen-NASB-29033H" title="See cross-reference H">H</a>)" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></span>when I am weak, then I am strong.</span></span></div>
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<i style="font-size: 11pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><u>First in a series</u></span></i><br />
<i style="font-size: 11pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Smiley-face note:</span></i><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"> Wabi-sabi is not to be confused with wasabi, a hot
green horseradish paste commonly served next to Japanese sushi.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Japan, one
of the most refined, thoughtful and poetic societies of the world has gone
through unfathomable disasters in modern history. More recently is the profound
earthquake, tsunami and nuclear catastrophe at Fukushima. Nevertheless, the
Japanese people continue to push forward in quiet strength, dedicated to and
motivated by their culture, history, sense of humility and connection with one
another. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Wabi-sabi is
</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">a philosophy based in Japan that embraces
a sense of flawed beauty, the profundity in nature, and </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">of th</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">ings impermanent, humble, primitive, transient and </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">inco</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">mplete. It celebrates the</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> modest,
rustic and unconventional.</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"> It is the
organic versus synthetic, the rough-hewn and uneven over the measured and
laser-edged. Loosely explained, wabi means a philosophy of imperfect, natural
beauty, and sabi means the artistic expression of what’s asymmetrical, aged or
unpretentious. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Daisetz Suzuki, one of the first scholars to interpret
Japanese culture for Westerners, considered wabi-sabi “an active aesthetical
appreciation of poverty.” Rather than a poverty of pain and a sense of
desperation, it instead gives the relief of removing the weight of material
concerns from our lives. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Wabi-sabi suggests the notions that nothing lasts,
nothing is finished, nothing is perfect. The Persians are known for a proverb
about the true beauty of rugs, “A Persian rug is perfectly imperfect, and precisely
imprecise.” Although spoken from a culture different than Japan’s, such a
sentiment is truly a wabi-sabi one.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Remarkably, wabi-sabi has everything to do with the
spirit of the frugal poet. We exist. We go with the flow. We focus on the
beautiful. We have strength in light of hardship or snags in our lives. And our
poems reflect this attitude. The concept of wabi-sabi reminds me of the lyrics
in Leonard Cohen’s song “Anthem,” “Ring the bells that still can ring/Forget
your perfect offering/There’s a crack in everything/That’s how the light gets
in.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">It is the poets and those with a frugal poet’s spirit
who can see both implicit meaning and opportunity in any situation, and can
find voice, or at least search for it, to express compassion and humanity even
amid injustice or when in mourning. Such is wabi-sabi.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">One summer, I signed up for a multi-evening workshop
in the craft of handmade bookbinding at Chicago’s Hull House. Our upper floor
studio itself was a wabi-sabi environment of lovingly worn benches, nicked but
well-used work surfaces and natural lighting pouring in from screenless
windows. We used handcrafted papers, linen thread, monster-sized needles, scads
of glue, bone folders, thick slices of cardboard and stiff oilcloth in an array
of colors. There, I crafted and sewed a number of hardcover blank books,
Japanese side-stitched bindings and cloth-covered boxes. The best part, we all helped one
another try to get the techniques down as well as share our ideas. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">I openly admired one fellow student’s finished
handmade book, even though the pages were a bit uneven and wavy. “The only
thing perfect is God,” she said, and matter of factly continued her work. I
often remember her words in the midst of struggles. I am imperfect and every
act of creation carries human imperfection along with it. In the bookbinder’s
imperfection lay the beauty of her handmade book. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Flawed fictional characters, for example, are more
interesting, textured, memorable and beautiful than perfect, static ones. What
would Cyrano de Bergerac be without his big nose, The Little Match Girl without
her poverty, or even Star Trek’s Mr. Spock without his lack of emotions? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Below, I attempt to pin down concrete examples of what
wabi-sabi may be and what wabi-sabi may not be. You may disagree with some of
the entries. You might like to try the same exercise and see where your own concepts
surrounding wabi-sabi may lie.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Musings as to
what wabi-sabi can stand for:<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;">
<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "symbol"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> ~ </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">The haunted
mansion versus the McMansion.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "symbol"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> ~ </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">The vase off to
one side instead of the center of the table.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;">
<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "symbol"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> ~ </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">A piece of
driftwood carved by water instead of a diamond faceted by human hands.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;">
<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "symbol"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> ~ </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">A simple one-pot,
home-cooked meal versus a block-long Las Vegas table buffet.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;">
<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "symbol"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> ~ </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">A weekend of
solitude versus a month of whirlwind travel with a dozen destinations.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;">
<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "symbol"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> ~ </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">The hand-polished
wood floor, simple room-divider screen and rolled-up futon versus a
football-field-sized bedroom with wall-to-wall carpeting, big screen TV and
thick brocade drapes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;">
<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "symbol"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> ~ </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Browns, greens,
grays and off-whites of nature versus neon, day-glow bright pinks and electric
blues.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;">
<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "symbol"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> ~ </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Rock, leather,
wood, candles and copper instead of steel, LED lights, vinyl, mirrors and
glass.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;">
<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "symbol"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> ~ </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">A coffee-stained,
hand-illustrated journal filled with random thoughts instead of the
word-perfect, crisply printed scholarly treatise.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;">
<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "symbol"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> ~ </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">A wind-blown
scattering of fall leaves on a neatly raked Zen garden. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;">
<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "symbol"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> ~ </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">The changing
nature of paper and cloth as they fade, fray and tear.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;">
<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "symbol"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> ~ </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Floors cleanly
swept, laundry folded and beds made without regard to the type of flooring,
price of clothing and thread count of bed sheets.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;">
<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "symbol"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> ~ </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">A few handpicked
flowers in a bud vase versus a formal English garden. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;">
<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "symbol"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> ~ </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">The patina versus
the polish.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "symbol"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> ~ </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">The flea market filled
with surprises versus the big box store of generic goods.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;">
<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "symbol"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> ~ </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">The used and
cared for versus the new, flimsy and garish.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "symbol"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> ~ </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Living happily in
simplicity instead of sadly in luxury.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br />
The above is an excerpt from my reference, memoir and creativity guide <i><a href="https://store.bookbaby.com/book/Frugal-Poets-Guide-to-Life" target="_blank">Frugal Poets' Guide to Life: How to Live a Poetic Life, Even If You Aren't a Poet.</a></i><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">In addition to poetry, I have a fascination with the
stage and theater, at least from a writer’s perspective. At the urging of friend
Terry Soto, who also was an avid playgoer, I volunteered evenings (circa 1975?) at the small
St. Nicholas Theater Company in Chicago on Halsted Street, north of Diversey.
The theater space occupied what was once an auto repair shop. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">William H. Macy (right) in "American Buffalo"</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">It was founded by
the then little known Chicago-based playwright David Mamet and actor William H.
Macy. Many of Mamet’s early plays were launched at this little Chicago theater,
such as “The Water Engine” and “American Buffalo,” in which Macy appeared. As a
volunteer, I answered the phone, helped with the mailings, sat in rehearsals
and attended as many performances as I wanted.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">People who worked in the theater kept asking me what I was
doing there, what I wanted to get out of volunteering. Did I want to become an
actress? I wasn’t sure at that stage of my life if I wanted to write plays. I
did love the plays of Arthur Miller and Eugene O’Neill, which oozed with poetry
as well as edge-of-your-seat drama. At that moment, I merely reveled in just
being around a theater and seeing what evolved to bring a play to life. I had
no personal goals beyond enjoying my experiences there. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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At St. Nicholas, I met lots of actors, took voice
lessons (mainly with the goal of improving the way I read my poetry aloud) and
knew if I wanted to, I might likely meet someone to go out with. No one,
however, particularly attracted me.<br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">As an equity actor, William H. Macy had to take on a
longer and more formal name to distinguish him from Bill Macy, who played the
husband to Bea Arthur of “Maude,” a popular show on TV at the time. Today,
nobody remembers Bill Macy but everyone knows William H. Macy. Back at St.
Nicholas Theater, I took one look at Macy and thought, not very charitably,
“That little shrimp isn’t going anywhere.” How totally and utterly wrong I was!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Romance may not always be in the air during your
extracurricular activities, but you are never wasting time if you are doing
something you enjoy and stimulates you. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Getting
involved in the theater showed me how the element of poetry woven in seamlessly
within truly expert dramatic dialogue could be applied to my own poetry.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The previous piece appears in my nonfiction memoir, reference and creativity guide <a href="https://store.bookbaby.com/book/Frugal-Poets-Guide-to-Life" target="_blank">Frugal Poets' Guide to Life: How to Live a Poetic Life, Even If You Aren't a Poet</a>.</span>Cynthia Gallaherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04528052139106896290noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8655077.post-38689959335045697732019-02-23T12:10:00.005-06:002020-09-09T10:51:50.340-05:00Frugal poet’s pre-natal & pre-conception memories<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWvxnz2ghINsfqsXGA7rs85DDf98hRWfSeQ98FplukgAZLXrpcdbh6G0DhYSM2yi3fvgjn0jaJIoJpo5vzoeeivq7IApJQtyzFPVZ-H4R5fHYuNAa8MRxlWt5qFl9tv0WlILxh-w/s1600/Heaven.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="834" data-original-width="600" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWvxnz2ghINsfqsXGA7rs85DDf98hRWfSeQ98FplukgAZLXrpcdbh6G0DhYSM2yi3fvgjn0jaJIoJpo5vzoeeivq7IApJQtyzFPVZ-H4R5fHYuNAa8MRxlWt5qFl9tv0WlILxh-w/s200/Heaven.jpg" width="143" /></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">Some may call it
poetic license. I call it memories before birth and even before conception. More
and more people have publicly claimed similar memories. And now I suppose, so
do I.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">As a child, I
often told my mother I remember being in her womb, and also when I was first
born. She told me I was only imagining it. But it goes back farther. I had
outlined in a previous post what I believe to be my immediate previous life to
this as a <a href="http://journaltips.blogspot.com/2019/02/childhood-reincarnation-memory-from.html" target="_blank">little girl who had died in a European avalanche</a>. Perhaps after that
death, this is where my story begins. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">I was in a
heavenly place among many “friends.” Day-after-day we coalesced almost as one.
The spirit of God was all around us. It was bright and puffy cloud-like and pillar-like,
just as in the Olympian stories. We sang in a high-tone sing/speech as if part
of a Greek chorus. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">Finally, the
time arrived for me to go on my next mission. I was sad to leave them all, and
they were all around to bid me farewell. At that moment, I felt I was a feminine
spirit. I said something like, “Well, you know where I’m going. I may not be
back.” I spoke this in both a humorous tone but also with a deep
seriousness. They answered in Greek
chorus fashion all at the same time in a sing-speak, “Oh, you’ll be back.
You’ll be back.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">The next thing I
knew, I was hovering above electrical wires at the main intersection of my new
neighborhood in Chicago. It was night. The street lights were on. An electrical
power station lie kiddy-corner from the intersection halfway down the street. I
felt my entire body float horizontal in one of my incarnations previous to the
little girl avalanche victim incarnation. It was one as a full-grown male
scientist who had lived in Germany.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
was as if the little girl incarnation had been a short and sweet interlude
between lives. And now, I felt as if I were about to experience my first
incarnation in the United States.</span></div>
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<o:p></o:p><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">In the distance
I could see my new house a few blocks away on a residential street. In the
bedroom were my future mother and father. I swooped down and, in a flash of
light, I was conceived.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">As the months
within my mother’s womb transpired, I recall the bliss of floating in the warm amniotic
fluid and waiting. My favorite time was when my mother disrobed and a glowing
peach-colored light filled the womb. This beautiful light brought me such joy.
When my mother covered up again and all went dark, I was a little disappointed.
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">My mother had a
difficult labor with me, and doctors were afraid that either she or I would die
at the hospital. I was born with my umbilical cord wrapped around my neck, but
first around my shoulders. Fortunately, because of that, my air was not cut
off.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I do not remember my birth per se,
but remember lying next to my mother in brilliant white sheets. The doctor came
in some time after the delivery and I remember him talking with my mother and
smiling down at me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">I knew where I
had just come from, but didn’t know where I was now. It was all so new and
unfamiliar. Nonetheless, I was quite happy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">The following is
a poem I wrote about my previous incarnation as a German scientist, which
appeared in my book of Chicago poems <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Swimmers-Prayer-Cynthia-Gallaher/dp/1892034026" target="_blank">Swimmer’sPrayer</a></i>:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<h2 style="line-height: 12pt; mso-pagination: none;">
<span style="layout-grid-mode: line;">The Immigrant<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; mso-pagination: none;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; layout-grid-mode: line;">They found someone
to replace me<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; mso-pagination: none;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; layout-grid-mode: line;">at the laboratory,
or was it the drafting table,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; mso-pagination: none;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; layout-grid-mode: line;">it’s hard now to
remember<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; mso-pagination: none;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; layout-grid-mode: line;">exactly where I sat
pouring over<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; mso-pagination: none;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; layout-grid-mode: line;">cryptic notes for
thirty years.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; mso-pagination: none;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; mso-pagination: none;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; layout-grid-mode: line;">My wife prayed
every night <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; mso-pagination: none;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; layout-grid-mode: line;">the first six
months after it happened,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; mso-pagination: none;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; layout-grid-mode: line;">and a gray angel
let me know<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; layout-grid-mode: line;">that all was well,
life continued for her and my children.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; mso-pagination: none;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; layout-grid-mode: line;">The wire-rimmed
young man with a stutter<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; mso-pagination: none;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; layout-grid-mode: line;">who seemed
confounded by what I left <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; mso-pagination: none;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; layout-grid-mode: line;">under the shop’s
dangling lamps<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; layout-grid-mode: line;">eventually
surpassed me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; mso-pagination: none;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; layout-grid-mode: line;">In this half earth,
half death,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; mso-pagination: none;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; layout-grid-mode: line;">I hover at Harlem
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; mso-pagination: none;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; layout-grid-mode: line;">over electrical and
telephone lines<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; mso-pagination: none;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; layout-grid-mode: line;">which even one-up
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; layout-grid-mode: line;">and what we all
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; layout-grid-mode: line;">in cold-connected
rooms that smelled<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; mso-pagination: none;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; layout-grid-mode: line;">of vinegar and
burnt hair.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; mso-pagination: none;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; layout-grid-mode: line;">I always wanted to
come to America,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; mso-pagination: none;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; layout-grid-mode: line;">and who knows how
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; mso-pagination: none;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; layout-grid-mode: line;">have taken the
conventional method,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; mso-pagination: none;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; layout-grid-mode: line;">the conversations
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; layout-grid-mode: line;">just inches below
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; mso-pagination: none;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; layout-grid-mode: line;">And electrical
charges from nearby lines,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; layout-grid-mode: line;">destined to
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; layout-grid-mode: line;">at a house a few
blocks away <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; layout-grid-mode: line;">from where I float,
do warm me,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; mso-pagination: none;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; layout-grid-mode: line;">but what I really
want <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; mso-pagination: none;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; layout-grid-mode: line;">is not what man has
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; mso-pagination: none;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; layout-grid-mode: line;">so I wait, in the
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; mso-pagination: none;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; mso-pagination: none;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; layout-grid-mode: line;">After the party, in
the dark, a woman loves a man.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; mso-pagination: none;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; layout-grid-mode: line;">I draw closer, and
find I miss these earthly passions,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; mso-pagination: none;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; layout-grid-mode: line;">off and on and
uneven as rocky ledges.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; mso-pagination: none;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; layout-grid-mode: line;">I draw closer, and
fall in love with both of them,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; mso-pagination: none;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; layout-grid-mode: line;">and in turn,
unknowing in their delirium,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; mso-pagination: none;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; layout-grid-mode: line;">they invite me to
carry on the work they started,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt; mso-pagination: none;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; layout-grid-mode: line;">and from this
woman’s womb,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; layout-grid-mode: line;">I barely begin to understand a new century, a new city.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span><i>~ Cynthia Gallaher</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">##<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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up from an afternoon nap, bitterly and inconsolably crying after a dream. I had
just re-lived, in the dream, a death I experienced in Switzerland in which my
St. Bernard dog and I, a little girl of age 6 or 7, had been crushed under a
giant avalanche.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">My mother rushed in to
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dogs.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">I later pointed out a St. Bernard
dog, which I had never seen before in this life, during one of our car trips. I
told my mother that that was the dog from my dream experience. Only then did I
learn what that dog was actually called.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Years later, during a teenage basement séance in my girlfriend’s basement, we put flashlights under our faces. A boy looked at me and told me I had been a little girl in </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Austria in my past life.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">Later, a psychic told me I had died in an avalanche in my last life. And more recently, a special on PBS showed avalanche victims from early 1950s Austria who had been dragged out from under the </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;">snow. </span>My husband said, “That’s you they’re taking out.” Even more recently, with the
heralding of the Internet, I learned about the series of devastating avalanches
that took place in Austria and Switzerland over the course of the winter of
1950-51 called the “<a href="https://unofficialnetworks.com/2013/04/30/10-deadly-avalanches/" target="_blank">Winter of Terror</a>.”<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhp7m9FlrG3OdqINM8tq7EGXvmK_vIQgKLq1uWLPoGxRwg0SvMcFYwOlhRyE6gTG3cILqHOgC09UkEtMOGikFT5yHAR7B75tivhfkNJGuiUL72Kf_krn_1f8DLjVrJ5GyKxid_3wQ/s1600/WinterofTerror1951.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="393" data-original-width="599" height="130" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhp7m9FlrG3OdqINM8tq7EGXvmK_vIQgKLq1uWLPoGxRwg0SvMcFYwOlhRyE6gTG3cILqHOgC09UkEtMOGikFT5yHAR7B75tivhfkNJGuiUL72Kf_krn_1f8DLjVrJ5GyKxid_3wQ/s200/WinterofTerror1951.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">In this three-month period,
an unprecedented number of avalanches took place in the Alps,
Austria-Switzerland border. The series of 649 avalanches killed over 265 people
and caused large amounts of damage to residential and other human-made
structures. These avalanches were thought to be caused by high precipitations making the
meeting of an Atlantic warm front with a polar cold front. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">In the town of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjQB-b66NG8" target="_blank">Andermatt Switzerland</a>, avalanches were so common that they suffered six of them in only
one hour, killing 13 people. This particular incident took place in January
1951. I appeared on the scene in Chicago in January 1953. I am not sure if I
died in Andermatt, in Austria, or even among these “Winter of Terror”
avalanches specifically. But if anyone can find any documentation of a little
girl and her St. Bernard being found together in a European avalanche, please let me
know. Here is a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjQB-b66NG8" target="_blank">video</a> of the rescue efforts after the Andermatt avalance.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The following is a poem I
wrote about the avalanche dream experience:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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The Girl Child</h1>
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skied past,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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snow so cold and damp<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">it
gasped for breath,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">in
time with the crackling fire<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">of
our morning cabin.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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portraits, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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dozen colors, my mittens<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">formed
snowballs before me,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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one, a white heart,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">a
daytime comet destined<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">to
startle my dog with light.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">It
was like a miscalculated turn<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">of
a ski pole when wind hit our faces,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">where
burst of white met<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">shaggy
St. Bernard mid-air,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">he leapt
to play,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">and
jumped like the <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">terrier
or whippet he wasn’t.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Wasn’t
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">the
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">two
hearts that beat<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">together
like captive confidants,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">he
forgetting, especially today,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">who
he was?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">in
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">the
moguled slope,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">rolling
as if wrapped in a hearth rug.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Didn’t
we land in a bowl of pearls,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">where
our feet couldn’t find bottom?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">And
above us, instead of clouds, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">giant
mitts of bath powder clapping together,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">each
handful,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">another
cup of sugar<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">for
a sweeter cake<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">I
could not see the top of.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">I
measured, packed and tossed,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">and
when one hard morsel <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">landed
between his teeth<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">like
a jewel in a setting,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">she
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">her
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“It’s
only a dream,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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snowing outside,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the first snow of the winter,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">wake
up,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">you
don’t want to miss it.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> <i> ~ Cynthia Gallaher</i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">##</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">The recession was still raging after two years of my pushing around a book cart [at Chicago's Marshall Field's department store], wearing a smock. There were no openings in the
store’s art gallery as I had hoped. My thoughts of becoming a gallery or museum
curator were quickly evaporating.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">One of the exciting aspects of working in the book
department was its regular public book signings, hosting such luminaries as novelist
Gore Vidal, hairstylist Vidal Sassoon, conductor Sir Georg Solti, thinker and
inventor Buckminster “Bucky” Fuller, baseball great Yogi Berra, former NYC
Mayor John Lindsay, actor Bob Hope, chef Julia Child and many others. All
arrived because they had just written a new book, be it fiction, a cookbook,
autobiography or philosophy, giving my then callow self a chance to meet and
interact with these successful writers from varied professions. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">In addition to customers, certain employees from
different departments would often gather around to purchase books and get them
signed by the visiting authors. Among the regulars was Mary Ann, the copy chief
from Marshall Field’s advertising department, who I also greeted and chatted up while she waited in line to get her books signed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">“Marshall Field’s has an advertising department?” I
later asked one of my coworkers. “Where do you think all the newspaper ads come
from?” one answered. “You mean all the ads in the Chicago Tribune and Sun-Times
come out of here?” I said. “Yeah, they don’t use an agency, the advertising
department is in-house,” she answered. A light went on for me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Before long, I found myself taking the escalators up
to the advertising department on the 9<sup>th</sup> floor, holding a small sheaf
of my poems. I asked the advertising department receptionist if I could see
Mary Ann. When she came up to small waiting area, I stood and explained how I
was interested in working in the advertising department as a copywriter if they
had an opening.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">“We don’t have any openings now,” Mary Ann said. “In
fact, we just hired a new person.” I suppose I looked a little downcast, but
mostly embarrassed. Was I out of my league here? “Do you have an advertising
degree?” she asked. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">“I don’t,” I said. “I have a degree, but it’s in art
history.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">“No degree in English?” she asked.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">That smarted. What did I think I was doing up here! “I
don’t have an English degree, but I’m a writer,” I said. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">“You’re a writer,” she asked, dubiously. “Do you have
a portfolio?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">“I have written these poems,” I said. “Maybe you can
read them.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">“Poems?!” she said, looking incredulous, but trying
not to be rude at the same time. She let me hand them off to her as I extended
the sheaf sheepishly her way.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">“I appreciate you coming up here, and I know you’ve
been working in the store for awhile, but I’m not sure poetry quite matches up
with what we’re trying to accomplish with our advertising copy,” she said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_dvzVfWO8u4gkNmgtmCjiOEmxxHMJQAerIy48G6JMvmAr4Y4v_faOdkp1fyh5wIS-01wrsTq7xjWO0qXA-ehf3glBdYWnGvwRpqmsrSRqEV2MN7_OMQXqwEJdchtVb54dMDNFbw/s1600/typewriter_534244189-450x250.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="250" data-original-width="450" height="176" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_dvzVfWO8u4gkNmgtmCjiOEmxxHMJQAerIy48G6JMvmAr4Y4v_faOdkp1fyh5wIS-01wrsTq7xjWO0qXA-ehf3glBdYWnGvwRpqmsrSRqEV2MN7_OMQXqwEJdchtVb54dMDNFbw/s320/typewriter_534244189-450x250.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">I thanked her for her time, took the escalators back
down to the book department and felt </span>totally humiliated from making a fool of
myself. I later avoided sitting anywhere near her if I saw her in the employee
lunchroom, as I was embarrassed by any of my earlier suppositions that I’d be at least qualified to work in advertising. If I saw her getting onto an
escalator, I waited until she was far enough away for me to get on, too,
without her seeing me. And when she visited the book department on occasion, I
gently tried to sashay the other way or find a reason to duck into the stock
room.</div>
<o:p></o:p><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">One day, someone told me I had a call waiting on our interdepartmental
phone. I walked over and picked up the receiver. It was Mary Ann. “Cynthia, can
you come up to the advertising department sometime today,” she said. “I’d like
to talk with you.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">“Sure,” I said. “I have a break in another half hour.
I’ll stop up.” I hung up and tried to catch my breath. What did she want to
tell me? I didn’t know what to expect.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">When I arrived up by the advertising reception desk,
Mary Ann again came out to greet me. “We have an opening in the copy
department,” she said. “Someone just left. She took a new job at an advertising
agency.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">“She <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">did</i>?” I
said, not knowing what else to say.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">“I read your poems,” she said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">“You <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">did</i>?” I
said, not ever feeling she would even glance at them after I had handed the
sheaf off to her several weeks before.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">“They’re actually quite good,” she said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">“They <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">are</i>?”
I said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">“I think you have potential,” she said. “And because
you already know the store so well after working here a couple of years, I’d
like to give you a chance if you’re still interested.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">A chance? Yes. As a copywriter? Yes. Yes, I was still
interested! I started a couple of weeks later, sitting at a desk and typewriter
in a room among 10 other copywriters, an all-women staff from whom I learned so
much, hung out with after work and formed friendships with. I wrote newspaper
ads about shoes, jewelry, cosmetics, purses, lingerie, even books. What a
thrill to see my copy in print in Chicago’s newspapers. Almost as exciting as
seeing my poems in print (but not quite!).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">The break I received at Marshall Field’s was the start
of my career as an advertising writer. This chance has continually fueled my
livelihood over the decades. It’s still hard for me to believe even today that
a small sheaf of poems, but mostly a generous woman willing to take a chance on
me, has made such a huge difference in my life. Thank you, Mary Ann! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">If there’s anything I have to share with others about
this experience is this: When breaks come, be there for them. When the desire
of your heart fires up, follow it. When opportunities and meetings of people
arise, follow through. As the songwriter Steve Winwood wrote, “While you see a
chance, take it!” Not everyone or even anyone will have the same experience I
did, but you will most definitely have your <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">own</i>
experiences, your <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">own</i> chances, your <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">own</i> opportunities. Be humble but upfront
in pursuing them. Make the most of them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">The excerpt above is from my reference, memoir and creativity guide <a href="https://store.bookbaby.com/book/Frugal-Poets-Guide-to-Life?fbclid=IwAR18S6c_LDYfflPmqHciBZmm88QEpzY5G8SmghwMm05PuBLr-dqDgGUnPXo" target="_blank">Frugal Poets' Guide to Life: How to Live a Poetic Life, Even If You Aren't a Poet</a>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Note: Looking back, I sometimes feel like my experience was similar to the character Peggy Olson on the Mad Men TV show, ie. someone drawn from the office pool to dive into advertising copywriting. Four years and two jobs after Marshall Field's, I finally did land a job in an actual advertising agency. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span></div>
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<!--EndFragment--><br />Cynthia Gallaherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04528052139106896290noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8655077.post-2452489416310335712019-02-04T07:39:00.004-06:002019-02-04T07:43:42.718-06:00Chinese New Year Poem<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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last year’s bad luck with a broom.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>~ Cynthia Gallaher</i>Cynthia Gallaherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04528052139106896290noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8655077.post-10579019887200068402018-06-21T08:19:00.000-05:002018-09-01T08:37:51.893-05:00How the poetry chapbook idea "Drenched" arrived a like a message in a bottle <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="text-align: center;">What is a poetry chapbook and how can a poet put one together? Simply put, a poetry chapbook is a shorter book of poetry, usually 40 or fewer pages, and is often saddle-stitched. It's a great first-effort for a poet, or a type of book to come out "between books." A full poetry collection is usually at least 52 pages and is perfect bound, ie. with a spine.</span><br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">Earlier this year, I gave the last poetry reading at Billy Corgan's </span><a href="http://www.madamezuzus.com/" style="text-align: center;" target="_blank">Madame Zuzu's Tea Shop</a><span style="text-align: center;"> in Highland Park, Illinois. As a theme, I decided to read a handful of poems I had written about tea, coffee, champagne, water, and other liquids and liquid experiences. </span><br />
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In the process of reeling in the poems I'd read that night, I discovered I had written quite a number of poems not only on potable liquids, but also on waterfalls, sewers, pools, saunas and floods. Even blood. Because I had gone into my computer back-up drive of poems and keyed in search words for various liquid concepts, I found poems I had nearly forgotten about. Before long, I realized I had enough "liquid" poems for a chapbook-length manuscript. It was little like walking onto shore and finding a bottle on the beach filled with poems.<br />
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Songwriter and Beatle John Lennon said, "Life is what happens while you are making other plans." This year, I have been busy working on a play, writing a manuscript for another poetry book, and listing other goals on a to-do list, anything but coming out with a chapbook of poems about liquids, which was the farthest thing from my mind.<br />
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On a whim, I sent the "liquid" manuscript out to a few poetry publishers using the title "Drenched." Before long, <a href="https://mainstreetragbookstore.com/" target="_blank">Main Street Rag Publishing Company</a> in Charlotte, North Carolina, contacted me with the news that they had accepted my manuscript <i>Drenched</i> for publication. Several years ago, I had a poem published in the <a href="https://mainstreetragbookstore.com/product/the-main-street-rag-fall-2009/" target="_blank">"Main Street Rag" magazine</a>, a literary periodical they regularly issue, in addition to their publishing of books and chapbooks. Not sure if that had helped me. Maybe.<br />
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I reached out to several friends and associates to read the manuscript and offer blurbs. Many thanks to Ana Castillo, Mike Puican, Jennifer Dotson, Charlie Rossiter and Raul Nino for writing such splendid words about the poems! Read their blurbs under <a href="https://mainstreetragbookstore.com/product/drenched-cynthia-gallaher/" target="_blank">"Comments."<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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Tima Fei & Julian Cumpian</td></tr>
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The 40-page perfectbound chapbook <i>Drenched </i>is now published. You can order only at the <a href="https://mainstreetragbookstore.com/product/drenched-cynthia-gallaher/" target="_blank">Main Street Rag page for <i>Drenched</i></a>.<br />
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Read a few poems from the chapbook online now under <a href="https://mainstreetragbookstore.com/product/drenched-cynthia-gallaher/" target="_blank">"Samples."</a><br />
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Thank you friends, family and readers for your support! Look for my upcoming full poetry collection to appear early 2019, <i>Epicurean Ecstasy: More Poems About Food, Drink, Herbs and Spices</i> (The Poetry Box, Portland).<br />
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<b>Note to my fellow poets:</b> Take a closer look at all the poems you've written, and perhaps type in key words in your computer to search the poems in your files for recurring themes, like I did. You may have a chapbook manuscript or even a full collection manuscript in your hands that you weren't even aware of.<br />
Cynthia Gallaherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04528052139106896290noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8655077.post-37524589345111094982017-08-17T21:57:00.000-05:002017-08-17T21:58:13.913-05:00Solar Eclipse August 21, 2017 Poem<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">moon pulls a room-darkening shade<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">across the sun, a small circle<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">to have a private conversation,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">a face-to-face performance appraisal<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">between this midsize star<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">and earth’s orbiter<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">after nearly a century.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">the moon first gives sun honor,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">praises its radiance,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">while the sun bathes the side <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">of the moon we can’t see<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">in invisible, noncommittal light. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">the moon, more assertive than usual,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">asks for higher recognition in the solar system,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">despite its pockmarked, dusty complexion,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">telling the sun it needs a promotion,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">after toiling and twirling <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">all these years for earth,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">never revealing its bad side,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">no matter how much it wanted to. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">showing off now as it casts cities</span></div>
and states one by one into shadow,<br />
however fleeting,<br />
hurrying on to make the next impression.<br />
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still seeing no response from the sun,<br />
the moon turns to the words of man,<br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">speaking the language of each country<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">it traced in its former eclipsical paths.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">reciting to the sun countless poems<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZgTS2_MKkCL55uQ7YYI5iZAMavK2HDfb5lsumlPgJPJekMineCkJvlc7bpGalUa1KW3z7ho-lB4mvI5d7lI9W8PFPaCzPGCKQp6YDGfreD-rbEZsFpOxJ6JuhYHi-FbdRM9Ls1w/s1600/Solar-Eclipse-2017.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="178" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZgTS2_MKkCL55uQ7YYI5iZAMavK2HDfb5lsumlPgJPJekMineCkJvlc7bpGalUa1KW3z7ho-lB4mvI5d7lI9W8PFPaCzPGCKQp6YDGfreD-rbEZsFpOxJ6JuhYHi-FbdRM9Ls1w/s320/Solar-Eclipse-2017.png" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">that poets have written<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">about its fullness and mystery,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">believing earthly rumors<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">woven on terra firma<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">might make good references. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">but by August 22,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">the eclipse comes to an end.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">the moon is disappointed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">but the sun smiles,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">opens its round yellow mouth<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">and tells the moon,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“I know it’s been <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">a long 99 years,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">spaceships have landed<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">on your surface in the interim,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">for the first time,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">earthlings have left <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">footprints across you,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">stuck flags in your face,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">alien colonies make<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">way stations<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">on your<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">dark side,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">nonetheless,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">you continue to reflect,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">to orbit, wax whole, wane crescent,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">play hide and seek,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">making the same loyal dance<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">every 28 nights, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">nonetheless, you want an evaluation?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">how about a question?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">can what I say or <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">any earthbound poem<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">still the twice-daily tides you create<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">that rock the world?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">~ Cynthia Gallaher<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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