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Commentary Awe

Finding Awe
Have you ever experienced a black, maybe you just need to find something that creates awe in your life. Today we talk about how to find awe in the world around us. My wife gave me a box of cards for the holidays in 2022. I was puzzled because they were creativity cards and I thought, what the heck is this, I don't need them. Well, folks, I was wrong and I will attempt to do a card a week and record an episode about how I am utilizing the card I draw every week if you decide to pick up a deck and do these let me know.
Links on Awe
Kickstart Creativity
 
Awe Definitions
Awe: an emotion variously combining dread, veneration, and wonder that is inspired by authority or by the sacred or sublime, to inspire or fill with awe.
Awesome Challenge
Recall a moment you were awestruck, pair that moment with a red action card.
Begin keeping a list of moments in which you are struck by the vastness and wondrousness of our world.
Make a plan now to seek out awe; don't just wait for awe to find you. Look at art, nature, and even technology. Where can you experience awe now?
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Interview with Emi Ferguson on Classical Music

Emi Ferguson's Bio
Emi Ferguson has brought her love of music and performing to audiences around the globe,sharing the stage as a flute player, singer, and composer with performers including Yo-Yo Ma,Paul Simon, James Taylor, and four U.S. Presidents. Emi loves to collaborate with composers tohelp shape the future of music in addition to looking back to the past, imagining what historicalcomposers might have wanted their music to sound like. Born in Japan and raised in Londonand Boston, Emi moved to New York City to study at The Juilliard School where she is now afaculty member
Links for Emi Ferguson
Emi's Website
Iconic Composers
Trope Publishing
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Commentary Attention

Being Attentive
Being attentive means fully being present and empathetic to the needs of others. How are you paying attention to your audiences? My wife gave me a box of cards for the holidays in 2022. I was puzzled because they were creativity cards and I thought, what the heck is this, I don't need them. Well, folks, I was wrong and I will attempt to do a card a week and record an episode about how I am utilizing the card I draw every week if you decide to pick up a deck and do these let me know.
Links on Attention
Kickstart Creativity
Tolstoy's "The Three Questions"
Jon Muth's "Three Questions"
Attention Definitions
Attention: the act or state of applying the mind to something, a condition of readiness for such attention involving especially a selective narrowing or focusing of consciousness and receptivity, sympathetic consideration of the needs and wants of others, a position assumed by a soldier with heels together, body erect, arms at the sides, and eyes to the front.
Attention Challenge
Reflect on Tolstoy's "The Three Questions" or Jon Muth's adaptation of the same title.
Consider the word inspire, which literally means "to breathe in". Reflect on how to use your breath as a tool for inspiration, and how taking mindful breaths can reorient your attention to the present moment.
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Commentary Wabi-Sabi

Practice Wabi-Sabi
Embracing imperfection is vital to your artistic practice, and embracing that is actually a philosophy called wabi-sabi. My wife gave me a box of cards for the holidays in 2022. I was puzzled because they were creativity cards and I thought, what the heck is this, I don't need them. Well, folks, I was wrong and I will attempt to do a card a week and record an episode about how I am utilizing the card I draw every week if you decide to pick up a deck and do these let me know.
Links on Wabi-Sabi
Kickstart Creativity
Japan Objects Article on Wabi-Sabi
Wabi-Sabi Definitions
Wabi-Sabi is centered on the acceptance of transience and imperfection.[2] The aesthetic is sometimes described as one of appreciating beauty that is "imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete" in nature.[3] It is prevalent in many forms of Japanese art.
Wabi-Sabi Challenge
As you design something consider how can you take your cues from nature.
How might you and your collaborators embrace wabi-sabi thus opening up space for imperfection?
Repair something broken. Perhaps you'll find you'll love it more than ever. Be inspired by kintsugi, a wabi-sabi practice of mending a cracked piece of pottery with gold, reminding us that damage can become a beautiful part of our history.
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Commentary Rest

Practice Rest
Taking time out to recover and finding time to rest is essential to avoid burnout. Give yourself the grace to rest. My wife gave me a box of cards for the holidays in 2022. I was puzzled because they were creativity cards and I thought, what the heck is this, I don't need them. Well, folks, I was wrong and I will attempt to do a card a week and record an episode about how I am utilizing the card I draw every week if you decide to pick up a deck and do these let me know.
Links on Rest
Kickstart Creativity
Artist Hub Article
Rest Definitions
Rest is a bodily state characterized by minimal functional and metabolic activities, freedom from activity or labor, a state of motionlessness or inactivity, peace of mind or spirit, a rhythmic silence in music, or something used for support.
Rest Challenge
Consider your beliefs about rest and work. What are they? Did you inherit them?
Design a rest ritual for yourself, your family, or your group.
Stop what you are doing and devote ten minutes to savor something. What did you choose to savor?
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Poetry Prompt April 30, 2023

History of National Poetry Writing Month
National Poetry Writing Month (also known as NaPoWriMo) is a creative writing project held annually in April in which participants attempt to write a poem each day for one month. NaPoWriMo coincides with National Poetry Month in the United States of America and Canada.
This website is owned and operated by Maureen Thorson, a poet living in Washington, DC. Inspired by NaNoWriMo, National Novel Writing Month), she started writing a poem a day for the month of April back in 2003, posting the poems on her blog. When other people started writing poems for April and posting them on their own blogs, Maureen linked to them. After a few years, so many people were doing NaPoWriMo that Maureen decided to launch an independent website for the project.
My History with National Poetry Writing Month
I started writing poetry in 1988 after I had been exposed to T.S. Elliot in my honors English class in high school. In 1992 I started reading my poetry publicly at Espresso Europia Coffee Shop in Abilene Tx while I was in the United States Air Force. While living in Rockford Illinois I published my first book of poetry Throwing Yourself at the Ground and Missing in 2007 followed by Postcards From Someone You Don't Know in 2008 Wisdom From the Sack in 2010 and Shaving Crop Circles In My Chest Hair in 2017. You can get copies of all of these books in my merch section. In 2020 I started publishing my podcast version of the challenge and those can be viewed here for 2020 and here for 2021.
What I am doing differently for Poetry Month
For 2023 I am not going to be just writing poems in April, I will be writing poems all year round. Also, since I will be writing all year round, I am using a different source for my prompts. There is a blog called Think Written and you can find it here. I will also be performing these works at Katora Coffee House here in Fredericksburg Virginia on their Friday Night Snaps Open Mic Poetry reading. Some of the podcast episodes you will hear will be a live recording of me reading the poem to a live audience, other times I will be reading it in the comfort of my home studio. I do plan on posting my work to the NaPoWriMo site and interacting with the poets there and see if they want to read their work on this podcast.
Todays Poetry Prompt
I’d like to challenge you to write a palinode – a poem in which you retract a view or sentiment expressed in an earlier poem. For example, you might pick a poem you drafted earlier in the month and write a poem that contradicts or troubles it. This could be an interesting way to start working on a series of related poems. Alternatively, you could play around with the idea of a palinode by writing a poem in which the speaker says something like “I take it back” or otherwise abandons a prior position within the single poem. 
At One Time 
30 April 2023 
You used to be important to me 
I even let you seep into my world 
Mine 
The world of words 
That I crafted for others 
And let you reside for one or two works 
I looked to you to provide guidance and called you Papa 
I wanted to be the ideal son 
I don’t know when I felt that I should 
And most normal families 
According to your third trophy wife 
Are set up that way 
And she said that because 
I told you not to come unannounced 
I gave you restrictions 
To protect my mental health 
To protect the family I cocreated 
I told you both not to send anything without checking 
And you could not abide 
You could not follow directions 
You could not honor my life 
So you were discarded 
I won’t speak your name in my house 
I won’t call you Papa 
Or father or friend or mentor 
Especially after the one call you did receive 
At a time when I knew you wouldn’t be home 
And I left the last message 
You would ever receive from me 
You were renamed sperm donor 
Which is what you were 
But you were so much more 
You were my tormentor 
You instilled the hatred of my body 
My mind 
My choices 
You instilled that I shouldn’t ever be satisfied with myself 
Which is not the same as never being satisfied with the status quo 
I have to lie to my children 
And beg their forgiveness later in life 
When they find out you didn’t die 
When I vaguely mentioned that you did 
No details 
Just death 
Because you are dead to me 
But you still live in me 
And the hatred I have felt of myself 
Reminds me of your hold 
Your influence 
But the victory comes 
When the day you will actually die 
And I won’t fear you showing up at my door 
Ad having to explain to my children who the person 
I won’t let in the house  
Standing on the porch 
Waiting to infect 
The poison 
The poison you injected into me 
They may ask who that person is 
And again I will lie to them 
It's just easier this way 
Then describing your sickness 
So I do thank you for one thing 
And that is being the photo negative 
I don’t ever want to be 
Other than that 
I’ll see you in hell 
And that is what you mean to me 
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Poetry Prompt April 29, 2023

History of National Poetry Writing Month
National Poetry Writing Month (also known as NaPoWriMo) is a creative writing project held annually in April in which participants attempt to write a poem each day for one month. NaPoWriMo coincides with National Poetry Month in the United States of America and Canada.
This website is owned and operated by Maureen Thorson, a poet living in Washington, DC. Inspired by NaNoWriMo, National Novel Writing Month), she started writing a poem a day for the month of April back in 2003, posting the poems on her blog. When other people started writing poems for April and posting them on their own blogs, Maureen linked to them. After a few years, so many people were doing NaPoWriMo that Maureen decided to launch an independent website for the project.
My History with National Poetry Writing Month
I started writing poetry in 1988 after I had been exposed to T.S. Elliot in my honors English class in high school. In 1992 I started reading my poetry publicly at Espresso Europia Coffee Shop in Abilene Tx while I was in the United States Air Force. While living in Rockford Illinois I published my first book of poetry Throwing Yourself at the Ground and Missing in 2007 followed by Postcards From Someone You Don't Know in 2008 Wisdom From the Sack in 2010 and Shaving Crop Circles In My Chest Hair in 2017. You can get copies of all of these books in my merch section. In 2020 I started publishing my podcast version of the challenge and those can be viewed here for 2020 and here for 2021.
What I am doing differently for Poetry Month
For 2023 I am not going to be just writing poems in April, I will be writing poems all year round. Also, since I will be writing all year round, I am using a different source for my prompts. There is a blog called Think Written and you can find it here. I will also be performing these works at Katora Coffee House here in Fredericksburg Virginia on their Friday Night Snaps Open Mic Poetry reading. Some of the podcast episodes you will hear will be a live recording of me reading the poem to a live audience, other times I will be reading it in the comfort of my home studio. I do plan on posting my work to the NaPoWriMo site and interacting with the poets there and see if they want to read their work on this podcast.
Todays Poetry Prompt
Now, write your own two-part poem that focuses on a food or type of meal. At some point in the poem, describe the food or meal as if it were a specific kind of person. Give the food/meal at least one line of spoken dialogue. 
 
Thanksgiving Dinner 
29 April 2023 
I never really thought about this meal when I was younger 
We always drove the hour that took forever 
No rest stops unless you call pissing in the corn fields a rest stop 
We always left before dawn 
And were lucky to return with our lives 
We would eat freshly slaughtered ham 
Nothing tasted sweeter 
The mashed potatoes not from a box 
Was chunky and gritty smashed rather than mashed 
With all the cousins in their bare house 
And each year a James Bond flick on the background 
The cigarettes overflowed in the ashtray 
The beers and wine were flowing, even for the kids 
I’d like to say I tasted my first beer there 
But then I’d be lying to you 
Just like all the lies of “yeah we are good to drive” 
Before the days of MADD and knowing better 
One day I stopped going 
Could have been because my folks found god 
He was hiding out in the churches 
That met when I was watching wrestling 
And we as a family turned away  
I didn’t really get that feeling again 
Yes, there was destructive activities 
That I can see from the safety of time 
“I didn’t let you die during those days 
Yes, there was the accident one year before the times of DUI’s 
Yes, there was the car on fire that you passed without a care 
But I didn’t let you die 
I kept you as safe as I could for something else” 
When I lived alone 
With the roommates and on the 33rd floor above the Lake  
The diner that I had frequented was open 
Taking in others like me 
Without friends or a family 
And on the TV, still black and white 
A game of hockey played quietly 
While the others were munching on turkey 
I became engrossed  
And that was when 
I decided the next year to hold a feast 
But unknown to me what the next year would bring 
I was alone in my apartment  
I had finally escaped the crowds 
Making a meal for two 
In a studio barely big enough for one 
In case there was a knock at the door 
There was none 
But the next year was different 
I had stepped out and allowed myself to feel 
To become attached to those who enlightened me 
On being a human 
On being open and vulnerable 
And that year I had a few friends over  
Who had nowhere else to go 
And we dined like kings 
“I am preparing you for a much better feast 
A feast that you can share with family and friends 
A family you created 
And friends who were true” 
And so, one year of cooking and clamoring 
There I was 
A Husband and father of three mentor to a nephew 
And friends who brought friends to feast 
We dined on duck 
And other delicacies 
We left a spot open for anyone who had nowhere to go 
And my children sat there and asked 
Why the empty spot 
And we said together 
“That spot is for me 
That spot represents the chair that I once sat at 
Alone in my studio 
That chair represents those who couldn’t make it to a home” 
With confused looks no more questions came 
And a small wish was born that day 
A wish that they wouldn’t have to carry that tradition forward 
A wish that one day I wouldn’t either 
A wish that the past could be forgiven 
And a wish for a better year ahead 
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Poetry Prompt April 28, 2023

History of National Poetry Writing Month
National Poetry Writing Month (also known as NaPoWriMo) is a creative writing project held annually in April in which participants attempt to write a poem each day for one month. NaPoWriMo coincides with National Poetry Month in the United States of America and Canada.
This website is owned and operated by Maureen Thorson, a poet living in Washington, DC. Inspired by NaNoWriMo, National Novel Writing Month), she started writing a poem a day for the month of April back in 2003, posting the poems on her blog. When other people started writing poems for April and posting them on their own blogs, Maureen linked to them. After a few years, so many people were doing NaPoWriMo that Maureen decided to launch an independent website for the project.
My History with National Poetry Writing Month
I started writing poetry in 1988 after I had been exposed to T.S. Elliot in my honors English class in high school. In 1992 I started reading my poetry publicly at Espresso Europia Coffee Shop in Abilene Tx while I was in the United States Air Force. While living in Rockford Illinois I published my first book of poetry Throwing Yourself at the Ground and Missing in 2007 followed by Postcards From Someone You Don't Know in 2008 Wisdom From the Sack in 2010 and Shaving Crop Circles In My Chest Hair in 2017. You can get copies of all of these books in my merch section. In 2020 I started publishing my podcast version of the challenge and those can be viewed here for 2020 and here for 2021.
What I am doing differently for Poetry Month
For 2023 I am not going to be just writing poems in April, I will be writing poems all year round. Also, since I will be writing all year round, I am using a different source for my prompts. There is a blog called Think Written and you can find it here. I will also be performing these works at Katora Coffee House here in Fredericksburg Virginia on their Friday Night Snaps Open Mic Poetry reading. Some of the podcast episodes you will hear will be a live recording of me reading the poem to a live audience, other times I will be reading it in the comfort of my home studio. I do plan on posting my work to the NaPoWriMo site and interacting with the poets there and see if they want to read their work on this podcast.
Todays Poetry Prompt
Today, I challenge you to write your own index poem. You could start with found language from an actual index, or you could invent an index 
(actual index used from It’s Not All In Your Head by Patricia Ferrell PHD) 
 
Indexing A Diagnosis 
28 April 2023 
Multiple Sclerosis (MS) 
Acceptance 43-46 but I was 48 when I finally got the diagnosis and even today, I don’t fully accept it, and for sure when I was 43-46 I sure as fuck didn’t so who was supposed to tell me to accept it when there was nothing to accept 
Anger 10-11 Let me tell you, I have been angry for more than those two years, I have been angry at this insidious condition for what feels a lifetime, and I don’t think at 10 or 11 I was that angry 
Anxiety 71-96 oh great I have that to look forward to, at least I’ll live to 96, but then how does this book know that, oh wait is it the level of anxiety on a 100-point scale, well that seems about right each and every day that ends with a Y 
Attitude 197-198 I don’t have one, I am just frustrated with people’s ignorance and bullshit, if you want attitude I’ll give you attitude 
Bike rides 196-197 Yes, I have a stationary one in my mancave, it's great for collecting dust, hanging clothes, for looking like I care for my body.  
Children 57-59 every prayer I say to a god I don’t believe in or recognize is that they don’t get this and if they do then what I will do to the gods that allowed this 
Cognitive Impairment 3-5, 64-66 are you talking about the time I was pouring beers for the sperm donors party when he wanted to be an elected official or are you talking about all the cigarette smoke I inhaled because it wasn’t the right time to quit or are you talking about how many times I have to reread a line to remember that I read that line.  
CNS Components 6-10 is that a new Canadian free streaming service, will they teach us Americans the correct way to make poutine or play hockey or to just be nice, no? How about a Canadian stereo system, no? Well, I know what a CNC lathe is, am I close?  
Coping Strategies 173-199 I thought I knew how to cope, but now I want this tattooed to my chest, written backwards so I can read it in the mirror and when I take off my shirt people can ask me what is carved there. Humor is a hell of a drug 
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Poetry Prompt April 27, 2023

History of National Poetry Writing Month
National Poetry Writing Month (also known as NaPoWriMo) is a creative writing project held annually in April in which participants attempt to write a poem each day for one month. NaPoWriMo coincides with National Poetry Month in the United States of America and Canada.
This website is owned and operated by Maureen Thorson, a poet living in Washington, DC. Inspired by NaNoWriMo, National Novel Writing Month), she started writing a poem a day for the month of April back in 2003, posting the poems on her blog. When other people started writing poems for April and posting them on their own blogs, Maureen linked to them. After a few years, so many people were doing NaPoWriMo that Maureen decided to launch an independent website for the project.
My History with National Poetry Writing Month
I started writing poetry in 1988 after I had been exposed to T.S. Elliot in my honors English class in high school. In 1992 I started reading my poetry publicly at Espresso Europia Coffee Shop in Abilene Tx while I was in the United States Air Force. While living in Rockford Illinois I published my first book of poetry Throwing Yourself at the Ground and Missing in 2007 followed by Postcards From Someone You Don't Know in 2008 Wisdom From the Sack in 2010 and Shaving Crop Circles In My Chest Hair in 2017. You can get copies of all of these books in my merch section. In 2020 I started publishing my podcast version of the challenge and those can be viewed here for 2020 and here for 2021.
What I am doing differently for Poetry Month
For 2023 I am not going to be just writing poems in April, I will be writing poems all year round. Also, since I will be writing all year round, I am using a different source for my prompts. There is a blog called Think Written and you can find it here. I will also be performing these works at Katora Coffee House here in Fredericksburg Virginia on their Friday Night Snaps Open Mic Poetry reading. Some of the podcast episodes you will hear will be a live recording of me reading the poem to a live audience, other times I will be reading it in the comfort of my home studio. I do plan on posting my work to the NaPoWriMo site and interacting with the poets there and see if they want to read their work on this podcast.
Todays Poetry Prompt
Today, begin by reading Bernadette Mayer’s poem “The Lobelias of Fear.” Now write your own poem titled “The ________ of ________,” where the first blank is a very particular kind of plant or animal, and the second blank is an abstract noun. The poem should contain at least one simile that plays on double meanings or otherwise doesn’t quite make “sense,” and describe things or beings from very different times or places as co-existing in the same space.  
The Vulture of Tolerance 
27 April 2023 
It doesn’t matter who we are 
Or where we came from 
Or what religion we subscribe to 
How much money we made 
How many people's lives we have positively impacted 
There is no difference in party allegiance 
Or Nationality 
Gender or sexual orientation 
If your socks match 
If you are wearing underwear or prefer to go commando 
If there is dirt under your fingernails 
Or callouses on your palms 
Or glitter nail polish that you let your children apply 
If you are obese 
Or suffer from a chronic disorder 
Or suffer from too much of the chronic 
Once your body is laid out in a field 
You all taste the same to them 
And no, you don’t taste like chicken 
You are their food 
And all that makes you, matters little to them 
Your dreams and aspirations are just seasoning 
They don’t care at all about anything you have done 
You are what's for dinner  
Dark meat, light meat  
Meat is meat 
And when you are as ugly as they are 
An easy meal is like going to the drive thru for them 
So, cheer up 
Be their happy meal 
And make sure not to carry plastic toys in your pockets 
Choking hazard ya know 
Wouldn't want to be the next meal 
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Poetry Prompt for April 26, 2023

History of National Poetry Writing Month
National Poetry Writing Month (also known as NaPoWriMo) is a creative writing project held annually in April in which participants attempt to write a poem each day for one month. NaPoWriMo coincides with National Poetry Month in the United States of America and Canada.
This website is owned and operated by Maureen Thorson, a poet living in Washington, DC. Inspired by NaNoWriMo, National Novel Writing Month), she started writing a poem a day for the month of April back in 2003, posting the poems on her blog. When other people started writing poems for April and posting them on their own blogs, Maureen linked to them. After a few years, so many people were doing NaPoWriMo that Maureen decided to launch an independent website for the project.
My History with National Poetry Writing Month
I started writing poetry in 1988 after I had been exposed to T.S. Elliot in my honors English class in high school. In 1992 I started reading my poetry publicly at Espresso Europia Coffee Shop in Abilene Tx while I was in the United States Air Force. While living in Rockford Illinois I published my first book of poetry Throwing Yourself at the Ground and Missing in 2007 followed by Postcards From Someone You Don't Know in 2008 Wisdom From the Sack in 2010 and Shaving Crop Circles In My Chest Hair in 2017. You can get copies of all of these books in my merch section. In 2020 I started publishing my podcast version of the challenge and those can be viewed here for 2020 and here for 2021.
What I am doing differently for Poetry Month
For 2023 I am not going to be just writing poems in April, I will be writing poems all year round. Also, since I will be writing all year round, I am using a different source for my prompts. There is a blog called Think Written and you can find it here. I will also be performing these works at Katora Coffee House here in Fredericksburg Virginia on their Friday Night Snaps Open Mic Poetry reading. Some of the podcast episodes you will hear will be a live recording of me reading the poem to a live audience, other times I will be reading it in the comfort of my home studio. I do plan on posting my work to the NaPoWriMo site and interacting with the poets there and see if they want to read their work on this podcast.
Todays Poetry Prompt
prompt for the day asks you to write a portrait poem that focuses on or plays with the meaning of the subject’s name. This could be a self-portrait, a portrait of a family member or close friend, or even a portrait of a famous or historical person.   
Defined By A Name 
26 April 2023 
How can I honor a god that doesn’t honor me back 
It's not that I don’t believe, simply I don’t believe as you do 
My idea is less personal and more expansive 
But stick with coloring in the lines 
It’s what you really want to do 
I wasn’t there being Paul's bunk mate 
It’s not my fault that he hijacked your religion 
That guy was a two fer part Jewish and part Greek 
So, I hope he can make a great falafel gyro 
Hold the pork 
You may think I am rich 
And I have some student loans to show you 
You may think I am masculine 
And my ex-boyfriends will tell you the same 
I like to shock people's perceptions 
That’s why I took on my nickname 
I am strong and nerdy 
I am so many contradictions 
An Anarchist in Libertarian clothes 
From blue-collar 80-hour work weeks to two flights of stairs commute 
Have fun unspooling my threads 
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