BEAUTY HUNTERS!
Happy Monday. The all-caps greeting is my gush of (attempted) enthusiasm on a chilly Monday here in the Pacific Northwest. But, of course, there’s no need to be in any other mood than the one you are currently experiencing. Here at BH, we welcome all moods, and turn toward beauty to build our capacity to be with All the Things!
We continue LET ME READ TO YOU / We’re all poets, as part of National Poetry Month. For today, let’s welcome:
Ada Limón, US Poet Laureate of 2023
The poem I’m reading is a short ferocious beauty called “How to Triumph Like a Girl.”
Sit back and let Ada L’s poem massage your senses. Close your eyes. Don’t even attempt to “understand” or “get” the poem. This is not a puzzle. Imagine the poet’s animal self speaking to your animal self.
And then, you can watch the following six-minute video of Ada L in real life: reading a poem and talking about receiving the phone call inviting her to be the next U.S. Poet Laureate.
Fun tidbit: Limon wanted to become a poet at 15 after reading Elizabeth Bishop’s fabulous poem, “One Art.” (The art of losing isn’t hard to master;/ so many things seem filled with the intent/to be lost that their loss is no disaster.”)
What a beautiful, gifted, generous human being. ENJOY!
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What are you doing this Thursday, at 12 pm PDT?
It’s pop-up salon time:
❤️🔥WHAT IS A “MARRIAGE”?
Thursday, April 13, 12 - 1 pm PDT
Register here, on Zoom.
Why do we partner up, and/or seek to marry? Why did you? Why didn’t you?
How might a partnership change if we defined “marriage” using the second dictionary definition? “a combination or mixture of two or more elements”?
This conversation is for all—the married, unmarried, in-between—anyone curious to talk about the In Real Life experience of being committed to another person and how it stacks up with out imaginings of what it would be.
I spent decades solo before marrying. For years I was more committed to my visions/expectations of My Marriage vs the One I Was Really Having.
WTF!
Maybe you have other ideas to throw in the pot. Please do! Let’s rip open this heart-shaped topic, shed a bit of blood (or not). Got carried away with metaphors.
Register here.
Free to BH subscribers.
PS. It’s cherry blossom season here — can’t get enough of these pom-poms.
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