Kathy ShimpockMar 5Poetry"Thinking Like a Butterfly" A poem by Mark Nipo."Monday I was told I was good. I felt relieved…” When I share poems with a class, I follow the Benedictine practice of Lectio Divina....
Kathy ShimpockMar 5Poetry"Hope is the Thing with Feathers" (a poem) - by Emily Dickinson“Hope” is the thing with feathers - That perches in the soul - And sings the tune without the words - And never stops - at all - And...
Kathy ShimpockMar 5Poetry"When a Woman Feels Alone" by May Sarton. An encounter with the wise old woman archetype.Jesse Wilson, a Nootka woman with baskets for sale (c. 1930s). When a woman feels alone, when the room is full of daemons,” the Nootka...
Kathy ShimpockMar 5Poetry"The Pond" - a poem by Mary OliverAugust of another summer, and once again I am drinking the sun and the lilies again are spread across the water. I know now what they...