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Introducing a daily habit of poetry (or any craft / practice) can be exhausting when it comes to getting it situated and repeated on a regular basis. Years ago I found out – and was most recently reminded by a talk I heard – that marrying one routine practice to another can be the most…

For about 10 years I have used the moniker BRAWG in my posts and articles. For me it stands for 5 very powerful words that I have been wrestling with since I uncovered them in 1979 and ’80 in the words of a highly esteemed teacher and holy man – ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL. There is…

As we encounter and work with what we encounter we are ever checking one thing against another. We are testing for closeness, farness, similarity, difference, texture, shading, color, scent, feel, heft, opacity, etc., using our soulful-echolocation to “gage” (Old Saxon for “gauge”) the nature of the encounter, the thing encountered, and of course the encounterer.…