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Each month I post an update called Rewrites on what I'm up to and content I would like to share with you. Most of the links on this post are informational, but a few are affiliate links to help maintain this website. Publications:
inching toward middle-age still a caterpillar
the rock the heron stands on motionless
chopping firewood the raised ax splits the moon only firelight... the shadow of a silkmoth flickering the morning after all the petals that couldn't hold on in the storm
in front of the fire cracking open a new book  Seattle from the Walla Walla ferry. Books I Finished in This Month: Blue Horses by Mary Oliver Come & Get It by Kiley Reid Tom Lake by Ann Patchett (audiobook) Toward Antarctica by Elizabeth Bradfield Attended:
 Lincoln Park, West Seattle Haiku: this world is a dewdrop world yes... but... Issa Poem: Song of Myself, 51 by Walt Whitman The past and present wilt—I have fill'd them, emptied them. And proceed to fill my next fold of the future. Listener up there! what have you to confide to me? Look in my face while I snuff the sidle of evening, (Talk honestly, no one else hears you, and I stay only a minute longer.) Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.) I concentrate toward them that are nigh, I wait on the door-slab. Who has done his day's work? who will soonest be through with his supper? Who wishes to walk with me? Will you speak before I am gone? will you prove already too late? Book Cover:  Toward Antarctica by Elizabeth Bradfield Writing Encouragement: People with anxiety are naturally creative individuals, but problems occur when that creativity is channeled in ways that aren't helpful. Instead of envisioning elaborate "worst case scenarios," write, draw, craft, take photographs, or any number of ways to divert that creative energy. Quote From a Writer: "Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart." - William Wordsworth
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Each month I post an update called Tuning In on what I'm up to and content I would like to share with you. Most of the links on this post are informational, but a few are affiliate links to help maintain this website. The Spring Equinox is on March 19th. The time to reemerge from the quiet introspection of winter and as Rumi says, "Shake off your thought wings, loosen your shoulders, and open." In spring the trees bud and flowers blossom, we can follow their lead and come into our own in the same way. Everyone has a place. If you spend your time imitating and comparing there will be no one to hold your place. When you are not your true self, it leaves a void no one else can fill. Even if you try, you will never be like anyone else, so you may as well be you. The world needs you to fill the you-shaped space.  Daffodils in West Seattle Upcoming Events:
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 Camellia Tree in West Seattle Somatic Transformation Book Club: Feeling & Knowing: Making Minds Conscious by Antonio Damasio "In recent decades, many philosophers and cognitive scientists have declared the problem of consciousness unsolvable, but Antonio Damasio is convinced that recent findings across multiple scientific disciplines have given us a way to understand consciousness and its significance for human life." Book Club: Tom Lake by Ann Patchett "In the spring of 2020, Lara’s three daughters return to the family's orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance years before at a theater company called Tom Lake. As Lara recalls the past, her daughters examine their own lives and relationship with their mother, and are forced to reconsider the world and everything they thought they knew." (I'm a proud member of the sloth reading club, so what I'm reading will not always change monthly) Vintage Art:  Encouragement: Learning to accept yourself as you are allows you to connect to others in an authentic way. Just another reason to do the hard work of self-love. Quote: "We a all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." - Oscar Wilde Each month I post an update called Rewrites on what I'm up to and content I would like to share with you. Most of the links on this post are informational, but a few are affiliate links to help maintain this website. Publications:
hunter's moon the spider spins a new home snowy owl looking forward looking back
coming into her own mayfly
crocus blossoms today is my new favorite day
the sidewalk poet trading words for food hungry moon  Kansas City Downtown Public Library Books I Finished in This Month: Dear Committee Members by Julie Schumacher Why Does Patriarchy Persist? by Carol Gilligan and Naomi Snider World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments by Aimee Nezhukumatiathil Attended:
 Kansas City, Missouri Haiku: a cicada shell it sang itself utterly away Bashō Poem: The Secret Sits by Robert Frost We dance round a ring and suppose, But the secret sits in the middle and knows. Book Cover:  World of Wonders by Aimee Nezhukumatathiil Writing Encouragement: Like a plant needs sun, soil, and water to grow, writing also needs the right conditions: time, space, and focus. Quote From a Writer: "You cannot be judging yourself as you write the first draft—you want to harness that unexpected energy, and you don’t want to limit the possibilities of exploration. You don’t know what you’re writing until it’s done." - Jane Smiley |
WelcomeI'm Kerry (She/Her/Hers) and I am a licensed therapist, group facilitator, poet, writer, & speaker. This is a place to acknowledge and validate our suffering and trauma, while also learning how to turn toward aliveness and spaciousness. 
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