Happy Mother’s Day!

Today, we have created a blog celebrating Mother’s Day…using a poem!  This is one of my all-time favorite poems, by Billy Collins, that brings a tear to my eye whenever I read it.  In a touching and humorous poem, Collins identifies something many children have...

Elephant in the Dark

This is a classic poem by Rumi that applies to our experiences of the COVID-19 epidemic. The poem uses analogy to compare the attitude of people who insist that “I am right, and you are wrong,” with people feeling different parts of a whole elephant.  Each person...

April is National Poetry Month!

Since this month is National Poetry Month, we thought it would be fun to share an inspirational poem.  This is a classic poem by Emily Dickinson describing hope, and we believe it speaks to many of us during these crazy times.  Dickinson describes hope as “a thing...