Margaret Simon hosts our Poetry Friday today at her blog, Reflections On The Teche! She's sharing beautiful "nestlings" written herself and her students. Thanks, Margaret!
I received more wonderful postcard messages this week and I will share them next time. Thanks ahead of time to Kimberly Hutmacher, Jone Rush MacCulloch, Michelle Kogan, and Diane Mayr.
Yet this week brought angst and (thank goodness) some relief. I am ready for new days with some good news. It's not easy trying to be positive. In other times of great turmoil, I find I cling to one thing, action as best I can help. I follow Tolkien's words he gave to Gandalf, who then gave them to Frodo: "I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo. “So do I,” said Gandalf, “and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
And thus I make those decisions. Best wishes to all of you, however you are managing these past weeks, months, of our lives, of our country's life.
Here is my response late on Wednesday, January 13th, to those who help and those who threaten our nation.
