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Sunday Sonnet

Today’s poem is from the second edition of the Feminist classic, No More Masks! : An Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Women Poets, edited by Florence Howe. This is a updated version of the 1973 edition of No More Masks! but with many more poets featured; however, some of the fine feminist poets found in the 1973 declined to be included in the second edition.

I chose a poem that wasn’t in the first edition. This is by Alice Ruth Moore Dunbar-Nelson, who lived from 1875 to 1935 & who was married to the poet Paul Dunbar-Nelson. They were both prominent in the Harlem Renaissance.

References

Dunbar-Nelson, Alice Ruth Moore. “To Marie Curie”. No More Masks! : An Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Women Poets. Edited & with an Introduction by Florence Howe. NY: HarperPerennial, 1993. Poem is found on page 16.

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Saturday Caturday … a day late

I was out of town yesterday & away from my laptop, so I was unable to blog about Radar & Bobby. This morning, I was busy catching up on emails & blog posts that I missed yesterday, so I’m just getting to blogging about about my sweeties right now.

I don’t know where Bobby is hiding but Radar is curled up on his favorite box of the moment. As you can see, I still have quite a bit of unpacking to do! More like finding places for everything! But I’m in no hurry. I agree with the cats – it’s always a good time for a nap!

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Why People don’t Talk about their Trauma

I used to share what I was experiencing with my family & I was ostracized for many years. So now I don’t talk about it at all. The truth of this article really resonates with me!

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There are things that nobody talks about.

There are things that are absolutely taboo.

So when you experience these things yourself, you feel isolated. Completely alone. Judged. Ostracized. Abandoned in your pain.

And that is a terrible place to be.

Here’s how you feel when this happens to you

– You feel as if you’re tarnished even though you’re innocent. You feel like you’re an outcast, that you’ve been stigmatized.

– You feel extremely vulnerable. Your world has been exposed. There’s nothing that’s a secret. You’ve lost your privacy.

– You feel that you’ve been talked about, and you’ve been judged and blamed. Some people will attack you, and call you hurtful names.

– You feel that other people think you’re worth much less than them. You feel their eyes upon you, and their eyes are harsh and cold.

– You feel you must be silent for no-one wants to…

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Language-Learning Is a Type of Meditation

This is so true. Which is why I will never stop learning. Or meditating.

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This is me studying Elfdalian grammar at home in 2019.

Learning languages calms the mind. One has to empty one’s mind and immerse oneself completely in the work of learning any language. Language-learning is my favourite way of distracting myself. It helped me through the most difficult times of my life and it has helped me to find inner peace. Meditation is characterised by (a) emptying, (b) calming and (c) training the mind. Language-learning helps me achieve all three of these. My tireless attempts at successful language-learning have, over the course of many years, helped me overcome many learning problems, including attention problems and dyslexia. Language-learning has significantly improved my reading, spelling, logical reasoning, hearing, speaking, etc. Indeed, it has trained my eye for detail, I notice far more things than I used to, my mind is sharper than it ever was. The calmness of my…

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Sunday Sonnet

Still getting settled in my new home but I’m able to start back with some of my regular posts again. Here’s a poem by John Keats from The Penguin Book of the Sonnet.

references

Keats, John. “On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer”. The Penguin Book of the Sonnet: 500 Years of a Classic Tradition in English. Edited by Phyllis Levin. NY: Penguin Books, 2001. Poem found on page 109.

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Everything is connected …

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How summer 2021 has changed our understanding of extreme weather

A succession ofrecord-breaking natural disastershave swept the globe in recent weeks. There have been serious floods in China and western Europe, heatwaves and drought in North America and wildfires in the sub-Arctic.

An annualreporton the UK’s weather indicates extreme events are becoming commonplace in the country’s once mild climate. August 2020 saw temperatures hit 34°C on six consecutive days across southern England, including five sticky nights where the mercury stayed above 20°C. In the future, British summers are likely to see temperatures greater than 40°C regularly, even if global warming is limited to 1.5°C.

The Canadian national temperature record was shattered in June 2021 meanwhile, with 49.6°C recorded in Lytton, British Columbia – a town that was all but destroyed bywildfiresa few days later.

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Signs that You’re Starting to Heal from Trauma

It’s taken me fifty years to get here.

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Trauma changes us dramatically.

You can’t blot out the memories, and erase all the scars when you’ve experienced trauma, and it’s left its mark on you.

You come to terms with it. And you learn to live with it.

And there are times when we don’t recognize ourselves. The journey is so long, and so very hard.

Yet, we can make progress; and we can start to heal. Below is a list of encouraging signs that indicate you’re slowly starting to heal:

1. You’re more aware of your triggers, and you know that you’re better at managing them now. Although they cause distress, you don’t dread them quite as much.

2. You know that that your reactions are not life-threatening. They follow a set pattern; they’ve become predictable.

3. You know that these will ease and abate eventually. You just need to be patient, and feel the different feelings.

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