Pausing for kindness to find us . . .

It's Tew's Day …

Poet and author Naomi Shihab Nye is celebrating her 72nd birthday today. She was born in 1952 in Saint Louis, Missouri

“Poetry calls us to pause. There is so much we overlook, while the abundance around us continues to shimmer, on its own.” – Naomi Shihab Nye

James Taylor turns 76 today. The singer/songwriter was born today in1948, Boston, Massachusetts

Liza Minnelli is 78 today. (born March 12, 1946, Hollywood, California

And, Jack Kerouac was born 102 years ago on this date in 1922, Lowell, Massachusetts

Research is indicating the presence, perhaps, of the most debilitating and global disease ...

Kindness

Before you know what kindness really is
you must lose things,
feel the future dissolve in a moment
like salt in a weakened broth...

Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside,
you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing...

Before you learn the tender gravity of kindness
you must travel where the Indian in a white poncho
lies dead by the side of the road.
You must see how this could be you ….

– Naomi Shihab Nye, from Words Under the Words: Selected Poems. The Eighth Mountain Press; First Edition (October 1, 1994).