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Throw Yourself Like Seed

January 11, 2012 by April

Throw Yourself Like Seed Shake off this sadness, and recover your spirit sluggish you will never see the wheel of fate that brushes your heel as it turns going by, the one who wants to live is the one in whom life is abundant. Now you are … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: Inspiration Tagged With: Miguel De Unamuno, poetry, Robert Bly

You Are Being Carried on Great Winds across the Sky

January 11, 2012 by April

Sometimes I Go About Pitying Myself Sometimes I go about pitying myself, and all the time I am being carried on great winds across the sky. Chippewa music adapted from a translation by Frances Densmore … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: Inspiration Tagged With: poetry

You Can Trust Even Your Extravagant Desires

January 11, 2012 by April

You can trust your wants; even when their gratification seems farthest off, the uneasiness they occasion is still the best guide of your life, and will lead you to issues entirely beyond your present powers of reckoning. From a speech called Reflex … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: Inspiration

Give clear signals

January 11, 2012 by April

A Ritual To Read To Each Other If you don't know the kind of person I am and I don't know the kind of person you are a pattern that others made may prevail in the world and following the wrong god home we may miss our star. For there is many … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: Inspiration Tagged With: poem, William Stafford

There are many good people doing many good things. You are safe. You are loved. You are not alone.

January 11, 2012 by April

The Soweto Gospel Choir singing Pride by U2 Lyrics One man come in the name of love One man come and go One come he to justify One man to overthrow In the name of love What more in the name of love In the name of love What more in the name of … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: Inspiration Tagged With: lyrics, music, video

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April Foiles is a writer, educator, and performing artist living in Baltimore, Maryland. Read more...

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