Events & News (12/17/22)
Indulge!
The Saturday Spark
Tell us: How often do you read poetry and listen to music?
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This week’s Raft video replays
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Creatives’ Coffee (Zoom, Wednesday, 4:00-5:30PM Central). A casual conversation group for Rafters who like to “make stuff,” whether for fun or as a profession. Need companionship and support? Creative inspiration? Cross-fertilization of ideas? You’ll find oodles of all this and more at the Coffee.
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From beyond the Raft
My poet-friend Kimberly Blaeser has invited us (whether “poets” or not) to participate in the writing of a community poem sponsored by Poets for Science, Wick Poetry, and the American Geophysical Union. Learn more about this exciting project here!
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Whew! That's all for now. Stay well. Stay witty. Stay tuned into your true spot and create from your radiant, beautiful self.
Once a week? For Charles to say that, one would assume he did not even do it once a week?
You worked to hard Mr Darwin.
Once a day seems sparse.
I am happiest when I let music free me from my cares and worries.
We certainly are. I can understand not listening to music in that era, but poetry?