Love could not be kept forever in the third person, past tense. Mary Lavin Now, just what is the third person, past tense? I looked it up and found a few examples, just to be sure my English major memory was correct — He walked to the store. She...

If poetry and the arts do anything, they fortify your inner life, your inwardness. Seamus Heaney I embrace my inwardness. The parts of me that are soft and round and full. The parts of me that hold tightly and sweetly and kindly. The parts of me t...

Living In My Hands As someone who has studied wide-awakeness for a long time, I need to be reminded that wide-awakeness is about living in our hands. It is about getting out of our heads and into the world, the body, the dirt. It is about con...

MoLI. Poetry. Language It is National Poetry Month so my walks will take a literary turn. We will stroll through the Museum of Literature Ireland (MoLI). In August of 2024, I spent two weeks in Ireland. One day began at the MoLI. I have ...