🚴 Using a riding on a bicycle as an extended metaphor. 0:20
📖 Poem: "How I move forward?" 1:01
😇How do you move forward? And do you think about your spirituality? 2:52
🌎 I try to lessen my footprint on the earth. 3:11
🫂 Using poetry with sexual abuse victims. 5:12

📚 Bully: https://amzn.to/2F4vmnV
📚 In-Versing: Self Discovery and Healing: https://amzn.to/2F4IPMt
📚 https://amzn.to/3hlKZ7y

🌧️Rain is so wonderful, it extends green colors in nature. 0:18
🧘Just like yoga stretches, poetry stretches you inside towards unreachable places. 0:50
📖Reading: Poem about Yoga. 1:25
🤔Thinking about what we have hidden inside that's still giving you a trouble.2:55
😓Poetry cuts like a knife to find what is hurting inside. 3:24
✍️Write poems to heal yourself. 3:42
😊https://cynthiagustavson.com/books-music/
📗Book: https://cynthiagustavson.com/2020/08/15/between-tahlequah-and-tulsa/

🏡Working out in September and using onomatopoeia in writing. 0:19
🥁A story for children; "I Want to Play Drums" 1:41
👂Thinking about sounds in your world. 6:54
🧒Using poetry as therapy for children who've been bullied, but also for bullies:  
📗https://cynthiagustavson.com/2020/08/15/bully-the-big-book-about-bullies-and-the-bullied/

🏖️ Hope you have been to the beach this summer, haven't you? 00:15

☯️ Two kinds of people in the world, according to various dichotomies. 00:45

⌛ [poem: "Walking on Sand"] 01:41

🤔 Have we ever considered that we are the "top dogs"? 06:18

🙏 Visit Cynthia at http://cynthiagustavson.com  and find out more about her books at https://www.bloomingtwig.com/Authors/Cynthia-Gustavson.

🔠 Following is a new children's story, where many homonyms are used. 00:15

🎢 ["Merry Mary at the Fair and the Unfair Merry-Go-Round Fair - A Story in Homonyms"] 02:08

🎙️ "Being a poet, I love the sound of language." 05:47

🖥️ Visit Cynthia at http://cynthiagustavson.com  and look up Cynthia's books at https://www.bloomingtwig.com/Authors/Cynthia-Gustavson 06:35  

🌅 The most beautiful August ever! 00:15

👉 Introducing the poem. 00:35

💇‍♀️ [poem: "Split Ends"] 01:16

❓ Split ends as a metaphor and what it means. What are the remaining hairs? 02:24

3️⃣Three things that make up your braid, and what escaped the braids. 03:14

🙏 Visit Cynthia at http://cynthiagustavson.com  and find out more about her books at https://www.bloomingtwig.com/Authors/Cynthia-Gustavson. 04:06

🛖 We all have our own special connections to log cabins, don't we? 00:15

🍂 [poem: Knotty Pine and Cozy Dark] 01:39

🌱 Find your unwinding time and place, so you can find yourself, again. 04:45

🙏 Visit Cynthia at http://cynthiagustavson.com  and find out more about her books at https://www.bloomingtwig.com/Authors/Cynthia-Gustavson. 

🤔 Who am I? There are so many ways to answer this question. 00:32

👴 [Cynthia introduces and reads a poem about her grandfather, Mr. Knoblauch] 02:56

👶 Children are born with their temperament, their personality. 05:57

⤴️ We are often compared to certain family members. 06:24

👩‍🍼 On mothers' and babies' temperaments, and an experiment. 07:03

🧶 [Cynthia introduces and reads a poem titled "Four Generations of Women"] 11:39

👪 Think of something in your life and relate it to somebody who raised you. 14:31

🧬  How do genetics and environment relate to this week's question of how we are 15:19

📖 Two tomatoes-related poems from the book "Con-Versing with God". 00:15
🍅 Cynthia receives the "August Tomatoes" 00:57
🪖 Cynthia reads the second poem, "Tomatoes in Cages" 01:42
🌡️ Tomatoes as a metaphor and the weather in Oklahoma 02:45
🙏 Visit Cynthia at http://cynthiagustavson.com  and find out more about "Con-Versing with God: Poetry Workbook for Pastoral Counseling" at https://www.bloomingtwig.com/book/Con-Versing-with-God 03:25 

📚 Kent explains the origin of his publishing company name and its tagline 01:16
🪖 Soldiers getting used to reading through comic books and how that resonates with writing books that people want to read. 03:17
💝 All of the publishing is driven by money. Don't let that stop you from creating something beautiful. 05:33
👃 The sense of smell. 06:41
🖍️ Talking about the illustrations from "Bully! The Big Book About Bullies and the Bullied" from the previous episode of the podcast. 08:48
👊 Kent talks about bullying and Cynthia talks about how it was like for her as a parent. 11:05
🪕 Kent talks about his pets and biggest passion, music. 14:20
⛪ Composing music for the church. Simple chords, singable, playable, not made for performance. 16:57
📑 [Cynthia reads a poem from her most recent poetry book Between Tahlequah and Tulsa.] 20:24
💞 This weekend, write about your passions. 22:24