Two poems from our life in Northern California bookend our love letters that reflected on the first.

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We run the gamut of emotions today, from our daughter's trips to the Emergency Department in Canada to our love letters looking forward to giving our first Marriage Encounter Weekend, to a poem about celebration.

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Wes and I dialogue on my first published poem; years later I was dazzled into a poem on the Perseid meteor shower during a visit to Oregon.

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I'm including the longest poem from my book, Stringing the Bow, in this podcast, along with love letters about our feelings when Wes came home from work.

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I open with another poem from my book, Stringing the Bow, read our love letters from our eighth wedding anniversary, and close with a poem for our daughter who celebrated her birthday yesterday.

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A lighthearted remembrance of stroller adventures, holding hands in church, and diving headlong into Daylight Savings Time.

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I open with a dark poem that ends in hope, rather like Holy Week that begins today for Christians. Our love letters talk about hope for the weekend, and I close with a poem about a statue of St. Francis of Assisi, appropriate to the Jubilee of St. Francis that Catholics celebrate this year.

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A band concert pulls up a tribute to the French horn in my new book, our love letters celebrate endearing qualities, and "Green Inebriation" reappears, revised, as spring inevitably will come.

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I read a poem written after a dinner we shared overlooking La Jolla Cove, our love letters about new demands on our time and attention after our move to California, and another poem reflecting on our fifth daughter.

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I read two poems from the pre-publication copy of my book, Stringing the Bow, and our love letters from my first attempt to deal with my depression.

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