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my favorite lines from this article about poetry from students grades 3-6

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Tom Perkinson (American,b.1940)

Night Storm Over the Mesa, 2022

Watercolor and mixed media

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"Ring the bells that still can ring, Forget your perfect offering, There is a crack, a crack in everything, That's how the light gets in." - Leonard Cohen (Anthem)

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Lilacs in a Window by Mary Cassatt (1844 - 1926)

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copie by Sébastien Puissegur

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Maxfield Parrish (1870-1966), ''Scribner's Magazine'', Vol. 30, #2, 1901 "Through the night she calls to men, luring them down to their death." from "Phoebus on Halzaphron" by A.T. Quiller-Couch Source

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Ornament of Fish in Waves (Okimono).  Japan, circa 1900.  Bronze, silver, gilt, shibuichi and shakudo. 13.1 x 48.7 cm. An okimono of stylized bronze waves among which swim two shubunkin, one cast in richly patinated copper, the other in oxidized silver with partially gilt areas, the eyes of shibuichi, shakudo, and gilt. The fish naturalistically modelled, supported by the highly stylized waves.

Oshima Joun (1858-1940), given name Yasutaro, was the son of the cast-metal worker Oshima Takajiro, whose father Yasubei had started the family business. He succeeded to the business in 1877 and took the name Joun. He used the go Shokaken.  Text and image via Khalili Collection

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it's not overreacting, we all have different levels of sensitivity. if it hurts, it hurts. no explanation needed

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My childhood trauma didn't make me stronger. it made me a people pleaser. it made me forgive way too much. it made me not speak when i'm supposed to. it made me an extreme empath.

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Franz Kafka, from a letter to Felice Bauer, featured in "Letters to Felice,"

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Trust your body. When your intuition tells you something is off about a situation, a person, or a place—trust it and remove yourself immediately.

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“The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy.”

— Kalu Ndukwe Kalu

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-South and North Moat Mountains-

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Baroque Portal and Cypresses on a Mediterranean Shore by Ferdinand Keller (1898)