Shauna Moser

Be joyful though you have considered all the facts. —Wendell Berry

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@readalittlepoem @Joseph_Fasano_ Natalie Merchant has a gorgeous version of this poem set to music.

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@_Zeets I teach community college English and hate AI with my whole heart. The steps of the reading comprehension, note-taking, and writing processes build and strengthen the mind. AI skips all of that. I preach integrity but it’s a hard sell when cheating is so easy.

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@Joseph_Fasano_ Reminds me of the Elvis Costello song “Veronica.”

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@Skentelbery As the children grow, photos of them sitting in the boat at the edge of a pond would be an additional treasure.

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@FeralHeather In her biography “For Small Creatures Such as We,” Sasha Sagan recalls a family story of her great-grandparents each pretending they weren’t hungry so the other could eat their meager food. The selflessness to put another’s needs above our own is one of the purest expressions.

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@Joseph_Fasano_ I always think the lyrics to Paul Simon’s “Kathy’s Song” are one of the most simple and pure expressions of gratitude for a loved one. “And as I watch the drops of rain/weave their weary paths and die/I know that I am like the rain/There but for the grace of you go I.”

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@michelle_byoung Well, thank you for the labor you are doing, because I’m following and using these names to encourage my community college students to discover and discuss. Truly appreciate you!

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@michelle_byoung I love this so much! This would be a great activity for students, too.

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@SeanBerube4 Reminds me very much of a scene in C.S. Lewis’ “The Great Divorce” of a mother who held onto her grief and desire to see her lost son to the extent that she couldn’t let it go, not even to enter paradise. As he and Tolkien were contemporaries, perhaps this poem was discussed.

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@sara_jayne67 @JournalistJill This was in 1998. To her credit, she shot back at the doctor, “I’m 56 years old, and I know how to wipe my butt. I want YOU to figure out what is wrong.” Sadly, all answers came too late.

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@sara_jayne67 @JournalistJill My mom went to the GP over a year with persistent bladder infections. They treated it as a “woman’s problem” and at one point instructed her (age 56) how to wipe from front to back. An unrelated fall and scan at the ER revealed advanced kidney cancer. She died 8 months after.

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@Joseph_Fasano_ Just beautiful. Thanks for reminding us we are never alone in the dark.

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@WonderKing82 Nauseated in rural NC

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@DanWuori “Baby laughter researcher” has to be the best job title of all time!