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Maria Bechtel-Fey's avatar

Thank you Annie 😘

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Annie Hendrix's avatar

Thanks for reading Maria! Good to hear from you.

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Sean Thomas McDonnell's avatar

❤️

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C. Lee McKenzie's avatar

Thank you for this. Beautifully written. With an economy of words, you've conveyed the perfect message.

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Leon Brown, Jr.'s avatar

Beautiful post, Annie - and a really beautiful poem!

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Jim Sanders's avatar

Would it be appropriate

To sit Shiva if not Jewish

Along with Lord Shiva

If not Hindu

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Pamela Leavey's avatar

It is so easy to get lost in this, isn't it...

"Listen to the words of others.

When they ask “How are you?”

get lost in this impossible question"

So relatable Annie.

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Jed Moffitt's avatar

"get lost in this impossible question,"

I love the way this poem turns toward suffering and does all the things we all do when misfortune strikes... But it sees them for the real depth inherent.

The poem takes a question like "How are you?" And rather than running from it or striking back or trivializing it, it treats it straight on, like a koan, like the dead serious question it really is.

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Mahdi Meshkatee's avatar

Annie,

this is incredibly heartfelt and wistful…

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petrichor's avatar

simple but healing. lovely all around

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Marjorie Pezzoli's avatar

I have learned there is power in my tears. Beautiful spot on poem 🎯❤️‍🩹✍️

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Mike Speriosu's avatar

This is gorgeous! What a wondrous and keen connection to humanity, executed flawlessly.

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