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Winter beach wisdom
6 Feb 2022

Winter beach wisdom

by Erin Coughlin Hollowell | posted in: The Journey, Treasures | 0

February. A grey white month. More light but still cold. The forecast is for two weeks of snow showers. A month that still belongs to winter though the light lingers later now, long slow sunrises and sunsets when the clouds … Continued

Jane Hirshfield, wisdom
A Handhold
23 Jan 2022

A Handhold

by Erin Coughlin Hollowell | posted in: The Journey, Treasures | 0

What handholds have you? When all around you there is difficulty – some of the season, some of the cycle, some of the seemingly endless pandemic, some of the suffering of others, some of the suffering of ourselves? I have … Continued

poetry, william stafford, writing
To dig heels into
16 Jan 2022

To dig heels into

by Erin Coughlin Hollowell | posted in: The Journey | 3

I am not ashamed to admit that I have a large personal library of poetry collections. Because poetry books have narrow spines making them hard to identify at a distance, I keep them in meticulous alphabetical order by poet’s last … Continued

eva saulitis, grief, poetry, writing
Isolation and Poetry
10 Jan 2022

Isolation and Poetry

by Erin Coughlin Hollowell | posted in: Uncategorized | 1

It has been by inch and trickle that the continued isolation and stress of COVID has covered the person I want to be. The person who has friends and laughs a lot and has time to walk on the beach. … Continued

being poetry, poetry
Turn
4 Apr 2021

Turn

by Erin Coughlin Hollowell | posted in: The Journey | 0

The spruce trees are filled with siskins whose bright voices patter and swoop. Such brilliant conversation from the world at this turn of the season, two weeks past solstice, Easter Sunday, Eostre. Even though there is still a bitter chill … Continued

christian wiman, poetry
Spindrift
7 Mar 2021

Spindrift

by Erin Coughlin Hollowell | posted in: The Journey | 5

May I admit to a great howling wind inside my mind, scouring and scouring? Every handhold, every rough surface polished like the glassiest ice. An unnavigable glare.  * To crouch down, narrow focus, examine this moment. The difference of inflection … Continued

Mary Oliver, mystery, Sherry Simpson
The big conversation that the world is having
20 Feb 2021

The big conversation that the world is having

by Erin Coughlin Hollowell | posted in: The Journey | 2

The big conversation that the world is having. Human voices are only the tiniest part of it. Zipper of crow flight against the white blank sky. Syllables of sea birds that float, read left to right, right to left, moment … Continued

attention, Jane Hirshfield, Sherry Simpson
Listening to the body
14 Feb 2021

Listening to the body

by Erin Coughlin Hollowell | posted in: The Journey | 1

The body is always talking to us.  This week, for me, included a recurring cricopharyngeal spasm – or in other words, a cramp in one of the muscles of my pharynx, typified in my case by the feeling of a … Continued

poetry, the body, writing
The persistence of grief
7 Feb 2021

The persistence of grief

by Erin Coughlin Hollowell | posted in: The Journey | 0

As a global community, a nation, and as individuals, we are navigating grief. For some, it’s the loss of a family member to COVID or their employment; for others it’s the loss of the vacation or dining at a restaurant. … Continued

elegy, grief, ode
Gift culture
31 Jan 2021

Gift culture

by Erin Coughlin Hollowell | posted in: Treasures | 0

Poetry is in the news these days. Not just the luminous performance of Amanda Gorman at the Biden Inauguration, but tweets that are snapshots of poems and articles that extol the benefits of pandemic poetry processing. Poems like whales in … Continued

amanda gorman, gift culture, rebecca elson

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