Episode 39:The Gift of Presence with Poet & Educator Naomi Shihab Nye
The Growing Edge
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I Love the Pleasure of Writing Down More Than You Need
i don't want people to be distracted by too many presences in this poem. i love te the pleasure of erasing or striking what's extraneous, menum offen. Often in conversations, we can't do that. You know, and at a dinner party like am how has the conversation gone in this direction? Let's take it back to some clearer notes it was on earlier. I mean, i've been at dinner parties where whateveris being said right now is so much worse than simply the please pass the butter 15 minutes ago.
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