Bursts of Coming Home to Yourself
July 18, 2024
Readings and discussion on personal growth, self-knowledge, self-acceptance, and finding your true self.
Featured Quote: “Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself” – Miles Davis.
Featured Poem: “Love After Love” by Derek Walcott.
Readings and Links
Love After Love – Derek Walcott
http://www.phys.unm.edu/~tw/fas/yits/archive/walcott_loveafterlove.html
El Florida Room – Richard Blanco
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/56065/el-florida-room
The Light That Came to Lucille Clifton – Lucille Clifton
http://mondaypoems.blogspot.com/2013/06/the-light-that-came-to-lucille-clifton.html
Romanesque Arches – Tomas Tranströmer
https://intrinsicheart.com/romanesque-arches/
To Come Home to Yourself – John O’Donohue
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1316144-to-come-home-to-yourself-may-all-that-is-unforgiven