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Together, we can end childhood hunger in America.

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10/25/2024

An onion recall related to a deadly E. coli outbreak centered around McDonald’s Quarter Pounder has prompted Taco Bell, KFC and more to remove raw onions from their menu offerings. Read more: https://nyti.ms/4fd1ZuI

10/25/2024

More than 80 American Nobel Prize winners in physics, chemistry, medicine and economics have signed an open letter endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris for president.

10/08/2024

Thanks to all who entered our giveaway! Here are the winners: .day.reads

09/27/2024

A few more days to enter the giveaway! We are celebrating the release of When Flowers sing by giving five copies away!

In a time when the world is tumultuous and technological advances are rapid, this book is intended to be a tangible source of pleasure and human connection. The 155-page bouquet of poems makes a lovely gift for any occasion, with words for any reader to savor.

How to enter:
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We will pick five winners at random on October 1st.
Winners will be notified via direct message.

flowers sing

09/23/2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOUwJs98XyQ

Matoma must be perfectly in touch with his emotions. Because, if he gets emotional by a performance, he's not afraid to show it. And we love that about him! ...

09/20/2024

We are celebrating the release of WHEN FLOWERS SING and giving away 5 copies!

In a time when the world is tumultuous and technological advances are rapid, this book is intended to be a tangible source of pleasure and human connection. The 155-page bouquet of poems makes a lovely gift for any occasion, with words for any reader to savor. Link in bio to learn more.

How to enter:
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3. Tag a friend in the comments that you would like to gift this book too
We will pick five winners at random on October 1st.
Winners will be notified via direct message.

These are the poets in the anthology that have Instagram accounts:




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cerny












poetry



l.writes







inspired.life





flowers sing

09/17/2024

It’s publication day for WHEN FLOWERS SING, and we’re doing a GIVEAWAY to celebrate!

In a time when the world is tumultuous and technological advances are rapid, this book is intended to be a tangible source of pleasure and human connection. The 155-page bouquet of poems makes a lovely gift for any occasion, with words for any reader to savor.

How to enter:
1. Like this post
2. Follow
3. Tag a friend in the comments that you would like to gift this book too.

We will pick a winner at random on October 1st. Winners will be notified via direct message.

09/15/2024

09/14/2024

The dead are not distant or absent. They are alongside us. When we lose someone to death, we lose their physical image and presence, they slip out of visible form into invisible presence. This alteration of form is the reason we cannot see the dead. But because we cannot see them does not mean that they are not there. Transfigured into eternal form, the dead cannot reverse the journey and even for one second re-enter their old form to linger with us a while. Though they cannot reappear, they continue to be near us and part of the healing of grief is the refinement of our hearts whereby we come to sense their loving nearness. When we ourselves enter the eternal world and come to see our lives on earth in full view, we may be surprised at the immense assistance and support with which our departed loved ones have accompanied every moment of our lives. In their new, transfigured presence their compassion, understanding and love take on a divine depth, enabling them to become secret angels guiding and sheltering the unfolding of our destiny.

JOHN O'DONOHUE

Excerpt from his books, Beauty: The Invisible Embrace (US) / Divine Beauty (Europe)
Ordering Info: https://johnodonohue.com/store

County Clare, Ireland
Photo: © Ann Cahill

09/14/2024

What birds plunge through is not the intimate space
in which you see all forms intensified.
(Out in the Open, you would be denied
your self, would disappear into that vastness.)

Space reaches from us and construes the world:
to know a tree, in its true element,
throw inner space around it, from that pure
abundance in you. Surround it with restraint.
It has no limits. Not till it is held
in your renouncing is it truly there.

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Rilke, Rainer Maria. The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke (p. 423). Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, trans. Stephen Mitchell.
Image by Lois P. Jones, Big Sur, California.

[Muzot, June 16, 1924]

Original German:

Durch den sich Vögel werfen, ist nicht der
vertraute Raum, der die Gestalt dir steigert.
(Im Freien, dorten, bist du dir verweigert und schwindest weiter ohne Wiederkehr.)

Raum greift aus uns und übersetzt die Dinge:
daß dir das Dasein eines Baums gelinge,
wirf Innenraum um ihn, aus jenem Raum,
der in dir west. Umgieb ihn mit Verhaltung.
Er grenzt sich nicht. Erst in der Eingestaltung
in dein Verzichten wird er wirklich Baum.

09/13/2024

It’s finally here! Please consider pre-ordering your copy today and supporting our women-led independent publishing company. Link in bio.

Pre-orders are essential to a book’s success and visibility because they increase the chances of making it onto various recommendation lists. They also let booksellers and libraries know this book belongs in their stacks. The book is available for pre-order on bookshop.org, amazon.com, barnesandnoble.com, and on our company website athousandflowers.org. Link in bio.

These are the poets in the anthology that have Instagram accounts:




black








cerny












poetry



l.writes







inspired.life

09/12/2024

Books are in the mail! WHEN FLOWERS SING: A Poetry Anthology is available for pre-order. Pub day is September 17th, 2024.

WHEN FLOWERS SING can be pre-ordered on amazon.com, bookshop.org, Barnes and noble.com and our website, athousandflowers.org

09/06/2024

The official release date for our poetry anthology is September 17th, 2024. Join us on a poetry odyssey into the primal—miraculous, mysterious land of flowers.  May you hear the flowers sing. They wait for us…

WHEN FLOWERS SING can be pre-ordered on amazon.com, bookshop.org, barnesandnoble.com, and our website, athousandflowers.org. Link in bio




black








cerny












poetry



l.writes







inspired.life

08/28/2024

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