There are too many mornings when I wake up with a heaviness. Sometimes it’s the weight of the world. Sometimes it’s the accumulation of years, recognizing there is less time ahead of me than behind me. I have been an activist [...]
Pat Taub
Research findings reveal reading poetry lowers blood pressure, improves brain functioning and enhances well-being, signaling poetry as a valuable resource for managing our turbulent times. Poetry reminds us that beauty coexists along with the world’s dark forces. Poems offer companionship; when a poem speaks to us, we feel less alone; [...]
Pat Taub
For poems are not words after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, and sometimes as necessary as bread in the pockets of the hungry. —Mary Oliver To paraphrase Oliver, poetry isn’t just an art form, but a powerful medicine. Poems are a reminder when we are hurting that there is beauty in the world, and when we [...]
Pat Taub