It’s pretty easy for me to get ensnared in outrage these days. But pragmatism suggests that it makes more sense to choose appropriate emotional responses, rather than react to every little (or big) thing. I’m returning to my morning ritual: starting the day with poetry rather than news.
For that, The Poetry Foundation provides an easy option: Their emailed daily newsletter delivers a poem. These poems can be contemporary or classic and they choose from a global list of poets. Today, they offered an emotionally rich poem from British author D.H. Lawrence. Lawrence holds a place in my heart because he wrote about sexual intimacy in a way that doesn’t feel salacious to me. (Lady Chatterly’s Lover).
I didn’t know that Lawrence had also written poetry, so this piece was a fine surprise, a messy moody evocation of unexpected emotion.
Susan Palmer's Exquisite Now 