The year has started well because of former Sonoma County Poet Laureate Terry Ehret's poetry brunch, where over three dozen people met to begin 2014 with aspirations that we put out into the world and to read and listen to poems. I read something newer that may not be in its final form, but it was good to try it on out-loud. And it was wonderful to hear such a fantastic range of poems from others.
There were themes of memory and darkness, life and death, beginnings and history and mystery and science. The northern lights. Carl Sagan's "little blue dot." Western New York in the winter, Sonoma County in the Autumn, San Francisco with the beat poets, skating a pond the midwest under bathed by the lights of the aurora borealis.
I've been reading Mary Oliver's Blue Pastures in the last month or two and have found so much inspiration and education in those pages, I feel it has changed my life.
Welcome, poetry read and written. Welcome, New Year.
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