🗳️ Elections are close and people find it harder to talk to one another. 0:43
🧐 Looking through different lenses showed me something different. 1:34
👂 'Sound principles' a poem from 'Please Use This for Children and Not for War and Guns' book. 2:46
🧠 What kind of lenses had people who made fun of smart girls? 5:06
🧨 Why are we so divided and have so different lenses to look at the world? 6:27
🕶️ All the lenses we need to get rid of. 7:55
📖 Poem 'Number Three' from a book 'Between Tahlequah and Tulsa' 9:16
⛩️ When you live in different places. you have to remove lenses to understand a different culture and people. 13:09
📝Poetry assignment: think about the lenses you wear and if those are stopping you understand people around you and vice versa. 13:53
🗣️ Try using awareness of lenses in and try to talk with someone that you couldn't talk to before.15:29

🏙️ 00:15 There is always somebody to help you in Tulsa.

🐦 01:06 Canada geese's community spirit is strong.

🪁 01:53 Poem: "Migration"

💞 04:15 The poem is based on a true story - wild geese sacrifice for the one who is not as strong.

♿ 04:55 Mr. Gustavson, who is in a wheelchair, is often helped by others, too.

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 05:36 "And that's what I wish for you, that you have a community."

⛑️ 05:59 "We need one another. We need to care for one another."

🧒 06:20 Visit Cynthia at http://cynthiagustavson.com and find out more about her book, Please Use This for Children and Not for War and Guns, at https://cynthiagustavson.com/2020/08/15/please-use-this-for-children-not-for-war-and-guns/

✝️ 00:15 There are funerals where nobody shows up and funerals where there are many friends and relatives.

⛪ 01:23 Not all the relatives could get to the funeral of Cynthia's Dad because the church was full.

🥀 01:54 "Loss has so many ramifications to it."

📖 01:58 Cynthia introduces a poem from her therapy book "In-Versing Your Life", which can also be found in her e-book, "I Don't Write Love Poems"

🌧️️02:25 Poem: "Loss"

🩹 04:07 We have to learn to live through the loss, it's inevitable.

🧶 04:54 Small losses help us deal with major losses.

🔗 05:37 Visit Cynthia and find out more about her books, at https://cynthiagustavson.com/books-music/