🗳️ 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/

🏥 00:15 Both Cynthia's mother and sister are breast cancer survivors. She wrote a poem about that.

📕 01:06 The poem can be found in the book "Re-Versing Your Pain"

👩‍⚕️ 01:27 Poem: "Double Helix Twisting"

👙 07:56 Remember to check yourself regularly!

🌱 08:15 Visit Cynthia at http://cynthiagustavson.com and find out more about her books, at https://www.bloomingtwig.com/Authors/Cynthia-Gustavson.

🍁 00:15 It's a privilege to live out at the lake house. It is so quiet and the fall is beautiful.

⛰️ 00:38 Cynthia talks about what inspired her book, "Between Tahlequah and Tulsa."

🧅 01:14 Poem: "Number Two"

🙃 03:10 Do you think that you are approaching things from upside down?

🎯 03:39 Are you direct when you want something?

👁️ 04:01 What are you hungry for?

🤗 04:25 Think about the time when what you had was enough in your life.

📚 05:10 Watch for Cynthia's new book and, in the meantime, visit her at http://cynthiagustavson.com and find out more about her other books, at https://www.bloomingtwig.com/Authors/Cynthia-Gustavson.

🥶 00:15 Cynthia muses about how it finally got cold in Oklahoma.

🧭 00:51 Today's poem is a new one, exploring the symbolism of the sides of the world using the "grid".

🌐 01:38 The "grid" exists everywhere - you always know the sides of the world.

️🎙️ 02:00 Poem: "The Grid"

🧩 03:10 This week's question: how do you see the entire world through the grid of your first home?

‍ 🏫 04:17 "...as we get older, the only way that we learn something new..."

❔ 05:10 Is that working for you?

📲 06:02 Visit Cynthia at

http://cynthiagustavson.com and find out more about her book, Bully! The Big Book About Bullies and the Bullied, at https://www.bloomingtwig.com/Authors/Cynthia-Gustavson.

😇 What makes us change from day to day? 0:57
😮 The whole concept of change is about nurture. 1:44
🎙️ Cynthia reads a poem 2:43
🪕 Music has always been a big part of Cynthia's life. 6:02
🎶 Music her Dad played opened a door to a whole another world to Cynthia. 7:18
🤔 What heritage did you own that made you different from other people? 9:41
🤔 Who or what shaped you as a teenager? 11:10
🌳 Each decade brings fresh changes—positive and negative. 12:53
🦄 'I used to be, but now I am' exercise. 16:00
🌷 'I used to be a flower but now I'm a broken stem.' 17:15
💟 I am now, but I will be. 19:03
https://cynthiagustavson.com/books-music/

🧩 Poetry is a puzzle, and I make up my rules. 01:14
📖 A poem from the book "Conversing with God, poetry for pastoral counseling and spiritual direction." 2:05
🐦 About the poem Catbird 1609 C 2:24
😊 Cynthia reads a poem. 3:54
🤓 Birds are so programmed. 5:40
🌱 Exercise: What is growing on my soil? 7:20
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Are our siblings growing in the same soil as we are? 10:04
🤩 Exercise: using your name as an acrostic poem to describe yourself. 14:29