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SUMMARY:Help Write a Poetic Tribute to Small Acts of Kindness
DESCRIPTION:HELP WRITE A POETIC TRIBUTE TO SMALL ACTS OF KINDNESS \n\nArlington Poet Laureate Jean Flanagan has an idea: let's get the whole community contributing to a collaborative poem that celebrates the small acts of kindness that create moments of grace in our lives. Please email your very short account of an act of kindness you have observed to Jean at: jean.poetlaureatearlington@gmail.com. No more than 30 words\, captured in a sentence or two. Jean will go through the messages that come in and select as many as possible to assemble into a poem which will debut at the Arlington Heights Spring Fling Festival on June 10\, 2023.\n\nJean was inspired by a poem by Danusha Lameris composed in a similar way and a poetry prompt from a blog called "Two Sylvias' Weekly Muse\;" both are included below. "When I saw this prompt\, I was immediately moved by it and thought it would be a great idea for the Arlington Heights Festival\," Jean explained. "I'm hoping our community\, of all ages and levels of experience\, can get started soon by thinking about some of the lines from Lam ris's poem. Be inspired\; but draw on your own experience. And you don't have to be a poet\, just a truthful appreciator of the small acts of kindness everywhere around us."\n\nFestival organizers Janet O'Riordan and Cecily Miller invited Jean to join them as a collaborator to bring poetry to the Arlington Heights Spring Fling Festival. Jean proposed developing the collaborative Kindness Poem and organizing a showcase featuring local poets. The poem will be painted in a storefront window in Arlington Heights.\n\nEligibility: Anyone who goes to school or lives in Arlington can enter. All ages are welcome The lines should be sent to:\n\nJean.poetlaureatearlington@gmail.com by Thursday\, June 1\, 2023.\n\nSmall Kindnesses \n\n By Danusha Lam ris\n\nI've been thinking about the way\, when you walk\n\ndown a crowded aisle\, people pull in their legs\n\nto let you by. Or how strangers still say "bless you"\n\nwhen someone sneezes\, a leftover\n\nfrom the Bubonic plague. "Don't die\," we are saying.\n\nAnd sometimes\, when you spill lemons\n\nfrom your grocery bag\, someone else will help you\n\npick them up. Mostly\, we don't want to harm each other.\n\nWe want to be handed our cup of coffee hot\,\n\nand to say thank you to the person handing it. To smile\n\nat them and for them to smile back. For the waitress\n\nto call us honey when she sets down the bowl of clam chowder\,\n\nand for the driver in the red pick-up truck to let us pass.\n\nWe have so little of each other\, now. So far\n\nfrom tribe and fire. Only these brief moments of exchange.\n\nWhat if they are the true dwelling of the holy\, these\n\nfleeting temples we make together when we say\, "Here\,\n\nhave my seat\," "Go ahead you first\," "I like your hat."\n\n\n\n-- The New York Times (9/19/2019)\, Bonfire Opera\n\n \n\nGUIDELINES from Two Sylvias' Weekly Muse\, February 12\, 2023\n\nWhat small kindnesses do you appreciate?"\n\n"Inspired by Danusha Lam ris and this amazing project\, why not try composing a poem this week that centers around the theme of small kindnesses? Are there friendly gestures by strangers that have particularly struck you recently? Has a family member or friend warmed your heart with a simple act? Did you drop an avocado in the produce section of the grocery store\, and someone rushed over to retrieve it for you? Did your cousin leave a piping-hot loaf of homemade zucchini bread at your door? "
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:HELP WRITE A POETIC TRIBUTE TO SMALL ACTS OF KINDNESS
\nArlington Poet Laureate Jean Flanagan has an idea: let&rsquo\;s get the whole community contributing to a collaborative poem that celebrates the small acts of kindness that create moments of grace in our lives. \; Please email your very short account of an act of kindness you have observed to Jean at: jean.poetlaureatearlington@gmail.com. \; No more than 30 words\, captured in a sentence or two. \; Jean will go through the messages that come in and select as many as possible to assemble into a poem which will debut at the Arlington Heights Spring Fling Festival on June 10\, 2023.
\nJean was inspired by a poem by Danusha Lameris composed in a similar way and a poetry prompt from a blog called &ldquo\;Two Sylvias&rsquo\; Weekly Muse\;&rdquo\; both are included below. \; &ldquo\;When I saw this prompt\, I was immediately moved by it and thought it would be a great idea for the Arlington Heights Festival\,&rdquo\; Jean explained. &ldquo\;I&rsquo\;m hoping our community\, of all ages and levels of experience\, can get started soon by thinking about some of the lines from Lamé\;ris&rsquo\;s poem. \; Be inspired\; but draw on your own experience. And you don&rsquo\;t have to be a poet\, just a truthful appreciator of the small acts of kindness everywhere around us.&rdquo\;
\nFestival organizers Janet O&rsquo\;Riordan and Cecily Miller invited Jean to join them as a collaborator to bring poetry to the Arlington Heights Spring Fling Festival. \; Jean proposed developing the collaborative Kindness Poem and organizing a showcase featuring local poets. \; The poem will be \; \; painted in a storefront window in Arlington Heights.
\nEligibility: \; Anyone who goes to school or lives in Arlington can enter. \; All ages are welcome \; \; The lines should be sent to:
\nJean.poetlaureatearlington@gmail.com by Thursday\, June 1\, 2023.
\nSmall Kindnesses \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \;
\n \;By Danusha Lamé\;ris
\nI&rsquo\;ve been thinking about the way\, when you walk
\ndown a crowded aisle\, people pull in their legs
\nto let you by. Or how strangers still say &ldquo\;bless you&rdquo\;
\nwhen someone sneezes\, a leftover
\nfrom the Bubonic plague. &ldquo\;Don&rsquo\;t die\,&rdquo\; we are saying.
\nAnd sometimes\, when you spill lemons
\nfrom your grocery bag\, someone else will help you
\npick them up. Mostly\, we don&rsquo\;t want to harm each other.
\nWe want to be handed our cup of coffee hot\,
\nand to say thank you to the person handing it. To smile
\nat them and for them to smile back. For the waitress
\nto call us honey when she sets down the bowl of clam chowder\,
\nand for the driver in the red pick-up truck to let us pass.
\nWe have so little of each other\, now. So far
\nfrom tribe and fire. Only these brief moments of exchange.
\nWhat if they are the true dwelling of the holy\, these
\nfleeting temples we make together when we say\, &ldquo\;Here\,
\nhave my seat\,&rdquo\; &ldquo\;Go ahead&mdash\;you first\,&rdquo\; &ldquo\;I like your hat.&rdquo\;
\n
\n-- \;The New York Times \;(9/19/2019)\, Bonfire Opera
\n \;
\nGUIDELINES &ndash\; from Two Sylvias&rsquo\; Weekly Muse\, February 12\, 2023
\nWhat small kindnesses do you appreciate?&rdquo\;
\n&ldquo\;Inspired by Danusha Lamé\;ris and this amazing project\, why not try composing a poem this week that centers around the theme of small kindnesses? Are there friendly gestures by strangers that have particularly struck you recently? Has a family member or friend warmed your heart with a simple act? Did you drop an avocado in the produce section of the grocery store\, and someone rushed over to retrieve it for you? Did your cousin leave a piping-hot loaf of homemade zucchini bread at your door? &ldquo\;
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