Jeanne Poland's Poetry Blog
27 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in Evolve...(version 2), Poetry Tags: awakening, civilian world, culture, danger, despair, discernment, ecology, Evolve...(version 2), faith Ginger, grief, growing trust, Guilt, higher power, hostility, march, MEDITATE, Music, Odysseus, one day at a time, patience, peace, relationships, retiring from the military, sleep and reboot, trauma, universe, vulnerability, years to change habits
My sister, Ginger, a psychologist shared in this piece by editing it from her personal experience counseling veterans.
I have rewritten it and want to share it with you today. She also recommended the book at the bottom. I have ordered it myself from Amazon.
If you want to share your reaction to the book or post , feel free to share on this blog.
15 Aug 2020 Leave a comment
in Poetry, The Quicksilver Chronicle Tags: commands, culture, despair, discernment, ecology, embrace your higher power, evolve, go through trauma, gradual awakening, immediate gratification, let go of grief, open to energy, patience, primary skill, reboot while you sleep, relationships, retiring from the military, surround yourself with music, the God of Faith, the peace of the Universe, The Quicksilver Chronicle, trauma lives in the memory, trust like a child, vulnerability
20 Oct 2015 Leave a comment
in Thin Tags: 200 pounds, beauty standards, being cherished, big, cherish ourselves, comfortably, culture, Geneen Roth, selfie, size is relative, Thin, women in Samoa
Selfie 10/2015
Think of the women who live in Samoa. Legend has it that a woman there is not considered attractive unless she weighs more than 200 pounds. Size is relative: Samoans might equate being fat with being cherished, and being thin with being miserable. (Forget about booking a one-way trip to Samoa. It’s too expensive.) The truth is that beauty standards vary from culture to culture, but no matter where you live or how big your body is, some things remain the same. We still have to find a way to live comfortably inside our bodies and make friends with and cherish ourselves.
Geneen Roth
07 Jun 2014 Leave a comment
in Family Tags: chant, commercial, culture, Easy Peasy, Easy Peasy Lemon Squeezy, Easy-peasy NOT, Google, hiding, illustrators, Mark Twain, memorization, rhyme, synonyms, TMI, urban dictionary, writers
Who’s hiding behind Annika?
Who’s hiding behind Oliver?
I’m naming my new Blurb book: “Easy Peasy”. Its theme is electronic creating.
This is never “easy peasy”, but I’ve adopted the title because my 3 year old grandson
loves the rhyme of the phrase and the recitation has made tasks easier for him.
Even though Mark Twain used the phrase way before Google gave us references for the phrase,
the following definitions appear under the urban dictionary:
EasyPeasy Synonyms:
simple easy straightforward bob’s yer uncle cinch it’s a snap loose no sweat simple pimple uncomplicated batter bakin easy peacy easy-peacy easypeasy easy-peasy liverpool not difficult peasypeacy scousers shouldn’t be a problem
Easy Peasy
It comes from a 1970’s british TV commercial for Lemon Squeezy detergent. They were with a little girl who points out dirty greasy dishes to an adult (mom or relative) and then this adult produces Lemon Squeezy and they clean the dishes quickly. At the end of the commercial the girl says “Easy Peasy Lemon Squeezy”.
Today it is a silly way to state something was or will be very easy.
I will be in an out, easy peasy.
Can you open this jar of pickles? Sure thing easy peasy.
(from the Urban Dictionary
derivation of easy peasy)
Years ago we had the advantage of looking in a dictionary which was written locally in our own language and was culturally friendly.Today we search world-wide and need to decipher which links apply to us.The internet is overwhelming.It teaches us too much. We’re dizzy scanning the info to focus only on specifics needed. There’s little space to retain anything after sifting through the icons, codes, navigation blips, history, and general TMI! Scrolling skills are imperative. “Looking behind” the means to survive. As Oliver reminded me, rhyme stabilizes. Chant relaxes. Memorization frees me to create.
Andiammo! my fellow writers and illustrators!
The Vibrant Channeled Creator 