Author Archives: Susan L Daniels

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About Susan L Daniels

I am a firm believer that politics are personal, that faith is expressed through action, and that life is something that must be loved and lived authentically--or why bother with any of it?

vortices

Posted on May 15, 2014 by Susan L Daniels

I am spinning in the spin of unchained polar air, of the politics of a planet melting at the tips and freezing more in the middle and they call it spin, they call it science made opinion: one out of four … Continue reading →

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Not a Ruth and Naomi Story (a sonnet)

Posted on May 1, 2014 by Susan L Daniels

I never promised to go where you led With the blind belief of a burdened beast, My feet following any path you made. We are not a fated twining, our threads Spun and woven to oneness, west and east Meeting … Continue reading →

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For Stephanie

Posted on May 1, 2014 by Susan L Daniels

You loved children. You taught vacation bible school in the summers. You worked on the church nativity scenes, but what I want to know what I need to know is that, just once and maybe more than once you opened … Continue reading →

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The heretic

Posted on April 20, 2014 by Susan L Daniels

“Maiori forsan cum timore sententiam in me fertis quam ego accipiam (Perhaps you pronounce this sentence against me with greater fear than I receive it)” Can you bind a mind easy as you burn books or flesh, or is what’s real deeper … Continue reading →

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for GGM

Posted on April 17, 2014 by Susan L Daniels

who will bring me butterflies now in this time of spring peepers and crocuses before anything opens? I will watch for you and maybe see something very much like an angel but drunk and dirty whose prayer shakes a fist at … Continue reading →

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spring happens

Posted on April 13, 2014 by Susan L Daniels

Forget calendars Forget light, measured in axial slant or day length spring unfolds and is less calculation and more the yellow crocuses shout quietly under this kitchen window where I dreamed them expected but never exactly planned

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How to Lose Followers

Posted on April 6, 2014 by Susan L Daniels

Originally posted on Trent Lewin:
You start blogging to have a voice, to be heard and to listen to others.  It’s an outlet that doesn’t involve you having to go through agents, publishers, or other constructs of the industry.  It’s…

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