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?

the weight of a soul

Posted on March 5, 2013 by Susan L Daniels

the weight of a soul is less than a serving of potato chips, our salt counted out and savored too quickly not so much a taste as a remembered one that handful leaving us wanting more, asking is that all … Continue reading →

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Posted on March 4, 2013 by Susan L Daniels

Powerful, Soraya.

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Red shawl dance

Posted on March 3, 2013 by Susan L Daniels

Stand up when they dance in jingle dresses for healing red shawls brush earth to remember blood bright as red ocher our sisters gave back hold hands and stand for women who laid down but got up again and the ones … Continue reading →

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in times of crows and ice, we dream spring

Posted on March 2, 2013 by Susan L Daniels

in this time of crows and snow I write of ice flowers mimicking daisies and you dream daffodils stir under snow, but earth keeps her own time despite our yearn towards a sunward tilt and longer days we crave that break into blossom; the … Continue reading →

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Little Girls: Veal

Posted on March 2, 2013 by Susan L Daniels

No sweeter meat was ever marketed, wrapped tight and packaged, shiny for delivery; use by dates coded in biological clocks ticking DNA chose your cut carefully because what is soft what breaks in us shifts to sinew, muscles with time and can choke … Continue reading →

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The marcher stumbles

Posted on March 2, 2013 by Susan L Daniels

How do you travel from that tie-dyed tent city of 1986, pegged and jogged across a continent for peace to now, your pulse threaded green on a heart monitor reassuring us you did not fall not yet. The answer is the walk … Continue reading →

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Posted on March 2, 2013 by Susan L Daniels

WOMEN (and men who love them)!!!! Let’s share our words.

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