Sarah Degner Riveros
@sarahdegner.bsky.social
Mother - Poet - Spanish Professor - Translator - Sewist - Minnesota, USA
Today's portal:
What are the gifts of darkness? What do you hope for in the first light? What is clear and what is opaque? What do you need to see printed in black & white? Where is the grey? How do these colors live together in your body and in your psyche?
What are the gifts of darkness? What do you hope for in the first light? What is clear and what is opaque? What do you need to see printed in black & white? Where is the grey? How do these colors live together in your body and in your psyche?
February 19, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Today's portal:
What are the gifts of darkness? What do you hope for in the first light? What is clear and what is opaque? What do you need to see printed in black & white? Where is the grey? How do these colors live together in your body and in your psyche?
What are the gifts of darkness? What do you hope for in the first light? What is clear and what is opaque? What do you need to see printed in black & white? Where is the grey? How do these colors live together in your body and in your psyche?
Today's portal:
Somewhere is everywhere - everywhere is somewhere. Where do you feel sorrow, hope, suffering, or joy in the world? Where do you feel these in your body? What is happening somewhere else that affects your well-being? What is your body doing here now that impacts someone somewhere?
Somewhere is everywhere - everywhere is somewhere. Where do you feel sorrow, hope, suffering, or joy in the world? Where do you feel these in your body? What is happening somewhere else that affects your well-being? What is your body doing here now that impacts someone somewhere?
February 12, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Today's portal:
Somewhere is everywhere - everywhere is somewhere. Where do you feel sorrow, hope, suffering, or joy in the world? Where do you feel these in your body? What is happening somewhere else that affects your well-being? What is your body doing here now that impacts someone somewhere?
Somewhere is everywhere - everywhere is somewhere. Where do you feel sorrow, hope, suffering, or joy in the world? Where do you feel these in your body? What is happening somewhere else that affects your well-being? What is your body doing here now that impacts someone somewhere?
Today’s portal:
Where do you feel fever or pain in your body? What images and emotions does the pain evoke? Who embodies a healing presence for you? What medicine brings comfort? Who keeps watch as you rest? How does your body express the ability to heal? Where do you feel healing happening?
Where do you feel fever or pain in your body? What images and emotions does the pain evoke? Who embodies a healing presence for you? What medicine brings comfort? Who keeps watch as you rest? How does your body express the ability to heal? Where do you feel healing happening?
January 24, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Today’s portal:
Where do you feel fever or pain in your body? What images and emotions does the pain evoke? Who embodies a healing presence for you? What medicine brings comfort? Who keeps watch as you rest? How does your body express the ability to heal? Where do you feel healing happening?
Where do you feel fever or pain in your body? What images and emotions does the pain evoke? Who embodies a healing presence for you? What medicine brings comfort? Who keeps watch as you rest? How does your body express the ability to heal? Where do you feel healing happening?
Thank you for sharing this. We will write our way through.
January 23, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Thank you for sharing this. We will write our way through.
During college I memorized sonnets and recited them while walking and running in the city. The rhythm of poetry and the bilateral stimulation of movement is healing to the brain.
I love this idea of using poetry as medicine, as a natural sleep aid to support and regulate breathing.
I love this idea of using poetry as medicine, as a natural sleep aid to support and regulate breathing.
January 23, 2025 at 12:43 PM
During college I memorized sonnets and recited them while walking and running in the city. The rhythm of poetry and the bilateral stimulation of movement is healing to the brain.
I love this idea of using poetry as medicine, as a natural sleep aid to support and regulate breathing.
I love this idea of using poetry as medicine, as a natural sleep aid to support and regulate breathing.
I moved from a literary desert to the abundant creative oasis of the Twin Cities. Here in St. Paul there are Little Free Libraries in front yards on nearly every block and bookstores and libraries in every neighborhood. Living in this literary city is a dream come true.
January 23, 2025 at 12:38 PM
I moved from a literary desert to the abundant creative oasis of the Twin Cities. Here in St. Paul there are Little Free Libraries in front yards on nearly every block and bookstores and libraries in every neighborhood. Living in this literary city is a dream come true.
Today’s portal:
What is the color of sorrow? Where in your body do you carry loss? Whose bodies populate the landscape of your memories of grief? What parts of grief have feeling and what parts are numb? How does your body express lament? When is grief embodied in your dreams?
What is the color of sorrow? Where in your body do you carry loss? Whose bodies populate the landscape of your memories of grief? What parts of grief have feeling and what parts are numb? How does your body express lament? When is grief embodied in your dreams?
January 23, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Today’s portal:
What is the color of sorrow? Where in your body do you carry loss? Whose bodies populate the landscape of your memories of grief? What parts of grief have feeling and what parts are numb? How does your body express lament? When is grief embodied in your dreams?
What is the color of sorrow? Where in your body do you carry loss? Whose bodies populate the landscape of your memories of grief? What parts of grief have feeling and what parts are numb? How does your body express lament? When is grief embodied in your dreams?
Today’s portal:
Write of a time you spoke truth to power. Where did you feel the truth welling up in your body? What part of your body held the power? What words did you speak? What did your body language say?
Write of a time you spoke truth to power. Where did you feel the truth welling up in your body? What part of your body held the power? What words did you speak? What did your body language say?
January 22, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Today’s portal:
Write of a time you spoke truth to power. Where did you feel the truth welling up in your body? What part of your body held the power? What words did you speak? What did your body language say?
Write of a time you spoke truth to power. Where did you feel the truth welling up in your body? What part of your body held the power? What words did you speak? What did your body language say?