🫒 🌰You like olives, I like nuts. 0:26 🥛 Your great-grandma, Dorothy did not like milk and cheese. 1:27 😬 The yogurt only looks like an icecream, but it is not tasty at all. 2:49 🎣 Why your uncle Kent don't eat fish. 04:35 🫐 I love wild berries because they are growing free. 7:10 🥦 You like vegetables, I don't like them much but wild asparagus.. 8:2…

🤸 Country kids and city kids. 0:05 ️🏕️ I loved to wander in nature. 1:27 ️🏙️ Papa loved to play in the park. 3:16 🐸 Tree frog in our pot. 4:49 🐻 The wild outdoors around us. 5:20By Cynthia Blomquist Gustavson

👋Bye-bye 2020. 0:05 💌 Letter a day. 0:54 4️⃣ Four things on my mind. 5:00 ‍ 👩‍🎓 Moving to Boston. 6:00 😇 I learned a lot and was a good student. 6:50 🌟 Challenges make us stronger. 8:25By Cynthia Blomquist Gustavson

🎄 Christmas decoration. 0:03 🕯️ Advent and Santa Lucia's Day. 0:27 🌞 We wait for a lot of things. 2:45 ❄️ What are you waiting for? 5:54 👵 In the waiting is when I lived my life. 7:46By Cynthia Blomquist Gustavson

☕ I love coffee and Starbucks. 0:25 🍰 Grammy, let's go to a Square box. 1:45 🦸‍♀️ Find your own superpowers. 3:12 ⭐ Ask for help when you need it. 5:48By Cynthia Blomquist Gustavson

🫐 Picking berries. 0:05 🎇 4th of July potluck 0:49 👀 Little White lie. 3:20 👀 Keep your eyes open to the world. 7:46By Cynthia Blomquist Gustavson

🗳️ Elections are close and people find it harder to talk to one another. 0:43 🧐 Looking through different lenses showed me something different. 1:34 👂 'Sound principles' a poem from 'Please Use This for Children and Not for War and Guns' book. 2:46 🧠 What kind of lenses had people who made fun of smart girls? 5:06 🧨 Why are we so divided and have s…

🏙️ 00:15 There is always somebody to help you in Tulsa. 🐦 01:06 Canada geese's community spirit is strong. 🪁 01:53 Poem: "Migration" 💞 04:15 The poem is based on a true story - wild geese sacrifice for the one who is not as strong. ♿ 04:55 Mr. Gustavson, who is in a wheelchair, is often helped by others, too. 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 05:36 "And that's what I wish f…

✝️ 00:15 There are funerals where nobody shows up and funerals where there are many friends and relatives. ⛪ 01:23 Not all the relatives could get to the funeral of Cynthia's Dad because the church was full. 🥀 01:54 "Loss has so many ramifications to it." 📖 01:58 Cynthia introduces a poem from her therapy book "In-Versing Your Life", which can also…

🏥 00:15 Both Cynthia's mother and sister are breast cancer survivors. She wrote a poem about that. 📕 01:06 The poem can be found in the book "Re-Versing Your Pain" 👩‍⚕️ 01:27 Poem: "Double Helix Twisting" 👙 07:56 Remember to check yourself regularly! 🌱 08:15 Visit Cynthia at http://cynthiagustavson.com and find out more about her books, at https://…

🍌 Making banana bread. 😋 Changing recipes. 🙌 Life is about change. Have fun with that.By Cynthia Blomquist Gustavson

🍁 00:15 It's a privilege to live out at the lake house. It is so quiet and the fall is beautiful. ⛰️ 00:38 Cynthia talks about what inspired her book, "Between Tahlequah and Tulsa." 🧅 01:14 Poem: "Number Two" 🙃 03:10 Do you think that you are approaching things from upside down? 🎯 03:39 Are you direct when you want something? 👁️ 04:01 What are you …

🥶 00:15 Cynthia muses about how it finally got cold in Oklahoma. 🧭 00:51 Today's poem is a new one, exploring the symbolism of the sides of the world using the "grid". 🌐 01:38 The "grid" exists everywhere - you always know the sides of the world. ️🎙️ 02:00 Poem: "The Grid" 🧩 03:10 This week's question: how do you see the entire world through the gr…

🚵‍♀️A bike ride 🪶 Canada geese. ☁️ Learning to fly. 💖Taking care of each other. 🌟The world is a beautiful place.By Cynthia Blomquist Gustavson

😇 What makes us change from day to day? 0:57 😮 The whole concept of change is about nurture. 1:44 🎙️ Cynthia reads a poem 2:43 🪕 Music has always been a big part of Cynthia's life. 6:02 🎶 Music her Dad played opened a door to a whole another world to Cynthia. 7:18 🤔 What heritage did you own that made you different from other people? 9:41 🤔 Who or …

🧩 Poetry is a puzzle, and I make up my rules. 01:14 📖 A poem from the book "Conversing with God, poetry for pastoral counseling and spiritual direction." 2:05 🐦 About the poem Catbird 1609 C 2:24 😊 Cynthia reads a poem. 3:54 🤓 Birds are so programmed. 5:40 🌱 Exercise: What is growing on my soil? 7:20 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Are our siblings growing in the same soi…

🥇Cynthia's first poem was published in a national publication in 1984. 0:14 😇Dialysis is a poem of hope. 0:59 🎙️Cyntia reads the poem Dialysis. 2:54 🍂Enjoy the colors of autumn. 3:48 https://cynthiagustavson.com/books-music/By Cynthia Blomquist Gustavson

📂 "Perfect and terrible" categories of body image you push yourself in. 0:17 📖 Cynthia reads her poem `Image` 1:11 ✌️ Thin is in but also is sexy. And being your own woman. 2:34 👀 Life seems easy for models on the TV. 3:41 🧚 Take care of yourself. 5:02 🔥 Body image: think health, don't think model. 6:09 💎 Workbook for Eating Disorders: https://amzn…

🚴 Using a riding on a bicycle as an extended metaphor. 0:20 📖 Poem: "How I move forward?" 1:01 😇How do you move forward? And do you think about your spirituality? 2:52 🌎 I try to lessen my footprint on the earth. 3:11 🫂 Using poetry with sexual abuse victims. 5:12 📚 Bully: https://amzn.to/2F4vmnV 📚 In-Versing: Self Discovery and Healing: https://am…

🌧️Rain is so wonderful, it extends green colors in nature. 0:18 🧘Just like yoga stretches, poetry stretches you inside towards unreachable places. 0:50 📖Reading: Poem about Yoga. 1:25 🤔Thinking about what we have hidden inside that's still giving you a trouble.2:55 😓Poetry cuts like a knife to find what is hurting inside. 3:24 ✍️Write poems to heal…

🏡Working out in September and using onomatopoeia in writing. 0:19 🥁A story for children; "I Want to Play Drums" 1:41 👂Thinking about sounds in your world. 6:54 🧒Using poetry as therapy for children who've been bullied, but also for bullies: 📗https://cynthiagustavson.com/2020/08/15/bully-the-big-book-about-bullies-and-the-bullied/…

🏖️ Hope you have been to the beach this summer, haven't you? 00:15 ☯️ Two kinds of people in the world, according to various dichotomies. 00:45 ⌛ [poem: "Walking on Sand"] 01:41 🤔 Have we ever considered that we are the "top dogs"? 06:18 🙏 Visit Cynthia at http://cynthiagustavson.com and find out more about her books at https://www.bloomingtwig.com…

🌅 The most beautiful August ever! 00:15 👉 Introducing the poem. 00:35 💇‍♀️ [poem: "Split Ends"] 01:16 ❓ Split ends as a metaphor and what it means. What are the remaining hairs? 02:24 3️⃣Three things that make up your braid, and what escaped the braids. 03:14 🙏 Visit Cynthia at http://cynthiagustavson.com and find out more about her books at https:…

🔠 Following is a new children's story, where many homonyms are used. 00:15 🎢 ["Merry Mary at the Fair and the Unfair Merry-Go-Round Fair - A Story in Homonyms"] 02:08 🎙️ "Being a poet, I love the sound of language." 05:47 🖥️ Visit Cynthia at http://cynthiagustavson.com and look up Cynthia's books at https://www.bloomingtwig.com/Authors/Cynthia-Gust…

🛖 We all have our own special connections to log cabins, don't we? 00:15 🍂 [poem: Knotty Pine and Cozy Dark] 01:39 🌱 Find your unwinding time and place, so you can find yourself, again. 04:45 🙏 Visit Cynthia at http://cynthiagustavson.com and find out more about her books at https://www.bloomingtwig.com/Authors/Cynthia-Gustavson.…

🤔 Who am I? There are so many ways to answer this question. 00:32 👴 [Cynthia introduces and reads a poem about her grandfather, Mr. Knoblauch] 02:56 👶 Children are born with their temperament, their personality. 05:57 ⤴️ We are often compared to certain family members. 06:24 👩‍🍼 On mothers' and babies' temperaments, and an experiment. 07:03 🧶 [Cynt…

📖 Two tomatoes-related poems from the book "Con-Versing with God". 00:15 🍅 Cynthia receives the "August Tomatoes" 00:57 🪖 Cynthia reads the second poem, "Tomatoes in Cages" 01:42 🌡️ Tomatoes as a metaphor and the weather in Oklahoma 02:45 🙏 Visit Cynthia at http://cynthiagustavson.com and find out more about "Con-Versing with God: Poetry Workbook f…

📚 Kent explains the origin of his publishing company name and its tagline 01:16 🪖 Soldiers getting used to reading through comic books and how that resonates with writing books that people want to read. 03:17 💝 All of the publishing is driven by money. Don't let that stop you from creating something beautiful. 05:33 👃 The sense of smell. 06:41 🖍️ T…

⚖️ How do we judge what matters and what does not? 01:21 🎛️ The system and its influence on what we think matters. 01:50 🤼 "Bully! The Big Book About Bullies and the Bullied" was written for both the bullies and the bullied. 02:11 🪞 [Cynthia introduces and recites her poem "Moles"] 03:12 👾 Being judged because of your age, gender, ability and the f…

🌀 Cynthia introduces the podcast as a workshop for listeners to discover who they are. 00:15 🔛 Inversing your life for the better 00:49 💪 Poetry as therapy 1:43 ✍️ Poem introduction and structure 2:52 🎙️ "Addiction" poem 3:23 🤹 The assignment: describe your "circle" 4:40 https://www.facebook.com/cynthia.gustavson…

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