Spiritual Journey Thursday and Poetry Friday, Week 52: 2025 OLW and an Invitation

Yes, it says "Week 52" and yet, it's January 2, 2025.  It's one of those mischievous ways of the calendar.
The first Thursday is Spiritual Journey Thursday and tomorrow is Poetry Friday.  Margaret Simon has Spiritual Journal Thursday and Mary Lee at A(nother) Year of Reading hosting  Poetry Friday.

Spiritual Journey Thursday: 2025 One Little Word

For the last thirteen years, I have chosen a One Little Word. My 2024 word was "Expand-take a Risk." It served me so well.  From sharing art in the community to going to Japan, my world expanded.  So in thinking for the word this, several came to  mind. I've chosen DREAM for 2025. Langston Hughes' "Hold fast to dreams /For if dreams die/ Life is a broken-winged bird/That cannot fly. " has always resonated with me.  
Finding quotes that make me want to copy them down has been trickier.  I found two that I used for golden shovels.  A golden shovel, riffing on wilde.
A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
~Oscar Wilde
I disagree with Wilde...it's never a punishment to see the sunrise.
​And this quote by Anaïs Nin:
Dreams are necessary to life.
~Anaïs Nin

Dreamers find their way by moonlight

Consort with the dreamers
the ones who find
the tchotchkes and trinkets left on their 
​deck by crows. The ones who know the way 
to the sea by
their whimsy and moonlight

​©jone rush macculloch, 2025 (draft)

Dreams are necessary to life
Anais Nin

​In my dreams 
the ravens are 
at the feeder. They’ve returned the necessary 
keys and word, I lost last decade to 
the divine chaos of life.
©jone rush macculloch, 2025 (draft)

Invitation for Saturday, January 18, 2025

What: "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." - Martin Luther King Jr.

Let's create or write poems for persistence, for presence during the Martin Luther King, Jr. weekend. Let's share our work in community.

If you are a writer, a poet, a slow stitcher, or artist, join us for a couple hours of creative community. 10-12 EST
If you can only join us for an hour, great. Join us.

Join here:  Creating for Persistence.

WINTER POETRY SWAP JOY

I'm always excited when Tabatha Yeatts puts out the call for poetry swaps.  I love out poetry community, our connected collective. This year, Tanita Davis and l swapped.  Her poetry rock will be on display with my other rock words,  She's nudged me with some slow stitching with a little  felt embroidery project and given me words for future poems.  Thank you, Tanita.

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