Musings – Page 2 – nancy bo flood

Water is Magic

April 5, 2022

Let us continue Celebrating Water.

Water’s Children

March 29, 2022

Water: a book, a poem, a brief essay … a continuation of the celebration of water.

Walking for Water

March 22, 2022

Water is precious. Water is life. Water is unfair, but this doesn’t have to be.

Mental Health: The Giver

March 15, 2022

Lois Lowry: “I think it’s something that literature does, that writing does, that speaking about things does. It keeps our hearts from breaking.”

Mental Health: Reading Paulsen’s Autobiography

March 8, 2022

A few weeks ago, someone was asking about books that touched upon—or included—domestic abuse/ family violence. Paulsen’s book is an autobiography.

Writing the Story of Mental Illness for Young Readers

March 1, 2022

I have been pulled toward the subject of suicide since I was a teen despite its stigma, and worked on my first suicide hotline when I was eighteen. That’s because as an adolescent I struggled not only with depression but with some periods of suicidality, and I understand the dangerous power and seduction of it when one is suffering mental despair.

S.D. Nelson

February 8, 2022

S.D. Nelson, Standing Rock Sioux, author and artist, meticulous researcher, passionate about the history of his people, his ancestors, his homeland, Indian and white, has written the epic story of Crazy Horse and Custer.

Singularity (after Stephen Hawking)

January 25, 2022

Being process not a thing, not matter more thoughts and this poem Singularity by Marie Howe (after Stephen Hawking) Do you sometimes want to wake up to the singularity We once were? So…

Chinle Planting Hope

January 11, 2022

Imagine this. During the pandemic your schools have been closed for over a year. The nearest public library is over 70 miles away. There are no bookstores.