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Do you ever picture the faces of the people you most love, and feel a kind of ease and comfort wash through you?

Words by Winter: Conversations, reflections, and poems about the passages of life. Because it’s rough out there, and we have to help each other through.

Original theme music for our show is by Dylan Perese. Additional music by Kelly Krebs. Artwork by Mark Garry. Today's poem, Poem, by Langston Hughes, is in the public domain. Words by Winter can be reached at wordsbywinterpodcast@gmail.com.

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What would you most like to be known for? If a single word could be engraved on your headstone that would describe you, what would that word be?

Words by Winter: Conversations, reflections, and poems about the passages of life. Because it’s rough out there, and we have to help each other through.

Original theme music for our show is by Dylan Perese. Additional music by Kelly Krebs. Artwork by Mark Garry. Naomi Shihab Nye’s beautiful poem Famous is read with her kind permission. I encourage you all to look up her work, as she is one of my and our country’s most beloved poets.

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In which I contemplate, with H.D.'s help, how the incredibly long-lasting vase of flowerish plants on my table makes me think of hands, reaching up out of the sea.

Words by Winter: Conversations, reflections, and poems about the passages of life. Because it’s rough out there, and we have to help each other through.

Original theme music for our show is by Dylan Perese. Additional music by Kelly Krebs. Artwork by Mark Garry. Today's poem, Oread, by H.D., is in the public domain. Words by Winter can be reached at wordsbywinterpodcast@gmail.com.