Dear Friends,
2025 has flown by as we approach the end of the summer season. This summer was filled with rain and heat. During these conditions, it is best to be indoors, surrounded by loved ones. The outdoors is not always welcoming, but if you listen to Mother Nature closely, she may bring people closer together.
Amy Lowell once said, “God made me a businesswoman, and I made myself a poet.” She published more than 650 poems and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry after her death in 1926.
“Summer Rain” by Amy Lowell is meant to be read aloud with loved ones as they can make all the difference in challenging times:
“All night our room was outer-walled with rain.
Drops fell and flattened on the tin roof,
And rang like little disks of metal.
Ping!—Ping!—and there was not a pin-point of silence between
them.
The rain rattled and clashed,
And the slats of the shutters danced and glittered.
But to me the darkness was red-gold and crocus-colored
With your brightness,
And the words you whispered to me
Sprang up and flamed—orange torches against the rain.
Torches against the wall of cool, silver rain!”
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Best,
