Kindness: Part I

In this memoir, I explore the topic of kindness in relation to tribalism and bullying, especially the bullying of children.

The young girl, Izzy Dixs, featured in the photo selected for this podcast, committed suicide in 2013 due to bullying. My prayers go out to Izzy. Her poem “I Give Up” was published in the Daily Mail Online, and other places, after her death in 2013.  

I read my poems "Cocoon Street, Anywhere, USA" and "Be You".

Emily Dickinson's poem "If I Could Stop One Heart From Breaking" can be found at www.PoemHunter.com.

I read from Rainer Maria Rilke's work The Book of Hours: Love Poems to God, translated by Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy (2005, Riverhead Books).

Naomi Shihab Nye's poem "Kindness" can be found at poets.org and her book Words Under the Words: Selected Poems. Copyright © 1995.

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Barbara Harris Leonhard is a writer, poet, and blogger. Her work appears in Phoebe, MD: Medicine and Poetry, Well Versed 2020, Spillwords; FREE VERSE REVOLUTION; Heretics, Lovers and Madmen; Go Dog Go Café; Silver Birch Press; Amethyst Review; Pillbaby.com; and Vita Brevis. She is the author of Discoveries in Academic Writing, which is based on her years of teaching English as a Second Language at the University of Missouri.

Blog: extraordinarysunshineweaver.blog

Podcast: meelosmom.podbean.com

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