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kenne's avatar

Ren, Hang in there. It's so nice to hear from you.

Ren Powell's avatar

Thank you. That's kind of you!

Ann E. Michael's avatar

Good to read your voice again, Ren. Untangling is difficult but not impossible. We're listening (some of us from the edges--we outlier sorts).

Ren Powell's avatar

Lone wolve sort of howling from ends of the forest. If laboring a metaphor.

Rita Ott Ramstad's avatar

I think, maybe, shame and hurt are entwined like the fibers that make up a strand of yarn. You can tear them apart, but then you don't have yarn, the thing from which you can knit something to keep warm. Seeing it that way, though--that the yarn is not one thing, but a a combination of things--that brings a kind of clarity that feels like an untangling.

I'm glad you are back, as much a poet as ever.

Ren Powell's avatar

Thank you for that perspective.

Michela Griffith's avatar

I’m glad you are here again Ren, writing beautifully.

Ren Powell's avatar

Thank you. I'm also looking forward to catching up on reading.

Frank Sauce's avatar

you're writing is better than ever!

Ren Powell's avatar

Thank-you.

Di Mackey's avatar

I found you. Much loved friend of mine, lost in the mess that was Facebook, that is life. Much love, from this place where I am living such a remote life but ... I needed to do this. x