Foreword / Ross Gay -- The necessity of joy / James Crews -- Hope / Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer -- Dandelion / Ted Kooser -- Promise / Barbara Crooker -- At the age of 18 : ode to girls of color / Amanda Gorman -- In any event / Dorianne Laux -- Astral chorus / Laura Grace Weldon -- My daughter's singing / Garret Keizer -- Surprise breakfast / David Romtvedt -- The facts of life / Ron Wallace -- Fifteen years later, I see how it went / Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer -- The newborns / Kathryn Hunt -- Shells / Christen Pagett -- Bus stop / Laure-Anne Bosselaar -- Hoodie / January Gill O'Neil -- Angel / Terri Kirby Erickson -- Thankful for now / Todd Davis -- Reflective pause : the joy of presence -- Autism poem : the grid / Barbara Crooker -- Kindergarten studies the human heart / Diana Whitney -- Valentine's day / Gail Newman -- In gratitude / Abigail Carroll -- Held open / Michelle Wiegers -- Listening for your name / David Graham -- Another day filled with sleeves of light / Heather Swan -- A cure against poisonous thought / Annie Light Hart -- Forgiveness / Mary McCue -- Two weeks after a silent retreat / Heather Lanier -- Reflective pause : the kingdom at hand -- Today, when I could do nothing / Jane Hirshfield -- Red thyme / Laura Ann Reed -- The once invisible garden / Laura Foley -- Down to earth / James Crews -- Old friends / Freya Manfield -- Let it rain / Brad Peacock -- Against panic / Molly Fisk -- Over the weather / Naomi Shihab Nye -- Notions / Paula Gordon Lepp -- Any common desolation / Ellen Bass -- Reflective pause : returning to the world -- Language, prayer, and grace / Mark Nepo -- The fish / Jane Hirshfield -- Reincarnate / Patricia Fargnoli -- Innocence / Linda Hogan -- Everything is made of labor / Farnaz Fatemi -- Apple blossoms / Susan Kelly-DeWitt -- Growing apples / Nancy Miller Gomez -- Aspen / Danusha Laméris -- With trees / Margaret Hasse -- Shelter in place / Kim Stafford -- Missing key / Heather Newman -- Climbing the golden mountain / Michael Kiesow Moore -- To see it / Laura Foley -- Unclouded vision / Jacqueline Jules -- Improvement / Danusha Laméris -- Reflective pause : grateful for small victories -- After spending the morning baking bread / Jack Ridl -- Radiance / Wally Swist -- Morning / Kristen Case -- Wedding poem / Ross Gay -- Pledge / Jehanne Debrow -- Amores perros / Angela Narciso Torres -- Mending / Noah Davis -- In the dark / Penny Harter -- A candle in the night / Nathan Spoon -- Praise of darkness / Francine Marie Tolf -- An essay on age / Judith Chalmer -- Easter morning / Ted Kooser -- The cardinal reminds me / Andrea Potos -- When life seems a to-do list / Marjorie Saiser -- Moon / Lahab Assef Al-Jundi -- Because the night you asked / Crystal S. Gibbins -- September swim / Rob Hunter -- What to do / Joyce Sutphen -- Any morning / William Stafford -- Reflective pause : pieces of heaven -- How it might continue / Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer -- From blossoms / Li-Young Lee -- Motherhood / Jessica Gigot -- Wondrous / Sarah Freligh -- Summer apples / Cathryn Essinger -- Third year of my mother's dementia / Lynne Knight -- Rabbit / Heather Swan -- Laughter / Dale Biron -- In the company of women / January Gill O'Neil -- Leaning to the light / Alice Wolf Gilborn -- I watched an angel in the emergency room / Andrea Potos -- When giving is all we have / Alberto Ríos -- Offering / Albert Garcia -- Too many to count / Alison Luterman -- If I carry my father / Marjorie Saiser -- Weather / George Bilgere -- Work / Sally Bliumis-Dunn -- Reflective pause : the joy of making -- Goldfinches / Danusha Laméris -- The lesser goldfinch / Connie Wanek -- The word / Tony Hoagland -- Tomorrow / Barbara Crooker -- Quail hollow / Cynthia White -- Compost happens / Laura Grace Weldon -- Part of the landscape / Joan Mazza -- Essential gratitude / Andrea Potos -- Reflective pause : the gratitude list -- Gratitude list / Laura Foley -- The dog body of my soul / Katherine Williams -- Scratch, sniff / Katie Rubinstein -- Summer cottage / Mary Elder Jacobsen -- Coming home at twilight in late summer / Jane Kenyon -- Perceptive prayer / Grace Bauer -- Sap icicles / Patricia Fontaine -- The lesson of the falling leaves / Lucille Clifton -- A dervish of leaves / Ted Kooser -- Winter morning / James Crews -- The good life / Tracy K. Smith -- Thanksgiving for two / Marjorie Saiser -- Reflective pause : the feast of each moment -- Nest / Jeffrey Harrison -- Getting into bed on a December night / Ellen Bass -- Everybody made soups / Lisa Coffman -- Darkest before dawn / James Crews -- Rosary / Brad Peacock -- To ask / Julie Murphy -- There doesn't need to be a poem / Tess Taylor -- Wingspan / Amy Dryansky -- Eagle poem / Joy Harjo -- What matters / Terri Kirby Reickson -- In love with the world / Mark Nepo -- Reading group questions and topics for discussion -- Poet biographies -- Credits.
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