Riehlife Poetry Treasuretrove of the Day: PBS Fooling with Words

Wow! Go over the Bill Moyers Journal for links to poetry videos and transcripts of your favorite poets.
Hey, Hal Manogue! Here’s a video of Coleman Barks reciting Rumi that will set you up for several days!

Hal Manogue’s designed to bloom in love—expanding the Regenerative Living Design Dialogue from our Riehl-Tweit Blog Duet

A.C.E. Hal Manogue’s TM (Aware Connected Energy)
For those Riehlife and Community of the Land (Susan Tweit’s blog) readers who’ve been intrigued by our Blog Duet on the theme of Regenerative Design/Living, hop on over to Hal Manogue’s “Living a Non-Ordinary Life in a Non Ordinary Way” for a thoughtful essay that expands this dialogue. [...]

“Getting to Know You” blogging Meme…ta-da-ta-da…”Getting to know what to say…”

Sing along, now, everybody, all together:
“Getting to know you,
Getting to feel free and easy
When I am with you,
Getting to know what to say”
That’s the essence of the “Getting to Know You” blogging meme which Isabella Mori of Change Therapy has just tagged me to participate in.

Poinsetta, December-child’s flower
DECEMBER
12 characteristics…one for each month of the year.
1. [...]

Writers in the Sky February Newsletter presents Riehl’s poem “Window Frame” from “Sightlines: A Poet’s Diary”

Yvonne Perry of Writers in the Sky Creative Writing Services asked me to send her a poem for her February newsletter. Click here to read the entire newsletter.
I sent an excerpt from WINDOW FRAME originally published in “Sightlines: A Poet’s Diary” and dedicated to my mother Ruth Evelyn Johnston Thompson (January 4, 1916-May 1, 2006). [...]

Riehlife Back of the Envelope Book Marketing Plan for “Pen to Print” Panel at SCN National Memoir Conference, Austin, Texas

In 2006 I published my book “Sightlines: A Poet’s Diary”with iUniverse. While my first-line audience was friends and family, I quickly found there were second-third-and-fourth-line audiences rippling out there who were interested in my book, my topic, and by extension, in me and what I thought and had to say. I marketed “Sightlines” by every [...]