A TRUE HAPPY HOUR
IT’S TIME FOR RUMINATIONS: NEUROSCIENCE ON SPONTANEOUS AND INSTANTANEOUS HAPPINESS, A PRACTICE OF MIND-FULL-NESS, WITH RUMI AND PRACTICIONERS ANDREW WEIL AND RICK HANSON, WITH WHAT POETRY HAS TO DO WITH IT ALL, INCLUDING WHAT TO MAKE OF MEDICAL SCIENCE ON NATURE DEFICIT DISORDER, GRATITUDE JOURNALS, AND MORE

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To the coooool notes of the Beatles, “Hey Jude” (“better better better
better”), Frank Sinatra’s “I Wish You Love” (“and in July, a lemonade, to
cool you in the summer shade”), Simon and Garfunkle, “Bridge Over Troubled
Waters” (“like a bridge over troubled waters, I will lay you down”), and
Richard and Mimi Farina, “Pack Up Your Sorrows” (“you’ve got to pack up
your sorrows, and give them all to me, you would lose them, I know how to
use them”), we hear

AND IN JULY A LEMONADE:
A MEDITATION ON TRANSFORMATION
BUTTERFLIES DO IT AND POETS DO IT TOO--
WHAT POETRY MAKES OF LIFE’S LEMONS
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WELL I DECLARE:  LAYING IT ON THE LINE, POST JULY 4 REFLECTIONS ON GAME-CHANGING DECLARATIONS, PURSUITS AS FAR AS POETRY GOES, IN LOVE, LIFE, INDEPENDENCE, RIGHTS, AND OTHER KINDS OF HAPPINESS

Featuring Edna St. Vincent Millay, Duane Esposito, Oscar Wilde, Thomas Jefferson, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Gary Snyder, Walt Whitman, Julia Ward Howe, Emily Dickinson, Henry David Thoreau, Nan Lundeen, Kim Addonizio

I (do) declare!

I declare (to goodness)!

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Music:
Annie Get Your Gun, I’ve got the sun in the morning and the moon at night
Beatles, Hard Day’s Night
Machine Gun Kelly, Invincible
Man of La Mancha, The Impossible Dream (lyrics, Joe Darion)

Dedicated to Nelson Mandela

*SPLENDOR IN THE CHAOS; LOVE, LOSS, AND WHAT I WORE; HOW AND WHY POETRY
MATTERS*, PART TWO:

THE PHYSICS AND METAPHYSICS AND THEATER OF BOUNCE, OR HOW TIGGER GOT HIS
POUNCE BACK WHEN LIFE IS A BEAR BEAST CHORE HEADACHE HORROR SHOW KILLER
STICKY WICKET AND MORE, AND WHAT WE CAN LEARN ON HOW AND WHY TO BE CALM AND
CARRY ON
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