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🎊Happy New Year 🎊
Let's go #BFC2022

Easy goals to ease into January...
📖 Book goal is to read 2 books.
🚶‍♀️Fitness goal is to go on morning walks at least 6 days a week.

Thanks for keeping us going @wanderinglynn

Quiet haiku like poems to calm my anxious squirrel brain. Thank you to @Redwritinghood for posting about this lovely book

Ok- Whiskey is tired of waiting for me to decide to walk in the freezing cold- he wants to go now so I will return to the audiobook portion of my reading and maybe finish one of the several things I have started- January has been a very fragmented reading month so far- by the first of February I should finish about 10 things in one week!!🤣 #DogsOfLitsy

I deeply enjoyed this collection of short poems. Written during a time when the author was undergoing cancer treatments and had to avoid strong sunlight, early morning winter walks were his only chance to be outside. The poems are short because they were made to fit on a postcard that he sent to a fellow poet. These short observations of the landscape and wildlife reflect the author‘s pensive mood and love of the world around him.

#poemsbeforephones What a great conclusion to this lovely collection! RTC

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#poemsbeforephones It‘s a beautiful sunny day where I am, but I loved the imagery in this poem about a foggy winter morning.

#poemsbeforephones For some reason, this whimsical description of an owl flying back to his nest in the early winter morning has really stuck with me. I had not really read Kooser before, but will definitely be checking out more of his poetry.

#poemsbeforephones I‘m really enjoying reading these on cold winter mornings. They‘re making the winter feel more cozy.

#poemsbeforephones This collection has some really lovely winter landscape descriptions. 🌕💫💫

This poetry volume immediately came to mind when I saw the #walking prompt for #150pnpcoverparty! Turns out I already posted about this book a year ago.

Sorry it‘s so small— screen capture then zoom if you want to read the poetry 😊.

During one winter, poet Ted Kooser wrote a new poem daily and sent them on postcards to his friend Jim Harrison (RIP). This is a wonderful wintry #poetry pick.

What's happening in my journal right now is what would happen if Winter Morning Walks and Dog Songs had a baby. Sadly, right now, it's proof that not all babies are pretty. Maybe it will improve with age, though.