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Beginner's Heart
two years after ~
By
Britton Gildersleeve
When I tell people — sometimes even close friends — that I miss my father-in-law at least as much as my own father, they react in two ways: Some flat don’t believe me. Others want to know why, as if my father was somehow a monster. He wasn’t — just gone a lot, and we…
Louder Than a Bomb review ~
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Britton Gildersleeve
A mic. A stage. A pen. A page. You don’t have to be a poet to love Louder Than a Bomb, a documentary of the 2008 Chicago Louder Than a Bomb youth poetry slam competition. Although it’s certainly a poet’s movie: scored by poets, written by and about poets, filmed by directors/producers with poetic hearts.…
“Landscape of the heart” ~
By
Britton Gildersleeve
A lovely website that has beautiful, whimsical drawings and inspirational short ‘stories.’ This one helps as I miss my father-in-law today ~ Landscape of the Heart (Masculine) It is still so new & all we see is the empty space, but that is not how it is in the landscape of the heart. There, there…
a moment in the rock’n’roll sun ~
By
Britton Gildersleeve
Here’s a video that literally brought tears to my eyes. I’ve always loved Paul Simon. In his earlier incarnation (Simon & Garfunkle) he got me through one of the hardest summers of my life. Later, his music got me through one bad spot after another, and helped me celebrate the bright moments that linked the…
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