Tag: Downtown
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A special place for all of us: the libraries
There’s little in this world that fills my heart with lightness like a library. On Friday nights sometimes that’s where you’ll find me. As someone who has come to love the intimacy and delicate character of each of 4 library systems (LA County, LAPL, SM, and Pasadena) and their branches as I’ve explored living in LA,…
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Poetry Helps Life Fall Into Place: Symmetry
What I love about poetry is how words are like rain. They fall from the sky but it is up to us to consider the raindrops as more than just rain, as energy, expression and impetus. Words are very powerful things and as writers we must be careful to wield them cautiously. In a poem,…