
Bonnie cycles on (feat. Sasha LaPointe)
09/01/23 • 32 min
Host Todd Boss enlists the help of Indigenous poet Sasha LaPointe to motivate Bonnie on her journey of healing and exploration, through the inspiring Skagit Valley landscape.
Chapters in this episode:
- One more great feat
- Pain, glory, and a conservative church
- Two worlds: Transformation is real
- Skagit Valley and its heritage
- However: Two worlds
- Bonnie meets Sasha
- Sasha LaPointe reads "Cycles"
- A circle of fir trees in prayer
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Do you think there's a poem in your story? Leave Todd a voicemail on our Haiku, Hawaii, listener line: 808-300-0449.
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Host Todd Boss enlists the help of Indigenous poet Sasha LaPointe to motivate Bonnie on her journey of healing and exploration, through the inspiring Skagit Valley landscape.
Chapters in this episode:
- One more great feat
- Pain, glory, and a conservative church
- Two worlds: Transformation is real
- Skagit Valley and its heritage
- However: Two worlds
- Bonnie meets Sasha
- Sasha LaPointe reads "Cycles"
- A circle of fir trees in prayer
Join the conversation and get bonus content at poeminthat.com ... or become a listener supporter by pitching in monthly to help us make TAPIT magic, here.
Do you think there's a poem in your story? Leave Todd a voicemail on our Haiku, Hawaii, listener line: 808-300-0449.
Follow us on Facebook.
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Ken rewinds the clocks
The image of an adult on a tricycle — precarious and uncertain — became the driving force behind the poem Ken needed for his wife Sue's memorial service.
Chapters in this episode:
- Introduction at the cabin
- A couple of loons on tricycles
- Ken and Sue take on the world together
- Swiss miss, cuckoo clocks, and finding a home in one another
- Sue’s diagnosis, surgery, complications, and passing
- Lost time and post-life letters
- The poem: “It Was a Lark”
Join the conversation and get bonus content at poeminthat.com ... or become a listener supporter by pitching in monthly to help us make TAPIT magic, here.
Do you think there's a poem in your story? Leave Todd a voicemail on our Haiku, Hawaii, listener line: 808-300-0449.
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Holly sings a new hymn
Host Todd Boss converses with Holly about the tragic loss of her son Killian. Her changing relationship and communion with God and His will for her life inspire a graceful, grateful hymn.
Chapters in this episode:
- Holly catalogs her losses
- A bit of background
- Killian's silence
- Finding peace in a new place
- A shifting sense of identity and God
- Telling the truth about grief
- The poem: Hymn
Join the conversation and get bonus content at poeminthat.com ... or become a listener supporter by pitching in monthly to help us make TAPIT magic, here.
Do you think there's a poem in your story? Leave Todd a voicemail on our Haiku, Hawaii, listener line: 808-300-0449.
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