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So lovely and encouraging. Thank you, Elizabeth.

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💛🌿💫

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This is so wonderful. I was just out looking at the stars and then I read this! Thank you!

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All those stars are yours, Shondra, and all the sky around them! ✨

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The sky is ours to write on

so let's warm up our

jet engines & fly,

baby, fly.

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That's one way to do it! Thanks for reading, Mike.

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Such a beautiful, permissive poem. One of my favorite poetic lines (David Whyte) is “The world was made to be free in”. This piece has beautiful intonations that bring me to that line.

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Echoes! Glad to bring you back to a favorite line, Brian. Thank you for reading.

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Beautiful Elizabeth; with big, poofy words!

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And other words full of air, to sail the poofy ones around!

Thanks for reading, Ron. Wishing you lots of sky in the year to come.

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What a beautiful poem to kick off a new year! Thank you!

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Thanks, Petrina! Wishing you peace, purpose, and joy (and occasionally some rest!) in the year to come.

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Be our own skywriter.

Auntie B

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Yes! Go for it, B.!

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I just love this. So hopeful and just the poem I needed today!

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I'm so glad, LeeAnn! Wishing you peace, purpose, and poems in the year to come.

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That’s a lovely new year’s wish. I wish you peace, purpose, and poems as well.

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Happy New Year!

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This is so very beautiful thank you

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So glad it spoke to you, Kathleen! Thank you for reading and commenting.

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Happy New Year Elizabeth. I really appreciate your relationship to writing; your willingness to get out of the way and be "surprised" by what comes out.

You know, the thing I like about writing most is how "paper and ink" are so cheap. Write now, worry later...❤️

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For a fact! Thanks for reading and writing, Poetry Kitt.

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Perfect.

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You're kind to say so, Kim -- I'm glad it spoke to you. Wishing you peace and purpose in the year to come!

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Happy New Year Elizabeth... I love this poem. It deeply resonated with me.

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I'm so glad, Pamela. Wishing you health, peace, and purpose in the year to come.

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"Take all the space you need, love. Fill all

the space you fill. The whole sky

is yours to write on. The whole sky is yours."

Happy New Year Elizabeth! Thank you for this loving invitation. We sorely need it.

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We do, Ann, we do. That's why (I remind myself) it matters to write down the loving invitations when we hear them, so we can go back to them on harder days and remember the truth of what we heard.

Thank you for all the loving attention you bring to the world and to your writing and your writing-friends. Love and peace to you in the year to come!

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What a good practice to write those down 💛💛💛

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Elizabeth--good morning, Happy New Year and thank you--this gracious poem filled me with such quiet joy--you should have seen the smile on my face.

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So glad and grateful to hear that it gave you that joy, Jody. Wishing you peace and purpose and continued joy in the year to come.

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Wept hard. Breathed out. Felt like you were saying yes to every single person on the planet. Thank you, for giving me the space I needed today. The whole sky is yours, too.

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Enough sky for everyone! Thank you so much, Jim, for reading and for sharing this heart-response. Yes to you, in particular!

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This is the most beautiful beautifulness! Thank you, Elizabeth!! Happy New Year to you, wonderful friend!

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New Year hugs to you, Jeni, and to Stanley Bear and Albee Bear and Odile and Betsy and all their friends! Thank you for everything that you and your crew show us about how much love there is in mending and being mended.

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