may 28 w online meeting #46

For your MOM: [If you haven't been doing a minute of mindfulness each day -- if you've been telling yourself you're too busy, you're too stressed, it doesn't matter, whatever-- stop cheating yourself. Give yourself the gift of a minute. Better yet, give yourself 5-10.]

JOURNAL TOPIC: In a normal year, everyone would be gearing up for finals week and eyeing the exits for summer. How do you feel about the end of school this year? Are you looking forward to having a break for summer vacation?

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You can use your journal simply to write about life and your experiences in these unusual, challenging times.

AGENDA:
1. MOM
2. Journal
3. Meeting
4. Post

POST:
Today on Zoom we read and discussed two poems by Emily Dickinson: "Hope is the thing with feathers" and "Because I could not stop for death." The poems deal with vastly different subjects, but they also have some things in common: 1) they reify abstract ideas through the use of metaphor, b) they use figurative language to paint pictures in the mind of the reader, and c) they use specific meters to create a sense of rhyme and rhythm. Perhaps most importantly, they both deal with topics that exist in all our lives. Over this time period, hope seems especially important. Please read both and post your thoughts (title: THE POEMS OF EMILY DICKINSON)