Podcasts about rosemerry wahtola trommer

Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer knows grief. Her dad and son died in the same year. Like her latest book, The Unfolding, if this interview were music, it would be in the key of grief. Rosemerry shares how her daily writing practice helped her navigate the days and weeks following her son's death. She also explains how we can hold opposite things that may both be true. We can let go of the tired stories we tell ourselves and find new metaphors that better serve us. You can find Rosemerry's work and learn more about her poetry here: https://www.wordwoman.com/

➡ CLICK HERE to send me a text, I'd love to hear what you thought about this episode! Leave your name in the text so I know who it's from! If you've been following along, you know yesterday was the Gathering of the Guests and 20 of Cream City Dreams' previous guests got together to share coffee, conversation and connections! This week on the Digest, hear how it went, plus an invitation for newsletter subscribers and a permission to BE BIG from poet, Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer. So many incredible Milwaukee women at one table. Maybe YOU can join us next time, make sure you're on the newsletter to find out when! Support the show

Sarah Peyton is a Certified Trainer of Nonviolent Communication. She teaches people how language changes relationship and the brain. She works with audiences internationally to create a compassionate understanding of the effects of relational trauma on the brain, and writes about and teaches people how words change and heal us.Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer is a poet. She has 13 collections of poetry, and her work has appeared in O Magazine, A Prairie Home Companion, PBS News Hour, American Life in Poetry, on fences, in back alleys, on Carnegie Hall Stage and on hundreds of river rocks she leaves around her town of Placerville, Colorado. Her most recent collection, Hush, won the Halcyon prize. Devoted to helping others explore creative practice, Rosemerry is also co-host of Emerging Form, a podcast on creative process; co-founder of Secret Agents of Change (a surreptitious kindness cabal); and co-leader of Soul Writers Circle.In This Episode:Sarah's WebsiteYour Resonant Self: Guided Meditations and Exercises to Engage Your Brain's Capacity for Healing, by Sarah PeytonRosemerry's websiteThe Unfolding: Poems, by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer---If you'd like to support The Trauma Therapist Podcast and the work I do you can do that here with a monthly donation of $5, $7, or $10: Donate to The Trauma Therapist Podcast.Click here to join my email list and receive podcast updates and other news.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-trauma-therapist--5739761/support.

CLICK HERE to send me a text, I'd love to hear what you thought about this episode! Leave your name in the text so I know who it's from! Links I mention this week in the Friday Digest! Persisters Listen to their episode from this week! (the PERSISTers)Poem from Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer's new book The UnfoldingAndrea Scher - Moonflower Oracle CardsHanan Refugees Relief Group - donate today!And tune in next week for another incredible Milwaukee woman, living her dream in the Cream City! Support the show

Sarah Peyton is a Certified Trainer of Nonviolent Communication. She teaches people how language changes relationship and the brain. She works with audiences internationally to create a compassionate understanding of the effects of relational trauma on the brain, and writes about and teaches people how words change and heal us.Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer is a poet. She has 13 collections of poetry, and her work has appeared in O Magazine, A Prairie Home Companion, PBS News Hour, American Life in Poetry, on fences, in back alleys, on Carnegie Hall Stage and on hundreds of river rocks she leaves around her town of Placerville, Colorado. Her most recent collection, Hush, won the Halcyon prize. Devoted to helping others explore creative practice, Rosemerry is also co-host of Emerging Form, a podcast on creative process; co-founder of Secret Agents of Change (a surreptitious kindness cabal); and co-leader of Soul Writers Circle.In This Episode:Sarah's WebsiteYour Resonant Self: Guided Meditations and Exercises to Engage Your Brain's Capacity for Healing, by Sarah PeytonRosemerry's websiteThe Unfolding: Poems, by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer---If you'd like to support The Trauma Therapist Podcast and the work I do you can do that here with a monthly donation of $5, $7, or $10: Donate to The Trauma Therapist Podcast.Click here to join my email list and receive podcast updates and other news.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-trauma-therapist--5739761/support.

Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer has been writing and sharing a poem a day since 2006—a practice that especially nourished her after the death of her teenage son in 2021. Her daily poems can be found on her blog, A Hundred Falling Veils, or a curated version (with optional prompts) on her daily audio series, The Poetic Path, available with the Ritual app. Her poetry collection Hush won the Halcyon Prize. Naked for Tea was a finalist for the Able Muse Book Award. Her most recent collections are All the Honey and The Unfolding. In January 2024, she became the first poet laureate for Evermore, helping others through this platform to explore grief, bereavement, wonder, and love through the voice of poetry. She is the co-hosts of a podcast on creative process called Emerging Form. This episode was recorded live at TACAW in Basalt, Colorado. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this guided meditation, led by Julie Potiker you will be focusing on your gifts and what it is you need right now. She completes the meditation with the poem, "At the Market", by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer."At The Market", by Rosemerry Wahtola TrommerNow when I walk through the marketI think of how someone else herebeside the stir-fry cart and the tie-dye tenthas just lost a belovedand is hiding tears behind sunglasses.Not knowing who they are,I try to treat everyone with kindness.Meanwhile the day is beautifulfor everyone, no matter how whole,how broken our hearts. It gathers us allin a grand blue embrace.I stroll through the gift of a Fridaymorning surrounded by arugulaand strawberries, muffins, lilies,and all these other fragile hearts,all of us saying Excuse me, Good morning,How are you, It's nice to see you today.-At The Market, by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer(from "The Unfolding poems").Find out more about using mindfulness in everyday life through Julie's books, "SNAP: From Calm to Chaos", and "Life Falls Apart, But You Don't have To: Mindful Methods for Staying Calm in the Midst of Chaos". Both are available on Amazon.com.Follow Julie on YouTube and Facebook at Mindful Methods for Life.comThis podcast is available on iTunes, iHeart, Blubrry and everywhere you listen to podcasts.

Air Date - 16 December 2024OMTimes Radio is honored to welcome poet, teacher, and workshop facilitator Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer to the VOICE RISING SHOW. Rosemerry will join host Kara Johnstad for a heartfelt and profound conversation about her latest poetry collection, The Unfolding.In The Unfolding, Rosemerry delves into the paradox of grief as a form of praise, capturing the sacred connection that blossoms from living wholeheartedly, even in the face of profound loss. Written after the deaths of her son and father, these poems embody both sorrow and celebration—heartbreaking yet uplifting, somber yet playful, even solemn and sexy.Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer's poetic voice offers surprising invitations to embrace the beauty of life, even in its most challenging moments.This episode will explore how grief, love, and nature intertwine and how poetry can serve as a healing practice—returning us home to ourselves and the beauty around us. We'll discuss the healing power of nature, the role of praise in her daily life, and how writing and connecting to our voice allows us to enter and honor the darkness of grief while keeping hope and light alive.Join us for this intimate exploration of love, loss, and the transformative power of poetry, and discover how each of us can use our voice to heal, inspire, and shift harm to harmony in our world.#RosemerryWahtolaTrommer #Poetry #VoiceRising  #KaraJohnstad #Music #Interviews #Voice#TheUnfolding #PoetryForHealing #GriefAndPraise #HealingThroughPoetry #TransformingGrief #EmbodyingPraise #PoetryAndHealing #LoveAndLoss #HealingWithWordsTo get in touch with Kara Johnstad, go to http://www.karajohnstad.com/Visit the Voice Rising show page https://omtimes.com/iom/shows/voice-rising/Subscribe to our Newsletter https://omtimes.com/subscribe-omtimes-magazine/Connect with OMTimes on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/Omtimes.Magazine/ and OMTimes Radio https://www.facebook.com/ConsciousRadiowebtv.OMTimes/Twitter: https://twitter.com/OmTimes/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/omtimes/Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/2798417/Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/omtimes/

The Sun (Conscious Self) in Sagittarius squares Neptune (Dreamer) in Pisces inviting you to shift beliefs that are self-deceptive and lean into beliefs that activate your inspiration visionary nature. Venus (Relational One) in Aquarius trines Jupiter (Wise One) in Gemini enhancing your love nature. Chani says with this cycle "risk everything for joy." Winter Solstice arrives in the Northern Hemisphere as the Sun enters Capricorn on December 21st. Pause to honor the gift of darkness to see more deeply into the mysteries of your inner light. Connect with your ancient ancestors who celebrated this holy seasonal shift.Podcast poem: "Grace" by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer (www.wordwoman.com)Support the showUse Sheila's referral code to shop for astrology books and gifts at Chani: https://bit.ly/4a3AfqMGo to Sheila's website for information on workshops, online courses and to subscribe to her weekly newsletter: https://www.ontheedgesofchange.comFollow Sheila: https://www.instagram.com/ontheedgesofchange https://www.pinterest.com/ontheedgesofchange

I'll be honest with you: the "great unraveling" is as real as the "great turning." They've always been happening at the same time. The unraveling was already accelerating, and now (late 2024) to see a democratic election process choose a path of more, worse, faster harm to our planet and our fellow human and more-than-human beings? It's been... deeply discouraging. For many I know, it's been devastating.And at the same time - always at the same time - I feel so blessed to have had a conversation with Cynthia Jurs about this. We spoke about that devastation, and our bewilderment, and how we keep going. We also talk miracles, activism, practice, awakening, and so much more. Cynthia's life has been devoted to embodied, engaged, sacred activism for the healing and protection of Mother Earth for decades. She is a spiritual teacher who doesn't describe herself as one, and I love learning from her.Interviewing Cynthia with me in this conversation are Erin Geesaman Rabke and Carl Rabke, of Embodiment Matters. We talk about Cynthia's stunning new book, Summoned by the Earth: Becoming a Holy Vessel for Healing Our WorldU.S. politics and the question: "Is this the flaming end of the patriarchy?"the interconnectedness of all lifecultural polarizationthe 4 sections of Cynthia's book: "answering the call," "hearing the cries of the world," "becoming a holy vessel," and "collective awakening"reactivity and activismpeacebuilding, and choosing not to fan the flames of blame, separation, and violencecomments from astrologers on this historical momentand Cynthia's profound experience in Greece at the Oracle of DelphiAs much as I enjoyed hearing everything Cynthia had to say on these topics, I valued hearing the way she spoke about it all. I hope you do too. May this conversation serve your healing and the healing of our world.Note: There are a number of times when Cynthia, Carl, Erin or I reference teachers and teachings, ideas and terms, that might not be familiar to you. (Many of them I've heard of for the first time in the last few years!) So, I've compiled some links with more info in the show notes. If you hear a name or a term and you're wondering who or what that is - or if you simply want to take an internet wander down some of our favorite paths related to indigenous wisdom, ecological belonging, spiritual growth, global healing, etc. - come to the show notes at turningseason.com/episode44 and find my bulleted list of teachers and terms that we mention in this conversation.You're invited to… Take Heart: Embodying the Great Turning | A 10-week course facilitated by Leilani Navar and Erin Geesaman Rabke, with special guests Cynthia Jurs, Francis Weller, Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, and Lydia Violet HarutoonianThis series is for you if you're looking for helpful teachings and tools, a place for beauty and for grief, and a kind community. We'll be looking to Joanna Macy's teachings about the "Five Vows of the Great Turning" to help us orient, navigate, and stay heartened in these times, giving our lives to the Great Turning while also living in the Great Unraveling. We're so excited about it and we'd love for you to check it out if you're curious.More about Cynthia Jurs:Cynthia Jurs has immersed herself deeply in the study and practice of Buddhism for over three decades, annually spending time in solitary retreat and receiving teachings from many great masters. In 1994 she was given dharma transmission from her root teacher, Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh and became a Dharmacharya in the Order of Interbeing. In 2018 in recognition for her many years of study and practice in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition and her devotion in carrying out the Earth Treasure Vases, she was recognized as an Honorary Lama at the root temple of Kushok Mangden Rinpoche, Tolu Tharling Gompa, in Nepal. Cynthia says that she holds these titles and dharma affiliations lightly. She shares that her true source of refuge and spiritual inspiration is Mother Earth; Gaia. Inspired by her thirty years of pilgrimage into diverse communities and ecosystems, today Cynthia is forging a new path of dharma, connected to the Earth, in service to Gaia, deeply rooted in the feminine, honoring indigenous traditions, and teaching an embodied, engaged, sacred activism through meditation and prayer, ceremony and ritual, pilgrimage and council.About Turning Season Podcast:Serving up heartening doses of Active Hope in this Great Turning toward life-honoring, life-sustaining ways of being human. This is a series of deep conversations with people who are rising to their own unique roles in this worldwide shift. This show is for every one of you who's aware of our multiple crises, feels your love for life on earth, and is finding your way to participate in cultivating ways of life we can believe in, making a life honoring present, even in the face of an uncertain future.

How does creativity help us meet a difficult time? In this episode, co-hosts Christie Aschwanden and Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer talk about ways that creative practice can nourish us, how it can help us envision a way forward, how it helps us to widen the lens and see beyond the moment, how it helps us embrace paradox, opens us to connection, and more. We hear from previous guests poet Jack Ridl and astrologer/filmmaker/novelist/musician Holiday Mathis, plus from listeners in our Facebook group, too, This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit emergingform.substack.com/subscribe

We hit our first technical interruption in over seven years this week, when an operating-system update froze Lizzie's computer. We'll be back on track next week, but in the meantime here's a repeat of our most popular episode from back in 2021, which draws on the work of our cherished friend Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer. We're conditioned to think of ourselves and other people as in need of fixing, and it makes it so difficult for us to open to one another's beauty and mystery. So what if we could cultivate eyes and hearts of wonder at the luminescent half-moon of one another's presence, and receive one another as rivers do as they give their power and beauty to one another? Hosted, as always, by Lizzie Winn and Justin Wise of Thirdspace. Join Our Weekly Mailing: www.turningtowards.life/subscribe Support Us: www.buymeacoffee.com/turningtowardslife Turning Towards Life, a week-by-week conversation inviting us deeply into our lives, is a live 30 minute conversation hosted by Justin Wise and Lizzie Winn of Thirdspace.  Find us on FaceBook to watch live and join in the lively conversation on this episode. You can find videos of every episode, and more about the project on the Turning Towards Life website, and you can also watch and listen on Instagram, YouTube, and as a podcast on Apple, Google, Amazon Music and Spotify. Here's our source for this week: Love Though I am undeniably broken, I come to you with no need to be fixed. I come to you the way one river Meets another river - not joining Out of thirst, but because there is so much power And beauty in giving oneself To another, in moving Through the world together. I come to you the way the half moon Comes into the yard - I could be more Whole, but in the meantime, I will bring you everything I have. Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer ahundredfallingveils.com Photo by nousnou iwasaki on Unsplash

Welcome to Twice 5 Miles Radio. I'm your host, James Navé. This week, we're joined for a fourth time by poet, teacher, and podcaster Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, a devoted practitioner of daily poetry for nearly two decades. Together, we explore what it means to Rosemerry to “live poetry.” She speaks to the soul-deepening practice of poetry as a way of experiencing life in its fullness—a delicate dance of grief, joy, curiosity, and acceptance. We discuss her philosophy on self-compassion, how poetry tunes us into the subtleties of our bodies, and why even moments of struggle or uncertainty can be creative openings. For Rosemerry, the poetic journey is one of constant exploration, where even the smallest moments offer potential. “What if we treated our bodies like our poetry?” she asks, drawing an illuminating parallel between artistic and personal growth. This episode also touches on the resilience of creativity—how poetry can serve as both a witness and a response to life's most significant challenges, including Rosemary's journey through profound loss. Through poetry, she reveals the layers of emotion we all carry and how the written word can connect us to the shared experience of being human. Join us as we journey through Rosemarie's philosophy and poetry's remarkable capacity to connect, comfort, and awaken us to the beauty of everyday moments.

(Aloka Earth Room) Short Reflection & Guided Meditation | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene II | Online Wednesday-Mornings. Poem by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, 2024.

(Aloka Earth Room) Short Reflection & Guided Meditation | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene II | Online Wednesday-Mornings. Poem by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, 2024.

CLICK HERE to send me a text, I'd love to hear what you thought about this episode! Leave your name in the text so I know who it's from! This week - a Digest from the other side of the election. It's been a week. I'll share the Milwaukee women who are inspiring me in the aftermath of the election, and two poems by a new favorite, Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer. Short and (bitter)sweet this week. But we have to get up and keep moving forward. Venice William's poem in full: You are awakening to the same country you fell asleep to.The very same country.Pull yourself together.And, when you see me, do not ask me"What do we do now?How do we get through the next four years?"Some of my Ancestors dealt with at least 400 years of this under worse conditions.Continue to do the good work.Continue to build bridges not walls.Continue to lead with compassion.Continue the demanding work of liberation for all.Continue to dismantle broken systems, large and small.Continue to set the best example for the children.Continue to be a vessel of nourishing joy.Continue right where you are.Right where you live into your days.Do so in the name of The Creator who expects nothing less from each of us.And if you are not "continuing" ALL of the above, in community, partnership, collaboration?What is it you have been doing?What is it you are waiting for?And if you want to hear more about Venice Williams, go back and listen to the episode from Season 2 when Shelly and I talked with Venice about where she got her start and what inspires her to keep going. A timeless conversation about dreaming in Milwaukee. Support the show

Emmy and Natalia read some poetry and Scripture and blessings to help us all through this chaotic and overwhelming and anxious time. Because we all need it, whenever we need it.    Support the show and what we do here: www.patreon.com/cafeteriachristian   Resources from today's episode: “Blessing in the Chaos” from The Cure for Sorrow - by Jan Richardson First Nations Version: https://firstnationsversion.com/book/first-nations-version/  Romans 8: 31-39 Lamentations 3: 19-30, 49-57 Luke 6, Matthew 5  John 18:33-38 Book of Common Prayer  Traditional Collect for the Nation Contemporary Collect for Social Justice excerpt from Madeleine L'Engle from Rhythm of Prayer - by Sarah Bessey  “For the Nation” from Ordinary Blessings, by Meta Herrick Carlson “For Feeling It All”, from Blessings for the Lives We Actually Have, by Kate Bowler  How to Love the World, by James Crews  Hope, by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer   

- Imogene Pass Closure Continues - K-O-O-K nears completion - Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer unfolds into grief and praise

Hoy practicamos una relajación sanadora para cuerpo y mente. (Apta para conciliar el sueño.) Primero les comparto unos conmovedores poemas de Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer. Después hacemos un corto ejercicio de respiración alterna y pasamos a la sanadora meditación guiada. Hoy hubo una quietud especial, ojalá disfruten la sesión. Sesión grabada en vivo en Espacio Silencio : únete aquí: https://www.ilanaospina.com/ https://www.instagram.com/ilana_coachmindfulness/

Written in the key of grief and the melody of praise, Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer sits down with Raghu to discuss her newest poetry book, The Unfolding.Enjoy your own copy of The Unfolding to read Rosemerry's heart-opening poems! Purchase the book HEREThis week, tune into Rosemerry and Raghu's conversation on: The loss of Rosemerry's son and fatherLiving through seasons of extreme griefUnderstanding the gift of a poemOppositional feelings experienced at the same time (pain + joy, etc.)Recognizing how desperately we need eachotherThe Grand Quilt, The Medicine of Surrender, and more poems written and read by RosemerryBrave prayers and the things that open us / help us growInspiration from Gregory Orr and Leonard CohenHow grief strips us naked and makes us vulnerableRaghu sends us off with a beautiful Kabir poem from the book Painting from the Palette of LoveAbout Rossemerry Trommer:Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer is an American poet associated with Colorado. She was Poet Laureate of San Miguel County, Colorado from 2006–2010, and was named Poet Laureate of Colorado's Western Slope by the Telluride Institute from 2015–2017. Most recently, Rosemerry published The Unfolding, a book of poetry exploring grief. Rosemerry was featured on TEDxTalks to discuss the art of changing metaphors and created an album of poetry called Dark Praise with Steve Law. Check out Rosemerry's website, Wordwoman, and her daily poetry blog, A Hundred Falling Veils. You can also join Rosemerry in an immersive daily experience of poetry and reflection on the Ritual app.“So many people reached out to help me… they'd say, ‘What can we do?' And I'd just say, ‘Open me. Help me stay open. Please, help me stay open.'” – Rosemerry TrommerSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

I ran across acclaimed poet, Rosemerry Trommer, several years ago in a volume where she shares about the loss of her son, Finn, who took his life at age 16. I had never read anything on grieving that touched me so deeply, that held so much wisdom, such a deep affirmation of love. I went on to read her collection All the Honey, and now her new one, The Unfolding. These books are filled with Post-its: I didn't realize how much I needed Rosemerry's words to remind me of what most matters. In our interview we talk about the key themes in her poems: grief, love, opening to what's difficult and what's beautiful… saying yes to life.

This week, Christie interviews Rosemerry about her new book, The Unfolding, out on October 1st. Do her a big favor and pre-order it now at this link. Rosemerry explains how the poems came together, how she structured the book and why the cover is pink. It's a wonderful conversation we know you'll love. Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer is a poet, teacher, speaker and writing facilitator. Her daily audio series, The Poetic Path, is on the Ritual app. Her poems have appeared on A Prairie Home Companion, PBS News Hour, O Magazine, American Life in Poetry, and Carnegie Hall stage. Her most recent poetry collections are All the Honey (Samara Press, 2023) and The Unfolding (Wildhouse Publishing, October 2024). In January, 2024, she became the first poet laureate for Evermore, helping others explore grief, bereavement, wonder and love through poetry. One-word mantra: Adjust. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit emergingform.substack.com/subscribe

There may be no greater pain in life than that of losing a child; the gaping hole felt when a young life is abruptly cut short, leaving parents to deal with a void that can be difficult to comprehend, and a journey to make sense of the heartache that follows. For poet Rosemerry Wahtula Trommer, the pain is palpable and the grief — the kind of grief only a mother can know — remains unwavering . Tragically, her son Finn took his own life just before reaching his 17th birthday. In the wake of this unimaginable tragedy, Trommer found herself irrevocably changed; it was through the power of words and poetry that she began to find solace amid her sorrow. Despite the lasting  grief in her heart, Trommer is also profoundly grateful to her son. “He my teacher.  How much that boy taught me all the things I didn't want to know. I never wanted to learn that things couldn't be fixed. I never wanted to learn that I couldn't be perfect, that I couldn't make the world the way I wanted it. And he taught me again and again and again, how to say yes to the world as it is.”  Reflecting on how she now sees the world, Trommer is struck by  “the sweetness and the bitterness, the joy and the grief, the love and the loss and how, as humans, this is what we're asked to meet over and over and over.”   Grief, Trommer says, demonstrates a powerful paradox. It’s central to who we are as humans. It’s “ever mysterious and ever changing and so deeply sorrowful and so profoundly loving,” at the same time.   “Maybe this is the thing that's most exciting for me right now – is this sense of not believing anymore that we're supposed to be happy. That in fact, some of the most profound, wonderful life-affirming, moments have been so difficult.”   “Meeting Your Death” Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer  Because there are no clear instructions,I follow what rises up in me to do.I fall deeper into love with you.I look at old pictures.I don’t look at old pictures.I talk about you. I say nothing.I walk. I sit. I lie in the grassand let the earth hold me.I lie on the sidewalk, dissolveinto sky. I cry. I don’t cry.I ask the world to help me stay open.I ask again, please, let me feel it all.I fall deeper in love with the peoplestill living. I fall deeper in lovewith the world that is left—this world with its springand its war and its mornings,this world with its fruitsthat ripen and rot and reseed,this world that insistswe keep our eyes wide,this world that openswhen our eyes are closed.Because there are no clear instructions,I learn to turn toward the love that is here,though sometimes what is here is what’s not.There are infinite ways to do this right.That is the only way. Delve deeper into life, philosophy, and what makes us human by joining the Life Examined discussion group on Facebook.

Moonshine Family Traveling Medicine Show featuring Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer with Steve Law and special guest Craig Childs will be Saturday May 18th at 8:30 pm.

This Sunday, First Universalist joyfully celebrates New Member Sunday, a testament to our community's growth and resilience. Worship Leaders will guide us through a reflective conversation on the essence of openness. They invite us to examine how vulnerability, grace, and kindness are more than spiritual practices—they are vital for deepening our communal bonds. This service challenges us to dismantle the barriers that often lead to isolation, making every interaction a profound connection. As we celebrate this enriching occasion, reflect on your journey: What is your next step toward deeper engagement in our community? Join us for a transformative experience. Worship Leaders: Dr. Glen Thomas Rideout, Meleah Houseknecht, Rev. Jen Crow, Liz Farmer, Matt Keller Opening Hymn- Building Bridges (:27) Call to Worship and Words of Welcome (4:37) Wisdom Story (10:39) Singing Together- Come and Go With Me (20:14) New Member Welcome Ritual (21:41) Prayers and Cycle of Life (28:50) Practice of Giving and Receiving (37:17) Offertory- If You're Out There by John Legend (43:07) Reading- Safety Net by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer (46:06) Anthem- Reach Out and Touch (Somebody's Hand) by Diana Ross (47:18) Message- A Community of Practice (49:35) Closing Song- Love Will Guide Us (1:08:06) Benediction (1:10:00)

How do we take up our right size in the world? Not in some fixed, rigid way but as a responsive way of engaging with what is called for in each situation and context? When we see that in some way ‘too big' and ‘too small' are both ways we try to control situations, maybe we can open to the emergence of something more fluid, more adaptive, and more sensitive in us. Something that asks of us to be of service to life, and responds accordingly. Hosted, as always, by Lizzie Winn and Justin Wise of Thirdspace. Join Our Weekly Mailing: www.turningtowards.life/subscribe Support Us: www.buymeacoffee.com/turningtowardslife Turning Towards Life, a week-by-week conversation inviting us deeply into our lives, is a live 30 minute conversation hosted by Justin Wise and Lizzie Winn of Thirdspace.  Find us on FaceBook to watch live and join in the lively conversation on this episode. You can find videos of every episode, and more about the project on the Turning Towards Life website, and you can also watch and listen on Instagram, YouTube, and as a podcast on Apple, Google, Amazon Music and Spotify. Here's our source for this week: Right-Sized A response to Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer's Big What if this the year to learn to be right-sized? I learned on the playground to  Flinch from arrogance. ‘Please – don't leave me.  I promise not to get Too Big.' But the cost, I've learned, is dear.  Trading potential for false modesty,  Dampening power with every apology,  Neglecting my impeccable edges  With every hedge. But then I remember  What the rabbis knew. They stretched wide a red silk thread.  At one end: Arrogance.  At the other: Not humility – but  Playing Too Small. They knew playing small was just arrogance by a different name.  Placing comfort above contribution.  Our gifts withdrawn from the world,  For the price of fitting in. ‘What if holding back is stealing?' So in the middle, they placed a pair of right-sized shoes.  Yours.  Mine.  The right-sizing that awaits us all. What, I wonder, will it take for you to grow into your right size  The one that seems Impossibly large, and  Obnoxiously loud? Clownish as these shoes seem now, prone to stumbling,  At first you'll feel the fool.  Some People will have Things To Say.  Some may even walk away.  (In this modesty-mad world, they're yet to clock  that claiming your shoes  does nothing to keep them from theirs.) But every now and then you wake up to the truth.  That it's the world that's wrong - not you.  These too-small shoes will no longer do. So take your credit where it's due.  And when no-one offers it – give yourself a spoon daily. Take your space  Trading in the apologies for gratitude. Minimise your emotions no more –  They too deserve to expand to the full. Fill your circle with champions  And learn to see yourself with the wonder of their eyes. And when you hit your stride, and weather whatever,  Give up the surprise. When those shoes once vast grow snug,  Be sure to celebrate well.  Acknowledge yourself, and your people, and the view. Until another pair of shoes calls to you  Between arrogance and avoidance  On that red silk string… You Are Needed.  And this is no time, no world,  For stealing.  Debbie Danon, Jan 2023 www.debbiedanon.com Photo by Michael Wright on Unsplash

Kristy Elesko (she/her) wants you to have a great massage. A massage that feels safe, empowered, and like your body's needs are being met with certainty and accommodation as needed. So, she's sharing her brilliant tips for how to find a massage therapist who works with all bodies, key questions to ask the clinic receptionist, and how to advocate for your body's needs. Kristy Elesko is a massage therapist and massage therapy educator in Victoria BC (lands of the Songhees, Esquimalt and W̱SÁNEĆ peoples). She has a diverse practice where she treats health care workers, new parents, infants and patients of every size. A list of fat friendly/weight neutral providers.Please connect with Kristy on her website and Instagram. This episode's poem is by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer and is called “For When People Ask.”You can connect with Fat Joy on the website, Instagram, Fat Joy newsletter, and YouTube (full video episodes here!). Want to share some fattie love? Please rate this podcast and give it a joyful review. Our thanks to Chris Jones and AR Media for keeping this podcast looking and sounding joyful.

Air Date - 08 January 2024Journey into Endarkenment: A Conversation with Rosemerry Wahtola TrommerEmbrace the beauty of the dark and discover the transformative power of endarkenment in our upcoming Voice Rising Show! Join Voice Visionary Kara Johnstad in conversation with American poet Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, as they explore the profound depths of creativity, passion, and revelation through Rosemerry's new spoken-word album, “Dark Praise.” In a culture that often celebrates only the light, Rosemerry's journey to embrace darkness has brought forth a rich tapestry of wisdom that promises to inspire your own creative journey.Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, known for her lyrical poetry and unique storytelling, has been recognized for her exceptional contributions to the world of poetry. Join us as we delve into the significance of endarkenment alongside enlightenment and how embracing the dark can open doors to essential self-discovery and connection. Learn how writing about our fears can lead to profound revelations and how the collaboration between poetry and music enhances the power of spoken word.Don't miss this opportunity to explore poetry as an oral and aural art form and gain insights into Rosemerry's extraordinary creative journey. Mark your calendars for an illuminating conversation that celebrates the transformative power of the dark. Stay tuned for this enlightening episode on the Voice Rising Show.Visit Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer at https://www.wordwoman.com/#RosemerryWahtolaTrommer #VoiceRising #KaraJohnstad #Music #Interviews #VoiceTo get in touch with Kara, go to http://www.karajohnstad.com/Visit the Voice Rising show page https://omtimes.com/iom/shows/voice-rising/Subscribe to our Newsletter https://omtimes.com/subscribe-omtimes-magazine/Connect with OMTimes on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/Omtimes.Magazine/ and OMTimes Radio https://www.facebook.com/ConsciousRadiowebtv.OMTimes/Twitter: https://twitter.com/OmTimes/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/omtimes/Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/2798417/Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/omtimes/

I'm privileged to be a spiritual director. Each time I begin a session, I use a quote or poem or prayer.  As I share one of these with you, see what might catch your attention. Maybe there's something here for you today. Today's offering is titled Self Compassion by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer. The post Poem/prayer 18 – Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer appeared first on Anita Lustrea.

Tamara Walcott (she/her) knew she ‘wasn't born big for nothing.' In only four years, she went from not working out at all to breaking two(!!!) Guinness World Records (check out the video here) and becoming the strongest woman in the world. Tamara shares what it was like growing up fat, how it felt walking into the gym for the first time, and the way she uses her personal growth journey to better support her kids. Plus, her favourite affirmations and biggest dreams!Tamara Walcott is a multi world-record holding powerlifter, mompreneur, and speaker hailing from the small island of St. Croix. Tamara's story of mental reset, perseverance, and triumph is an inspiration. Tamara Walcott has claimed the title for the heaviest raw deadlift and most weight moved in the world by a woman after deadlifting 636 in September 2021, moving 1620 pounds in July 2022 and breaking her record again on the Strongwoman stage in March 2023 by lifting 651 pounds. She has been featured on the Ellen DeGeneres Show, Oprah Magazine, ESPNW, Sports Illustrated, Barbend, and more.Please connect with Tamara through her website and Instagram.This episode's poem is called “Belonging” by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer.After recording the interview, Sophia asks each guest 10 unexpected, unrehearsed questions designed to go even deeper. Check it out by subscribing through Apple Podcast Subscriptions or Patreon for as little as $2.You can connect with Fat Joy on our website, Instagram, and YouTube (full video episodes here!). Want to share the fat love? Please rate this podcast and give it a joyful review. Our thanks to Chris Jones and AR Media for keeping this podcast looking and sounding joyful.

This week Wes and Todd sit down with Fine Art Photographer, Marisa S. White. Marissa discusses pancakes, digital art, AI, art festival categories, photomontage, portfolio reviews, process, technology, the compulsion to create, the encouragement she received in her youth from her father, the support of her husband, Surrealism, Magritte, clouds, Carl Sagan, meditation, spirituality, sizes of work, pricing, editions, presentation, Namibia, art festivals, printing, workflow, vulnerability, fear, goals, gallery representation, business tips, social media, art scammers, commissions, Art Store Fronts, PX3, contests & awards, exhibitions, and boldness in photography.Join us for an in-depth conversation with Marisa S. White. Check out Marisa's work at her website www.marisaswhite.com Follow Marisa S. White on social media:Instagram - www.instagram.com/marisa_whitesparks/@marisa_whitesparks Catch Marisa's work in person at these upcoming exhibitions and events; G44 Gallery – www.g44gallery.com“Above|Below”October 6th thru the month of OctoberOpening Reception – Friday, October 6th, 5-9pm Surface Gallery – www.surfacegallerycos.comThe Space Between, A Photography ShowGroup ExhibitionThe Month of October True North Art Gallery – www.truenorthartgallery.com“Dark Praise”Special Event – October 26th, 2023Collaboration with Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer and Steve Law.

“Grief cracks you open. It makes us vulnerable… I feel vulnerable.”  ~ Christie Aschwanden “A creative practice prepared me for grief.” ~ Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer This month, we're offering you a feed swap. Emerging Form, co-hosted by poet Rosemmery Wahtola Trommer and journalist Christie Aschwanden, is a podcast about creative process. These two friends cover everything from the business of creativity, to cultivating openness and pleasure, to meeting failure as part of the process. Whether they're talking between themselves or inviting other creatives to share some of their journey,  their conversations are always encouraging and insightful. In this episode from Emerging Form that we're sharing with you, Rosemerry and Christie sit down with each other mere weeks after Rosemerry's son, Finn, has died and Christie's father has suffered a stroke. They explore how profound loss has impacted their relationship to creativity, what they're noticing in their impulses to write or not write and how their tender, cracked open hearts are taking in what each moment has to offer them. To find out more about this episode, listen to the episodes referenced, and subscribe to the newsletter, visit the show notes. Want more time with us? Join our Patreon.

The glow of a golden light of compassion surrounds you in this guided meditation led by Julie Potiker. She completes the meditation with the poem, "How It Might Continue", by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer.How It Might ContinueWherever we go, the chance for joy,whole orchards of amazement -one more reason to always travelwith our pockets full of exclamation marks,so we might scatter them for otherslike apple seeds.Some will dry out, some will blow away,but some will take rootand grow exuberant grovesfilled with long thin fruitsthat resemble one hand clapping -so much enthusiasm as they flutter back and forththat although nothing's heardand though nothing's really changed,people everywhere for years to comewill swear that the worldis ripe with applause, will filltheir own pickets with new seeds to scatter.-"How It Might Continue", by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, from "How to Love the World, Poems of Gratitude and Hope", edited by James Crews.Find out more about using mindfulness in everyday life through Julie's books, "SNAP: From Calm to Chaos", and "Life Falls Apart, But You Don't have To: Mindful Methods for Staying Calm in the Midst of Chaos". Both are available on Amazon.com.Follow Julie on YouTube and Facebook at Mindful Methods for Life.comThis podcast is available on iTunes, iHeart, Blubrry and everywhere you listen to podcasts.

I'm Anita Lustrea and I'm privileged to be a spiritual director. Each time I begin a session, I use a quote or poem or prayer.  As I share one of these with you, see what might catch your attention. Maybe there's something here for you today. The post Poem/Prayer 8 – Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer appeared first on Anita Lustrea.

As the poet Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer teaches us, even as the whole world can seem to be falling, we have a choice whether to contribute to isolation and fear or to a vast net of generosity and kindness in which we hold one another. Perhaps when we feel most afraid and most isolated, it's the time to ask ourselves the other side of the question too - are we willing to receive and be open to the support that's there? Because our turning away from receiving is also our turning away from giving. This week's Turning Towards Life is hosted, as always, by Lizzie Winn and Justin Wise of Thirdspace. Turning Towards Life, a week-by-week conversation inviting us deeply into our lives, is a live 30 minute conversation hosted by Justin Wise and Lizzie Winn of Thirdspace.  Find us on FaceBook to watch live and join in the lively conversation on this episode. You can find videos of every episode, and more about the project on the Turning Towards Life website, and you can also watch and listen on Instagram, YouTube, and as a podcast on Apple, Google, Amazon Music and Spotify. Here's our source for this week: Here's our source for this week: Safety Net This morning I woke thinking of all the people I love and all the people they love and how big the net of lovers. It felt so clear, all those invisible ties interwoven like silken threads strong enough to make a mesh that for thousands of years has been woven and rewoven to catch us all. Sometimes we go on as if we forget about it. Believing only in the fall. But the net is just as real. Every day, with every small kindness, with every generous act, we strengthen it. Notice, even now, how as the whole world seems to be falling, it is there for us as we walk the day's tightrope, how every tie matters. By Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer from her newest book ‘All the Honey'

This is a short podcast featuring a poem or prayer. I'm privileged to be a spiritual director. Each time I begin a session, I use a quote or poem or prayer.  As I share one of these with you, see what might catch your attention. Maybe there's something here for... The post Poem/Prayer 4 – Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer appeared first on Anita Lustrea.

in which Ann Marie Brokmeier, Tyler Mendelsohn, and i talk grief, poetry, and their intersections! where to find Ann Marie: instagram - @annmariebrok where to find Tyler: website - https://tylerkmendelsohn.com/ instagram - @tyler_k_m other things referenced: Ada Limón - https://www.adalimon.net/ Ada Limón Bomb Magazine interview - https://bombmagazine.org/articles/ada-lim%C3%B3n/#:~:text=AL%20I%20think%20poetry%20is,it%20out%20into%20the%20sky After the Fire by Ada Limón - https://scalar.fas.harvard.edu/resources-for-loss/after-the-fire-by-ada-limn The Uses of Sorrow by Mary Oliver - https://www.reddit.com/r/Poetry/comments/zn67zr/the_uses_of_sorrow_mary_oliver_poem/ The Art of Losing, edited by Kevin Young - https://kevinyoungpoetry.com/the-art-of-losing.html Grief by Stephen Dobyns - https://www.poemist.com/stephen-dobyns/grief Landscape with the Fall of Icarus by William Carlos Williams - https://poets.org/poem/landscape-fall-icarus Final Notations by Adrienne Rich - https://genius.com/Adrienne-rich-final-notations-annotated Watching My Friend Pretend Her Heart Is Not Breaking by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer - https://braidedway.org/watching-my-friend-pretend-her-heart-isnt-breaking/ Life After Death: IV by Laura Gilpin - https://www.reddit.com/r/Poetry/comments/xmlp33/poem_life_after_death_by_laura_gilpin/ What's Your Grief - https://whatsyourgrief.com/ other things i meant to reference: Death Tractates by Brenda Hillman - https://www.weslpress.org/9780819512024/death-tractates/

Esther is joined by award-winning poet Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer to discuss her new book, All the Honey, and her upcoming performance and workshop in Loveland.  The Loveland Poet Laureate Program and Columbine Poets: Northern Chapter will host Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer for a Friday evening performance (May 12th) at the Rialto Theater and a Saturday morning workshop (May 13th) in Rialto's Devereaux Room. Both events are fundraisers. For more information: Performance, May 12th 7:00pm Workshop, May 13th 9:30am To Follow Rosemerry: All the Honey by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer Daily Poetry Blog  The Poetic Path on the Ritual App Poetry of Presence and Companion Guides

April is National Poetry Month and we put together this special episode to pay tribute to the late poet, Mary Oliver.  Special guests James Crews, Danusha Lameris, Ross Gay, Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, and Ginny Gay will read one of their favorite Mary Oliver poems and share why the poem is meaningful to them.  Whether you are a fan of Mary Oliver's work or are just learning about her for the first time, we hope you'll be inspired by some of the beautiful poetry in this episode!   For more on this episode, click here!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In This Episode, You'll Learn: Learning to not resist the pain and grief of a terrible loss to find healing What it means to trust in life, even when the worst thing comes true How poetry embraces life's greatest paradoxes Asking the question “is this the path of love?” Using the word “Hello” as a way to greet what's going on within her How to embrace the unknown and cultivate trust during life's unpredictable moments Learning to boost personal growth and mindfulness with the help of powerful mantras How to can unlock potential for inner change by embracing curiosity and openness Ways to leverage life's triggers as opportunities for self-discovery and introspection To Learn More, click hereSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

“Leaning into love is leaning into grief,” — Sarah Davis  In this week's episode, co-hosts Naila and Sarah muse on our conversation with poet Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer and all she gifted us with her openness and generosity. Inspired by how she's being guided by her word of the year — “hello” — we share our own words for 2023. We also talk about our willingness, and protectiveness, when it  comes to publicly inviting others into our own grief journeys. As we continue to encourage listening to these conversations for threads of our own stories and truths, we dive into the questions our time with Rosemerry sparked in us. This led to some truly candid moments about caregiving, processing grief, reconciling relationships after death and supporting grievers. We hope you'll reflect along with us. Visit Breathing Wind's Instagram to share what these questions inspire in you. To find out more about this episode, other resources mentioned, and subscribe to the newsletter, visit the show notes. Want more time with us? Join our Patreon.  

“I really trust life itself to rise up and help me meet the things that I cannot control. I trust love to show up and help me meet the things that I cannot control.” ~ Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer In this week's episode, Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer cries and laughs her way through an expansive and nourishing conversation about grief, creativity and love. We talk with her about poetry as a practice for meeting each moment, her unfolding journey through devastating loss and where those experiences of creativity and grief intersect. She also shares how she's been carried by an immensity of love since the death of her son Finn, in the same year that her father died, and how grief has deepened her trust in that love while inviting her, over and over again, to say yes to the world.  To find out more about this episode, other resources mentioned, and subscribe to the newsletter, visit the show notes. Want more time with us? Join our Patreon.  

Word Woman, Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, returns with Raghu to dive deep into poetry, spirituality, silence, grief, love, trust, and listening. Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer lives in Southwest Colorado with her family, served as the third Colorado Western Slope Poet Laureate (2015-2017) and was a finalist for Colorado Poet Laureate (2019). Her poetry has appeared in O Magazine, on A Prairie Home Companion and PBS New Hour, in Ted Kooser's American Life in Poetry, in back alleys and on river rocks. Rosemerry is the co-host of Emerging Form, a podcast on creative process; and teaches and performs poetry for addiction recovery programs, hospice, mindfulness retreats, women's retreats, teachers and more. For more info, poetry books, and daily poetry offerings please visit, WordWoman.com"To be a wide open listener, that's the real invitation of any poem. People say they need to find their voice; actually we need to be wide open listeners. That's what's really being asked of us. How widely can you listen? How openly can you listen?" – Rosemerry Wahtola TrommerSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Image: Rosemerry and her daughter definitely succeeded in making a delicious chocolate beet birthday cake. What is success? How have your ideas about success changed over time? Who is someone you think of when you think of a successful person in your field? How has their success made an impact on you? What risks have you taken for success? In this conversation, co-hosts Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer and Christie Aschwanden explore the importance of role models, external vs. internal markers for success, and what happens when you meet your goal posts–how does that change your ideas about success? Links: Christie's LWON essay about people who make their beds (Rosemerry) and those who don't (Christie)Judyth Hill on Emerging FormTim Green on Emerging FormRosemerry's first poem in Rattle.comRosemerry's Poetic Role Model Ellen Bass This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit emergingform.substack.com/subscribe

Interview with friend Will O'Brien on the politics of the Gospel of Luke. Will discusses how to read the gospel with a communal lens instead of an individual lens and answers questions such as: Do we have to be voluntarily poor? What is Sabbath economics? How to engage with Christian Nationalists? Also in this episode, the pastors discuss some talk back about what to do with the abuser in our church. As always, Spiritual Show and Tell to end the episode: dying wisteria, Watching My Friend Pretend Her Heart Isn't Breaking by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, and Untamed by Glennon Doyle. //Notes// -Interview with Will O'Brien- Will O'Brien: willobrien59@gmail.com Alternative Seminary: alternativeseminary.net The Cross and the Lynching Tree by James H. Cone: https://www.amazon.com/Cross-Lynching-Tree-James-Cone/dp/1626980055/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=: Bartimaeus Institute: https://www.bcm-net.org/study/bartimaeus-institute Revolutionary Mercy: How Gospel forgiveness challenges our social order: https://www.americamagazine.org/issue/revolutionary-mercy Bread and Justice: Lessons in Prayer: https://www.pulpit.org/bread-and-justice-lessons-in-prayer/ - Spiritual Show and Tell - Power, Violence, and Binding and Loosing in Matthew 18:15-20, https://earthandaltarmag.com/posts/adgq2btuel0vhvly4kfulyetha8404 Watching My Friend Pretend Her Heart Isn't Breaking by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer: https://twitter.com/nktgill/status/1547572269995569152?s=20&t=OSC0Xy2zD4u5G_m7zpsCvQ Untamed by Glennon Doyle: https://untamedbook.com/ //About this Podcast// Resist and Restore is a podcast by Circle of Hope. We're extending the table of our dialogue! Tune in bi-weekly as the Circle of Hope pastors—Rachel, Julie, and Jonny—sit down to dialogue about faith, God, Jesus, the spiritual life, and everything in between. Available on Spotify, iTunes/Apple Music, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, and more. //Contact Us// Website: https://circleofhope.church Email: ResistandRestorePodcast@circleofhope.net IG/TW: @circleofhopenet YouTube: https://youtube.com/circleofhope FB: https://fb.me/CircleofHopePhillyRegion Help keep the show running! Contribute at: https://circleofhope.church/share

In this episode of the Poetry Edition of the Reformed Journal Podcast, Rose Postma interviews Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer about her poem "Bioluminescence." Rosemerry has been publishing her poetry daily on her website A Hundred Falling Veils for the last 10+ years, and is a co-host of the podcast Emerging Form. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/reformed-journal/message

Meditation: Path of Love - This heart practice opens with the intention to bring a kind presence to whatever arises. After arriving with a body scan, we are guided to meet all experience with an open tender awareness. The practice ends with a poem by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer called “Is this the Path of Love?”

(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) This heart practice opens with the intention to bring a kind presence to whatever arises. After arriving with a body scan, we are guided to meet all experience with an open tender awareness. The practice ends with a poem by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer called “Is this the Path of Love?”

(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) This heart practice opens with the intention to bring a kind presence to whatever arises. After arriving with a body scan, we are guided to meet all experience with an open tender awareness. The practice ends with a poem by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer called “Is this the Path of Love?”

Thank You by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer It's not as if the door can decide: Open. Closed. Locked. Unhinged. The door is ever at the mercy of the hand on the knob, the shoulder that smashes it, the wind that abruptly slams it shut, the smile that swings it wide as noon. Long ago, I learned every moment has a door, and that those doors never open themselves. That is why, standing here, I am astonished to see, through no effort of my own, a door swings open. And how sweet the surprise when I see on the other side of the knob, your hand.

Glenn Steckler, Larry Steckler, Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer: Stories from the Age of Covid Glen Steckler grew up on Long Island, New York, and attended St. Lawrence University. After graduating he worked for his father at Gernsback Publications where they launched … Continue reading →

Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer is a poet, storyteller, and human who sees and speaks from truth. In this episode, Rosemerry shares some of the poems that have changed the way she sees the world and herself in it. She reminds us of the power of believing in our own worth and our own beauty, that we are the narrator's of our own life. Rosemerry has been writing a poem every day since 2006, and shares her advice on how to find poetry that moves you. This conversation will move you, and remind you that there's nothing to fix about who you are and how life is meeting you in this moment.

Blake Spalding is co-owner and chef at Hell's Backbone Grill at the edge of Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument. Blake is more than an advocate for the land--she is in deep relationship with the spirit and the body of the land. As a brilliantly sensitive human, Blake talks about how ritual and poetry give her courage to face the suffering and pain we are all experiencing in the shadow of patriarchy, white supremacy, and other systems that keep us sick. Her resiliency as she lives a life of activism and advocacy is proof of the radical courage of her heart. Her work is to feed people, and Blake's hearth is always open to seen and unseen friends and allies. In this episode, Blake reads the poems of Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer and Denise Levertov.

Poet, Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, joins Raghu to discuss poetry as a spiritual path, meeting the blank page with trust, and the joyful daily practice of giving it away.Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer lives in Southwest Colorado with her husband and two children, served as the third Colorado Western Slope Poet Laureate (2015-2017) and was a finalist for Colorado Poet Laureate (2019). Her poetry has appeared in O Magazine, on A Prairie Home Companion and PBS New Hour, in Ted Kooser’s American Life in Poetry, in back alleys and on river rocks. Rosemerry is the co-host of Emerging Form, a podcast on creative process; and teaches and performs poetry for addiction recovery programs, hospice, mindfulness retreats, women’s retreats, teachers and more. For more info, poetry books, and daily poetry offerings please visit, WordWoman.com

What does it take to not just say 'yes' to our lives and to one another, but to bring our beauty, dignity, creativity and imagination in response? It's a different path to take from 'turning away', and equally different from 'passive acceptance'. Being a human affords us this possibility - that when we encounter fear, shame, wonder, injustice, confusion, or hope, we have the chance to muster a response that brings something new into the world. This episode of Turning Towards Life is a conversation about what it is to hold what we would rather not hold, and to answer it with beauty, hosted as always by Lizzie Winn and Justin Wise of Thirdspace. This is Turning Towards Life, a weekly live 30 minute conversation hosted by Thirdspace (http://www.wearethirdspace.org/) in which Justin Wise and Lizzie Winn dive deep into big questions of human living. Find us on FaceBook (https://www.facebook.com/groups/turningtowardslife/) to watch live and join in the lively conversation on this episode. You can find videos of every episode, and more about the project on the Turning Towards Life website (https://turningtowards.life/) , and you can also watch and listen on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/turningtowardslife/) , YouTube, and as a podcast on Apple, Google and Spotify. Our source this week is chosen for us by Lizzie, and is written by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer (https://ahundredfallingveils.com/2021/02/25/saying-yes-2/) . Saying Yes And could I, like this picture frame hold any image I was given? I think of the news last night—how I would rather not hold what I saw there. I think of what I learned just yesterday about myself and notice how I would rather push the image away. But could I be like this picture frame that will hold anything and in so doing honor its importance? Honor everything, no matter how mundane, no matter how frightening, as something worth knowing, something essential to what it means to be alive, a soup can, perhaps, a petunia, or a scream. How easily the frame says yes to the world, takes it in, anything, with no judgement, and offers it whatever beauty it has. Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer (https://ahundredfallingveils.com/2021/02/25/saying-yes-2/) Photo by pine watt (https://unsplash.com/@pinewatt?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText) on Unsplash (https://unsplash.com/s/visual/991b65ca-5a9c-4aea-ab10-60e21afaa749?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText)

For Auld Lang Syne         —Rosemerry Wahtola TrommerWe’ll drink a cup of kindness yet,says the song, and I would give youthe cup, friend, would fill itwith whiskey or water or whateverwould best meet your thirst.I fill it with the terrifying beautyof tonight’s bonfire—giant licksof red and swirls of blue that consumewhat is dead and melt the iceand give warmth to what is here.I fill it with moonrise and snow crystaland the silver river song beneath the ice.With the boom of fireworks and with laughterthat persists through tears. WithLilac Wine and Over the Rainbow and Fever.I toast you with all the poems we’ve yet to writeand all the tears we’ve yet to weep,I hold the cup to your lips,this chalice of kindness, we’ll drink it yet,though the days are cold, the nights so long.         —Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer ____The Next Storm ComesAnd suddenly you know: It’s time to start something new and trust the magic of beginnings.         —Meister EckhartAnd suddenly you know it’s timeto shovel the drive. For though snowstill falls, at this moment it’s onlythree inches deep and you can still push it easilywith your two wide yellow shovels.Yes, it’s time to start something new—though it doesn’t feel new, thisshoving snow from one place to another.In fact, your shoulders still feelthe efforts of yesterday.But with each push of the shovels,the path on the drive is new again. At leastit’s new for a moment, new until snowfills it in. Then it’s a different kind of new.How many beginnings are like this?They don’t feel like beginnings at all?Or we miss their newness?Or they feel new only for a momentbefore they’ve lost their freshness?There is magic in beginnings, says Meister Eckhart,and sometimes we see beginnings all around us,a new path, a new promise, a new meal.A new prayer. New snow fall. A new song.Is it too grand to call it magic, this new calendar year?Too grand to call it magic, this momentaryclearing on the drive? Too grand to be magic,this momentary clearing in my thoughts?Or is it exactly, perhaps, what magic is—something we allow ourselves to believe,despite logic, despite reason, something that bringsus great pleasure, makes us questionwhat we thought we knew, our senseof what is possible changed.—Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer_____Watching The Wizard of Oz on New Year’s Eve, I Think of a Resolution toward PeaceAs for you, my galvanized friend, you want a heart. You don’t know how lucky you are not to have one. Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable.—The Wizard to the Tin Man, The Wizard of Oz, Frank L. BaumGive us hearts that breakwhen we see how cruel the world can beand hands that extend toward others.Give us eyes that weep when we feelthe beauty of home, andlips to speak love, to apologize.Give us courage to say what must be saidand ears to hear what we’d rather not hearand eyes that will not turn the other wayfrom anyone in need.Give us brains that are wiredfor helpfulness, compassionand curiosity. Yes, let us ask for heartsthat break and break and growbigger in the breaking. Let uslove more than we think we can love.And the cup of kindness, may weever remember to drink of it,let us share it with each other.         —Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer This is a public episode. Get access to private episodes at emergingform.substack.com/subscribe

"It doesn't have to be perfect. It just has to be authentic." --Eric Gilbert, musician and friend   A virtual party hosted by Shelter in Place to celebrate the long-awaited new year! It’s an immersive audio experience, as Laura takes you around the Shelter in Place “house,” exploring different themed rooms, and meeting interviewees and listeners along the way.   Heard at the party: Sarah Ago, Anna Buchanan, Emily Chandler, Mattéa Davis, Sarah Edgell, Laura Park Figueroa, Taylor Fraser, Bart Garrett, Katie Garrett, Eric Gilbert, Elaine Grant, Anya Marchenko, Miko Marks, Muoki Musau, Edissa Nicolás-Huntsman, Katie Semro, and Andrew Ong. Seen at the party: Sean Donnelly, Christine Ferrouge, Nina LaCour, Andrew Calof, Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, Christie Aschwanden, Joyce Sanchez, Kirin Khan, Christopher Williams, Roxane Beth Johnson, James Jones, Mark Charles, Jen Sheedy, Hilary Davis, José Sanchez, Samantha Lee, Elmer Yazzie, Erica Huang, Shea Gilbert, Jana Riess, Sanjna Selvarajan, Marco Ambriz, Micheline Aharonian Marcom, Keith Watts, Tino Dinh, Meera Nair, Kara Lee Corthron, Chicava Honeychild, Nancy Agabian, Betsy Andrews, Debra Brehmer, Robyn Kraft, Caitlin Grace McDonnell, Leah Mueller, Jessie Serfilippi, Claudia Smith, Taté Walker, Vernon Keeve, Karyn Kloumann, Caroline Roux, Kelly Goldsmith, Jimmy Graham, Neil Pinkham, Georgia Wright, Amira Karaoud, Celine Gounder, and Teresa K. Miller. To see the 12 days of delight we sent to email subscribers, head over to the Extras page.  Episode transcript   Party co-hosts:(The Squad, our fabulous first class of apprentices) Eve Bishop Melissa Lent Gabriella Mrozowski Isobel Obrecht Winnie Shi Sarai Waters   We'd like to thank you for sharing Shelter in Place with your friends! When your friends subscribe using the link below, we'll send YOU a special thanks! https://refer.fm/shelter Shelter in Place is now part of the Hurrdat Media network. Hurrdat is a digital media and commercial video production company based in Omaha, NE. Find more podcasts and learn more about other services at HurrdatMedia.com.

Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer – The Gift of PoetryAired Monday, December 7, 2020 at 11:00 AM PST / 2:00 PM EST / 6:00 PM GMT / 7:00 PM CETPoet and storyteller Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer gets audiences to wake up and take on their creative endeavors. She helps people find poetry in their own lives and tell their own stories. Join Voice Visionary Kara Johnstad and Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer in a heartfelt conversation on the voice of poetry Honoring our stories and stilling our insatiable thirst for beauty and truth by starting a writing practice. What makes a poem want to sing into the night? How can we let poetry unfold with ease? Is poetry medicine for the soul? Can we learn to bend into a poem and like a willow, surrender at its feet?About Rosemerry Wahtola TrommerRosemerry co-hosts Emerging Form, a podcast on creative process.She teaches poetry for mindfulness retreats, women’s retreats, scientists, hospice, and more. Her poetry has appeared in O Magazine, on A Prarie Home Companion, in Rattle.com, and in Ted Kooser’s American Life in Poetry. Her most recent collection, Hush, won the Halcyon Prize.To get in touch with Kara go to http://www.karajohnstad.com/Visit the Voice Rising show page https://omtimes.com/iom/shows/voice-rising/#RosemerryWahtolaTrommer #TheGiftOfPoetry #VoiceRising #KaraJohnstad

We thought it couldn't get any worse. We were wrong. A story about drugs, sex, and money, and why even in the face of fear, we're not giving up hope.The information I cited about Toxic Cyanobacteria can be found here and here. You can find Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer's daily poems here.------Follow Shelter in Place on Instagram and Facebook at @shelterinplacepodcast or on Twitter at @laurajoycedavis.As always, you can find more show notes, sign up for our newsletter, and support this show at shelterinplacepodcast.info.Use the code SHELTER when you buy wine from our sponsors winesforchange.com or brickandmortarwines.com and get 10% off your order. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Listening deeply, lovingly and fearlessly to one another is among the most nourishing and life-giving practices we humans can take up, and yet many of us have few places in our lives where we regularly do this. Perhaps that's because laying out a 'table made of listening' for one another, one that is open enough and solid enough and safe enough, calls on us to welcome parts of ourselves and others that we often push away. It turns out that the practice of listening to one another, difficult as it may be to start with, cultivates exactly the kind of welcome of ourselves that allows us to be a welcome to others. And that this is something deeply needed in the world and in our lives right now. This episode of Turning Towards Life is a conversation about conversation, hosted as always by Lizzie Winn and Justin Wise of Thirdspace. This is Turning Towards Life, a weekly live 30 minute conversation hosted by Thirdspace (http://www.wearethirdspace.org/) in which Justin Wise and Lizzie Winn dive deep into big questions of human living. Find us on FaceBook (https://www.facebook.com/groups/turningtowardslife/) to watch live and join in the lively conversation on this episode. We’re also on YouTube, and as a podcast on Apple, Google and Spotify. You can find videos of every episode, and more about the project on the Turning Towards Life website (http://turningtowards.life/) . Our source this week is brought to us by Justin, and is written by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer (https://ahundredfallingveils.com/about/) :  Setting In every conversation there is a table made of listening. Sometimes the tables are beautiful, solid, clean—the kind that can support anything you put on them. Sometimes, they’re like the tv dinner trays of my childhood— a little rickety, but they’ll do if what’s put on them is light. Sometimes they’re so cluttered that whatever’s placed on their surface is almost immediately lost. Let tonight’s table have a small vase of flowers and a candle perhaps, nothing else. May it be small enough we might see each other’s eyes, might notice every nuance of breath. Whomever I am most nervous to invite, may I invite them. And though the tea is just a metaphor, may I offer. May they accept. - Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer Photo by Alvin Engler (https://unsplash.com/@englr?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText&fbclid=IwAR0ActG_N7gPZaz7wLQKJW0Z2l2aGXBibscxY5TGlLl1_hFls_OUvwW3_Jk) on Unsplash (https://unsplash.com/s/photos/table?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText&fbclid=IwAR1Dqu1XALxtoi8hRC99Rfxl9C1Vll0HxWTi3jH1uP5geMOg8s3z5wcUXs0)

Erin Cassidente shares about Christ's call to forgive, despite how difficult or frequent that may be. She couples this with the call to seek justice, reading Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer's poem, "In the Steps of RBG."

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How about we find a way to live without permanently being annoyed that things aren't just as we'd like them? Might that not be a path to some joy? Could we give up the way we exhaust ourselves (and often others!) by our attempts to push life around, to control it, to have things just our way? A conversation about creativity, relationship, what happens when we let ourselves fall into life, and giving up trying to herd cats, with Lizzie Winn and Justin Wise of Thirdspace. This is Turning Towards Life, a weekly live 30 minute conversation hosted by Thirdspace (http://www.wearethirdspace.org/) in which Justin Wise and Lizzie Winn dive deep into big questions of human living. Find us on FaceBook (https://www.facebook.com/groups/turningtowardslife/) to watch live and join in the lively conversation on this episode. We’re also on YouTube, and as a podcast on Apple, Google and Spotify. You can find videos of every episode, and more about the project on the Turning Towards Life website (http://turningtowards.life/) . Our source for this week is written by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer (https://www.wordwoman.com/) , from her book 'Naked for Tea (https://www.wordwoman.com/books/naked-for-tea/) ', and brought to us by Justin. Perhaps it would eventually erode, but... Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer That rock that we have been pushing up the hill—that one that keeps rolling back down and we keep pushing back up—what if we stopped? We are not Sisyphus. This rock is not a punishment. It’s something we’ve chosen to push. Who knows why. I look at all the names we once carved into its sedimentary sides. How important I thought they were, those names. How I’ve clung to labels, who’s right, who’s wrong, how I’ve cared about who’s pushed harder and who’s been slack. Now all I want is to let the rock roll back to where it belongs, which is wherever it lands, and you and I could, imagine!, walk unencumbered, all the way to the top and walk and walk and never stop except to discover what our hands might do if for once they were no longer pushing. www.wordwoman.com (https://www.wordwoman.com/) Photo by Pablo Heimplatz (https://unsplash.com/@pabloheimplatz?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText&fbclid=IwAR3MUzHA6amXJzJNjEa3hKv2-5A-zz63sFfMKpbAvjcV2z7WxyrlS76PSs4) on Unsplash (https://unsplash.com/s/photos/rock?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText&fbclid=IwAR2HTTGy5Xw5D97hHS9qQDovkLvCgJuxwS2I3jIefKfE0tJ0rnYDvngHL-E)

Episode #41 welcomes Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer and her most recent book, Naked for Tea. Rosemerry has been a regular contributor to Poets Respond and the Ekphrastic Challenge for years. Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer lives in southwest Colorado and is the author of eleven collections of poetry. Her poems have appeared in O Magazine, Rattle.com, TEDx, in back alleys, on A Prairie Home Companion, and on river rocks she leaves around town. She’s taught poetry for Think 360, Craig Hospital, Ah Haa School for the Arts, Weehawken Creative Arts, Camp Coca-Cola, meditation retreats, addiction recovery programs, hospice, and many other organizations. She’s won the Fischer Prize, Rattle’s Ekphrastic Challenge, the Dwell Press Solstice Prize, the Writer’s Studio Literary Contest, and was a finalist for the Colorado Book Award. As Colorado’s Western Slope Poet Laureate (2015–2017), she created and curates Heard of Poets, an interactive poetry map. She earned her MA in English Language & Linguistics at UW-Madison. Since 2006, she’s written a poem a day. One-word mantra: Adjust. Naked for Tea was a finalist for the 2017 Able Muse Book Award. For more information, visit: https://www.wordwoman.com/ As always, we'll also include live open mic for responses to our weekly prompt. For details on how to participate, either pre-recorded, via Skype, or by phone, go to: https://www.rattle.com/rattlecast/ This Week's Prompt: Run-on-sentence poem. Write a prose poem consisting of one long sentence (commas and other punctuation OK). Next Week's Prompt: From the perspective of a ghost or spirit. The Rattlecast will be livestreaming on YouTube, Facebook, and Periscope.

In honor of Mother's Day, Laura shares this very special bonus episode, a conversation with Emerging Form's hosts, Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer and Christie Aschwanden. They talk about motherhood, creativity in the time of COVID-19, and what the daily practice of creating has taught them during this time of life in a pandemic. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Emerging Form is a podcast about the creative process. It’s a discussion between a poet and a science journalist, recorded over wine. Episode 1 introduces hosts Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer and Christie Aschwanden as well as the podcast’s patron saint, poet Jack Mueller. And the hosts wrestle with what it really means to be in service … Continue reading Episode 1: Introducing Emerging Form → This is a public episode. Get access to private episodes at emergingform.substack.com/subscribe

A long (and long overdue) episode of conversations with Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, multimedia multi-threat. Rosemerry spoke to her birthday twin Uche then Kierstin in 2017. Uche and Kierstin also talk Wayne Miller, Dylan Thomas meets Drake, Lawrence Durrell's "Nemea" and more.

Excerpts from the Poets' Co-op TV Episode 54 featuring Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer reading at her Liquid Light Press Book Launch Party on February 24, 2012. She is reading from her chapbook, The Miracle Already Happening, Everyday Life with Rumi released by Liquid Light Press in the Winter of 2012. (See www.liquidlightpress.com for details.) The reading was held a Ziggie's Lounge in Denver, Colorado, and this excerpt includes three poems for the book, "Rumi Goes to the Beach," "Rumi Goes to the Kindergarten" & "Dear Rumi." Please see www.videopoetry.org for more great poetry.

Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer on the Poets Co-op TV Show on CCTV 54 in Louisville, Colorado, on March 7, 2010 . An excerpt from Episode 30 of the Poets Co-op TV Show featuring Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer performing Confession of a Stay at Home Mom, Moving Toward Smoothfully and After Having My Manuscript Rejected by Ghost Road Press. Please see www.videopoetry.org for more great poetry.