books and music from over the years live on these shelves
even if I don’t reread or listen again
somehow their healing influence is in these words
by Ellen Grace Olinger
The Haiku Way To Healing: Illness, Injury and Pain (Including Senryu, Tanka and Haiga). Edited by Robert Epstein, 2022. Middle Island Press, West Union, WV.
I reprinted my three poems from this anthology on February 2, 2023.
Compassion International offers a Gift Catalog. In honor of Mother’s Day this year, Karl and I sent a general gift for Art Classes. Perhaps a gift for Music Lessons for Father’s Day.