In-Versing Your Life

🗳️ Elections are close and people find it harder to talk to one another. 0:43🧐 Looking through different lenses showed me something different. 1:34👂 'Sound principles' a poem from 'Please Use This for Children and Not for War and Guns' book. 2:46🧠 What kind of lenses had people who made fun of smart girls? 5:06🧨 Why are we so divided and have so different lenses to look at the world? 6:27🕶️ All the lenses we need to get rid of. 7:55📖 Poem 'Number Three' from a book 'Between Tahlequah and Tulsa' 9:16⛩️ When you live in different places. you have to remove lenses to understand a different culture and people. 13:09📝Poetry assignment: think about the lenses you wear and if those are stopping you understand people around you and vice versa. 13:53🗣️ Try using awareness of lenses in and try to talk with someone that you couldn't talk to before.15:29

🏙️ 00:15 There is always somebody to help you in Tulsa.🐦 01:06 Canada geese's community spirit is strong.🪁 01:53 Poem: "Migration"💞 04:15 The poem is based on a true story - wild geese sacrifice for the one who is not as strong.♿ 04:55 Mr. Gustavson, who is in a wheelchair, is often helped by others, too.👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 05:36 "And that's what I wish for you, that you have a community."⛑️ 05:59 "We need one another. We need to care for one another."🧒 06:20 Visit Cynthia at http://cynthiagustavson.com  and find out more about her book, Please Use This for Children and Not for War and Guns, at https://cynthiagustavson.com/2020/08/15/please-use-this-for-children-not-for-war-and-guns/

✝️ 00:15 There are funerals where nobody shows up and funerals where there are many friends and relatives.⛪ 01:23 Not all the relatives could get to the funeral of Cynthia's Dad because the church was full.🥀 01:54 "Loss has so many ramifications to it."📖 01:58 Cynthia introduces a poem from her therapy book "In-Versing Your Life", which can also be found in her e-book, "I Don't Write Love Poems"🌧️️02:25 Poem: "Loss"🩹 04:07 We have to learn to live through the loss, it's inevitable.🧶 04:54 Small losses help us deal with major losses.🔗 05:37 Visit Cynthia and find out more about her books, at https://cynthiagustavson.com/books-music/

🏥 00:15 Both Cynthia's mother and sister are breast cancer survivors. She wrote a poem about that.📕 01:06 The poem can be found in the book "Re-Versing Your Pain"👩‍⚕️ 01:27 Poem: "Double Helix Twisting"👙 07:56 Remember to check yourself regularly!🌱 08:15 Visit Cynthia at http://cynthiagustavson.com  and find out more about her books, at https://www.bloomingtwig.com/Authors/Cynthia-Gustavson.

🍁 00:15 It's a privilege to live out at the lake house. It is so quiet and the fall is beautiful.⛰️ 00:38 Cynthia talks about what inspired her book, "Between Tahlequah and Tulsa."🧅 01:14 Poem: "Number Two"🙃 03:10 Do you think that you are approaching things from upside down?🎯 03:39 Are you direct when you want something?👁️ 04:01 What are you hungry for?🤗 04:25 Think about the time when what you had was enough in your life.📚 05:10 Watch for Cynthia's new book and, in the meantime, visit her at http://cynthiagustavson.com  and find out more about her other books, at https://www.bloomingtwig.com/Authors/Cynthia-Gustavson.

🥶 00:15 Cynthia muses about how it finally got cold in Oklahoma.🧭 00:51 Today's poem is a new one, exploring the symbolism of the sides of the world using the "grid".🌐 01:38 The "grid" exists everywhere - you always know the sides of the world.️🎙️ 02:00 Poem: "The Grid"🧩 03:10 This week's question: how do you see the entire world through the grid of your first home? ‍ 🏫 04:17  "...as we get older, the only way that we learn something new..."❔ 05:10 Is that working for you?📲 06:02 Visit Cynthia at http://cynthiagustavson.com  and find out more about her book, Bully! The Big Book About Bullies and the Bullied, at https://www.bloomingtwig.com/Authors/Cynthia-Gustavson.

😇 What makes us change from day to day?  0:57😮 The whole concept of change is about nurture. 1:44🎙️ Cynthia reads a poem 2:43🪕 Music has always been a big part of Cynthia's life. 6:02🎶 Music her Dad played opened a door to a whole another world to Cynthia. 7:18🤔 What heritage did you own that made you different from other people? 9:41🤔 Who or what shaped you as a teenager? 11:10🌳 Each decade brings fresh changes—positive and negative. 12:53🦄 'I used to be, but now I am' exercise. 16:00🌷 'I used to be a flower but now I'm a broken stem.' 17:15💟  I am now, but I will be. 19:03https://cynthiagustavson.com/books-music/

🧩 Poetry is a puzzle, and I make up my rules. 01:14📖 A poem from the book "Conversing with God, poetry for pastoral counseling and spiritual direction." 2:05🐦 About the poem  Catbird 1609 C 2:24😊 Cynthia reads a poem. 3:54🤓 Birds are so programmed. 5:40🌱 Exercise: What is growing on my soil? 7:20👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Are our siblings growing in the same soil as we are? 10:04🤩 Exercise: using your name as an acrostic poem to describe yourself. 14:29

🥇Cynthia's first poem was published in a national publication in 1984. 0:14😇Dialysis is a poem of hope. 0:59🎙️Cyntia reads the poem Dialysis. 2:54🍂Enjoy the colors of autumn. 3:48https://cynthiagustavson.com/books-music/ 

📂 "Perfect and terrible" categories of body image you push yourself in. 0:17📖 Cynthia reads her poem  `Image` 1:11✌️ Thin is in but also is sexy. And being your own woman. 2:34👀 Life seems easy for models on the TV. 3:41🧚 Take care of yourself. 5:02🔥 Body image: think health, don't think model. 6:09💎 Workbook for Eating Disorders:  https://amzn.to/3iea2d3https://cynthiagustavson.com/

🚴 Using a riding on a bicycle as an extended metaphor. 0:20📖 Poem: "How I move forward?" 1:01😇How do you move forward? And do you think about your spirituality? 2:52🌎 I try to lessen my footprint on the earth. 3:11🫂 Using poetry with sexual abuse victims. 5:12📚 Bully: https://amzn.to/2F4vmnV📚 In-Versing: Self Discovery and Healing: https://amzn.to/2F4IPMt📚 https://amzn.to/3hlKZ7y

🌧️Rain is so wonderful, it extends green colors in nature. 0:18🧘Just like yoga stretches, poetry stretches you inside towards unreachable places. 0:50📖Reading: Poem about Yoga. 1:25🤔Thinking about what we have hidden inside that's still giving you a trouble.2:55😓Poetry cuts like a knife to find what is hurting inside. 3:24✍️Write poems to heal yourself. 3:42😊https://cynthiagustavson.com/books-music/📗Book: https://cynthiagustavson.com/2020/08/15/between-tahlequah-and-tulsa/

🏡Working out in September and using onomatopoeia in writing. 0:19🥁A story for children; "I Want to Play Drums" 1:41👂Thinking about sounds in your world. 6:54🧒Using poetry as therapy for children who've been bullied, but also for bullies:  📗https://cynthiagustavson.com/2020/08/15/bully-the-big-book-about-bullies-and-the-bullied/

🏖️ Hope you have been to the beach this summer, haven't you? 00:15☯️ Two kinds of people in the world, according to various dichotomies. 00:45⌛ [poem: "Walking on Sand"] 01:41🤔 Have we ever considered that we are the "top dogs"? 06:18🙏 Visit Cynthia at http://cynthiagustavson.com  and find out more about her books at https://www.bloomingtwig.com/Authors/Cynthia-Gustavson.

🔠 Following is a new children's story, where many homonyms are used. 00:15🎢 ["Merry Mary at the Fair and the Unfair Merry-Go-Round Fair - A Story in Homonyms"] 02:08🎙️ "Being a poet, I love the sound of language." 05:47🖥️ Visit Cynthia at http://cynthiagustavson.com  and look up Cynthia's books at https://www.bloomingtwig.com/Authors/Cynthia-Gustavson 06:35  

🌅 The most beautiful August ever! 00:15👉 Introducing the poem. 00:35💇‍♀️ [poem: "Split Ends"] 01:16❓ Split ends as a metaphor and what it means. What are the remaining hairs? 02:243️⃣Three things that make up your braid, and what escaped the braids. 03:14🙏 Visit Cynthia at http://cynthiagustavson.com  and find out more about her books at https://www.bloomingtwig.com/Authors/Cynthia-Gustavson. 04:06

🛖 We all have our own special connections to log cabins, don't we? 00:15🍂 [poem: Knotty Pine and Cozy Dark] 01:39🌱 Find your unwinding time and place, so you can find yourself, again. 04:45🙏 Visit Cynthia at http://cynthiagustavson.com  and find out more about her books at https://www.bloomingtwig.com/Authors/Cynthia-Gustavson. 

🤔 Who am I? There are so many ways to answer this question. 00:32👴 [Cynthia introduces and reads a poem about her grandfather, Mr. Knoblauch] 02:56👶 Children are born with their temperament, their personality. 05:57⤴️ We are often compared to certain family members. 06:24👩‍🍼 On mothers' and babies' temperaments, and an experiment. 07:03🧶 [Cynthia introduces and reads a poem titled "Four Generations of Women"] 11:39👪 Think of something in your life and relate it to somebody who raised you. 14:31🧬  How do genetics and environment relate to this week's question of how we are 15:19

📖 Two tomatoes-related poems from the book "Con-Versing with God". 00:15🍅 Cynthia receives the "August Tomatoes" 00:57🪖 Cynthia reads the second poem, "Tomatoes in Cages" 01:42🌡️ Tomatoes as a metaphor and the weather in Oklahoma 02:45🙏 Visit Cynthia at http://cynthiagustavson.com  and find out more about "Con-Versing with God: Poetry Workbook for Pastoral Counseling" at https://www.bloomingtwig.com/book/Con-Versing-with-God 03:25 

📚 Kent explains the origin of his publishing company name and its tagline 01:16🪖 Soldiers getting used to reading through comic books and how that resonates with writing books that people want to read. 03:17💝 All of the publishing is driven by money. Don't let that stop you from creating something beautiful. 05:33👃 The sense of smell. 06:41🖍️ Talking about the illustrations from "Bully! The Big Book About Bullies and the Bullied" from the previous episode of the podcast. 08:48👊 Kent talks about bullying and Cynthia talks about how it was like for her as a parent. 11:05🪕 Kent talks about his pets and biggest passion, music. 14:20⛪ Composing music for the church. Simple chords, singable, playable, not made for performance. 16:57📑 [Cynthia reads a poem from her most recent poetry book Between Tahlequah and Tulsa.] 20:24💞 This weekend, write about your passions. 22:24