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Rita Ott Ramstad's avatar

I don't think you should ratchet down your enthusiasm for anything. This post made me feel good in about 5 different ways, and I needed that today. Thank you! I loved the poem you shared, as I've been feeling a tiny bit melancholy about the trees losing their candy this week. Now I am looking out to the willow in our front yard and I'm cheering those leaves on.

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Mary Hutto Fruchter's avatar

Wise woman! What a lovely comment Rita! Thank you for being here! 🍃

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Andrea Bass's avatar

I am honored that you referred to me as “being more tethered to actual time and space than myself.” My tethering to time and space is one of my best qualities, and I thank you for recognizing it. I’m glad one of us got to enjoy the poetry workshop. 😀

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Mary Hutto Fruchter's avatar

😂 amazingly, we are still friends

We are still friends, right?

Thanks for pointing out the silliness and deliciousness of the description - it makes me want to write a spoof dating profile - seeking someone tethered to time and space who isn’t allergic to mushrooms

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Mich's avatar

I love my ritual of starting my week listening to you. I’m definitely feeling the weight of “the duties of the thing.” I still stand by our theory 💯 (and your overalls). Love you.

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Mary Hutto Fruchter's avatar

Love you too- so nice to have a pic to put with this story 🤗

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Katharine Beckett Winship's avatar

I am kinning with you on the 3:00 a.m. Substack thing.🌱🩵🌱

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Mary Hutto Fruchter's avatar

It was a challenge but it is so much better now which I am grateful for- wishing you rest and peace and fortitude

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Claire Coenen's avatar

💗💗💗 I love all of this. These lines from Ada Limon’s poem are some of my favorite to come back to this spring : “Patient, plodding, a green skin

growing over whatever winter did to us, a return

to the strange idea of continuous living despite

the mess of us, the hurt, the empty.

And I love your poem too—filled with good things I need to keep remembering. Thanks for another pocketful of beautiful reminders.

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Mary Hutto Fruchter's avatar

Aww! Thanks for reading Claire. Any news on when your book comes out?

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Claire Coenen's avatar

The release date is still TBD, but it is looking like late June/early July! I'm in the back-and-forth with the publisher now, so hoping to know more soon. I'll let you know when I do! :)

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Dottie Turner Leatherwood's avatar

Just lovely!

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Mary Hutto Fruchter's avatar

Thanks Dottie! I’m so glad you enjoyed it.

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Karen S. Bonnell's avatar

Delight! TY, Mary.

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Mary Hutto Fruchter's avatar

I’m so glad. Thanks for being here. 🌻

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