“If You Knew What if you knew you'd be the last to touch someone? If you were taking tickets, for example, at the theater, tearing them, giving back the ragged stubs, you might take care to touch that palm brush… — Ellen Bass Copy Share Image
“In spite of the horror, in spite of the tragedy, in spite of the weeks of sleepless nights, I'm finally alive. I'm not pretending.… — Ellen Bass Copy Share Image
Garrison Keillor read several of my poems on 'The Writer's Almanac' and I've heard from listeners nationally and internationally. That's one of the great… — Ellen Bass Copy Share Image
“If You Knew What if you knew you'd be the last to touch someone? If you were taking tickets, for example, at the theater,… — Ellen Bass Copy Share Image
Allow yourself to release the emotions you have struggled all your life to contain. — Ellen Bass Copy Share Image
“The Aftermath When the fierce pure pleasure has clawed through, ripped open my tent of separateness, I lay in my lover's arms, weeping and… — Ellen Bass Copy Share Image
“Dead Butterfly By Ellen Bass For months my daughter carried a dead monarch in a quart mason jar. To and from school in her… — Ellen Bass Copy Share Image
If you’ve managed to do one good thing, the ocean doesn’t care. But when Newton’s apple fell toward the earth, the earth, ever so… — Ellen Bass Copy Share Image
There is a comfort in knowing that you don’t have to pretend anymore, that you are going to do everything within your power to… — Ellen Bass Copy Share Image
Visualizing how you want to be is [an] effective way to move toward your goal. — Ellen Bass Copy Share Image
“Healing was a terrifying and painful experience and my life was as full of struggle and heartache as it had always been. Several years… — Ellen Bass Copy Share Image
“The World Has Need Of You” everything here seems to need us —Rainer Maria Rilke I can hardly imagine it as I walk to… — Ellen Bass Copy Share Image
Exercise stimulates your circulation, massages your internal organs, stretches and strengthens your muscles, and energizes you. Exercise is also a great way to discharge… — Ellen Bass Copy Share Image
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