How may I direct your call? Direct me to someone
who will listen
with silent attentiveness.
Direct me to someone
who will treat me
with dignity and respect,
to someone
for whom I’m not
just a trifling detail
of the day.
Direct me to a power,
a source,
a spirit,
a way of knowing
that deepens my understanding
of myself
and the universe.
Direct me to knowledge
that allows me
to improve myself
and the world.
Direct me to peace
to peace
to peace.
Direct me to contentment
with all that is good
and patience
with that which must change.
Direct me; I’m calling.
Please, direct me.
Debbie Harris is a graduate of Goddard's Transformative Language Arts Master's program. She is an adjunct English instructor at Hartnell Community College in Salinas, California. Her focus is on English language development for underserved populations.
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Ah... typed a detailed comment and got snagged in all this on line registration stuff. so this is a test to see if this goes through!!
I see it went through. Sight is compelling in design and subject. would like to submit some things though was unable to via the suggested address of TLAConference@goddard.edu suggestions?? Thanks
Hi Marshrain,
Thanks so much for writing! The TLAconference@goddard.edu should work, but actually, we have a new web editor - Michelle Anderson, and she's at naed94@yahoo.com. Please send her what you would like to submit, and thanks so much!
Caryn
hi. i found you. well, i wasn't seeking... but here you are.
i'm liz.... we moved to chico... in 04.... but before such move- you ran a writing seminar at U.P. and gillian invited me..... i made it to the last two...
everyone's life has been altered. majorly.
would love to correspond should you find the time and or desire. change. time.... glad you have writing...what a gift.
me- i'm a reader.
anyway. don't want to leave my email on a public site.....wondering how i can reach you? hartnell?
all the best, liz
I would love to use this poem in a workshop where the focus is on "PEACE."
How may I contact the author?
~Geraldine Cannon Becker
University of Maine at Fort Kent
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