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 Hello Peru, Sweden, and the Philippines! Also a specific shout out to Delta Goodrem in Australia. Hope you are healing and continuing to nurture yourself so that you can reach out and teach those creative souls who will appreciate your insight and wisdom on their artistic journey. Delta, I don't know you personally, but have become a fan over the last two years when you were a panelist on Australia's The Voice . You are such a powerful vocalist, an inspirational  songwriter/lyricist whose poetic words and insight are a bright light in global music, and a highly technical yet, soulful pianist whose playing touches my heart.  I hope that you you and your 2020 co-judges (wherever you perform for 2021 and after) continue to use your talent and your journey, its triumphs and its challenges, to create a path for others in need of strength to heal.   While I'm giving shout outs . . . to all you educators around the world, keep your positive light and love for learning...

Hello Hong Kong, Belgium, and France.  Thank you for the support over the last two months!! I reflected on whether or not to post this entry and decided perhaps it will help us--you my readers and me, to get a grasp on our lives, in retrospect, before the epidemic turned into the present COVID 19 Pandemic, before our lives in the United States of America became so disrupted and convoluted.       Delores Fisher aboard public transit in San Diego: This really became the new normal . . .       Empty streets and almost empty buses except for first responders traveling in silence to and        from work and others who used the buses to go shopping, or conduct personal business. Olga Gutierrez Garcia called me in February and asked if I wanted to go to a poetry reading. She knew I had been ill again and that going to listen to other poets usually gave me strength. San Diego has a unique poetry co...

Thank you new readers in Ireland, the Philippines, and Pakistan. Here's a Black History month blast from the past photo. It doesn't seem like two years ago when I featured as guest poet at a local San Diego coffee house. This photo brought back memories. Quite a few poets were in the audience. Activist and writer Gloria Verdieu was in the audience. I hadn't seen her in several weeks although I was aware of some of her community work during 2019.                            Gloria Verdieu, Reg E. Gaines, and me Delores Fisher Since I was recovering from a serious viral illness, that lasted several weeks, Megan Webster and Olga Gutierrez Garcia graciously consented to co-feature with me. It was a uniting of 3 of our 4nth poetry group from the early 2000s. Rev. Kelli Parish Lucas was not there due to a miscommunication on my part. We missed Kelli's prese...