Meditations on Gratitude is an affirmation of life, the eternal yes, and the voice of one returning to foundations of responsibility, love, and understanding often learned in adolescent experience. The poems depict growth from solipsism, preoccupation with pain and fear, to acceptance, and surrender. They allow the personae growth in recognition of death. Some understandings came out of my association with Armida Alexander, my Unitarian Universalist minister, and fulfillment of my roles as husband and father. The poems depict a new assumption of responsibility sometimes through simple awareness of the words please, and thank you. Thus, the poetic voice becomes one of gratitude, and an affirmation of life, life as a great gift, for as Jon Kabat-Zinn has said stated in his book Full Catastrophe Living, as long as one is breathing, one is doing something right. In meditation, both Theravada and Mahayana Buddhist traditions emphasize breath, and often beginning meditation starts with simple breath counting. From this comes insight, and this is the point of Meditations on Gratitude, the insight of life as in the Buddha turning after attaining Enlightenment to the earth, and breath became essence. Christians would call this the breath of life.
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Charles E Taylor lives in Hartford, South Dakotas with his wife Marjorie Remacle-Taylor, their dog Cinco, and their cat Pepper. Charles and Marjorie moved to the Sioux Falls area in 1993 and have lived in their home in Hartford for twenty years. A graduate of Grinnell College, The University of Iowa, and Colorado State University, Charles holds a BA in English and history, an MA in English, an Ed S in college teaching, and an MFA in creative writing. He has also earned the Professional Certificate in Photography, and the Advanced Certificate in Landscape and Nature Photography from The New York Institute of Photography. Their daughter Laurel Ann Taylor lives and teaches in Hokkaido, Japan. Charles reads poetry and religious books, and says that people are his reason for living. In 2009 he published his first book of poems and Photographs, Winter from Spring through Xlibris. He is influenced by the poetry of TS Eliot, Emily Dickenson, and Walt Whitman. Charles taught college English for 22 years, and says he learned most from his work in fast-food restaurants. He is a member of the National Alliance on Mental Illness, and Active Generations where he volunteers as a coffee shop attendant and a creative writing group leader.
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