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Diana Pho's avatar

Thanks for these precious words. I look forward to every letter, and for the last few years, your new year's posts have been especially meaningful. Sending peaceful wishes for 2024!

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Devin Kelly's avatar

Thank you so much, Diana! Sending all the best in this new year.

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Jeff Bradach's avatar

So grateful for your weekly letters, Devin.

Wishing you the best for 2024.

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Devin Kelly's avatar

Always grateful for you reading, Jeff. Have a wonderful new year!

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Hannah Levy's avatar

Curiosity is precious. My six year old inspires me on a daily basis 🤍

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Devin Kelly's avatar

I love that. It really is precious.

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Michael Bazzett's avatar

Thanks for this...

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Ammi Kohn's avatar

This is so provocative, evocative. I will be reading and re-reading this a bunch of times. Thank you for this New Year’s gift1

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Devin Kelly's avatar

Appreciate you! Have a wonderful new year

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Roxani Krystalli's avatar

Happy new year, Devin. You and these letters are gifts.

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Devin Kelly's avatar

Thank you always, Roxani!

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Celeste's avatar

as always, such thoughtful possibilities. thank you for recommending questions as a way forward. as well as a way to look back on the year, or many years.

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Devin Kelly's avatar

Thank you for reading, Celeste!

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Priscilla Stuckey's avatar

I love that litany of questions from her poems! She may be the poet whose work I know best, yet I never looked at her through the lens of questions. Thank you for this! And for the image of kids sticking their heads up toward the front seat to pester the adults with endless questions. Wonder and curiosity forever! ✊🏼

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Putali's avatar

What a beautiful essay. Thank you!

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Putali's avatar

Please write something on Ted Kooser.

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Amanda Wald Rachie's avatar

"... The face of the moose is as sad

as the face of Jesus ..."

"I think that hope comes in what we choose to bear together."

Grateful to have found your writing this year by way of a blog friend who lives in Germany, to have been introduced to so many poets I had not read before. Your weekly essays enrich my creative life.

Many of Mary Oliver's questions are like koans. I love them. It is heartening to read your essay about her poetry at the end of 2023 and the beginning of 2024.

All the best to you and your beloveds in 2024 and always.

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