Poetry & Made Things

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Offering inspiration & encouragement to deepen your connection with God by making friends with poetry, whether reading or writing. There may be birds.

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About Jody L. Collins

Writer, retired teacher & author of Mining the Bright Birds: Poems of Longing for Home. Enneagram 7 and over fond of coffee, I own waaaay too many picture books. "My tongue is the pen of a ready writer." PS. 45:1

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