Chris Duffy

Violets are blue.

I'm with two poets.

Do what you do.

And there's the poetry.

Oh, there's a flower named poetry.

Yeah.

When you are walking around a place like this that's full of natural beauty...

Is this like right possibility for poetic inspiration?

Or is that not how it works for you?

Speaking of which, as much as we wanted to stay and smell the roses, there was a poetry reading that we had to catch at one of the great local bookstores in town, $2 Radio Headquarters.

Funny enough, it wasn't actually a reading for Hanif, but one that he had put together for Sarah, whose book had just come out, which really hit something home for me.

Like Hanif said, place may be something that happens to you, but community, that's something you build with care and generosity.

As I sat and listened to some beautiful poetry with this lovely group of people, I realized that building a community doesn't have to be this big, intimidating thing.

It can start small.

It reminded me of something that Hamif said earlier.

How do you decide who is in your circle of care and who is not?

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I'm your host, Chris Duffy.

The episode of this podcast that has the very worst reviews that we've ever gotten in the two years we've been making this show is an episode that we did on how to talk to people across a political divide.

And that was no fault at all of our guests.