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This is cummings' best poem for me--so moving and loving. A beautiful reading of it, Mary! "i carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart)"--how powerful!

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Ah, so glad to meet your generous soul and to engage with you as we are now doing. Only connect ... xx

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Only connect—I love that!

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Nadia, that quote is the epigraph to E.M. Forster's gorgeous novel _Howards End_.

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That's wonderful!

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Nov 2Liked by <Mary L. Tabor>

Dear Mary ~ I maybe shouldn’t have read this on the train. (🥹) How lovely and touching to see you read this and share your story. You’ve greatly enhanced my appreciation for the poem. Cummings was a treasure.

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Ah, Julie, My warmest and heartfelt thanks,

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This has been one of my favorite poems. It’s the line “this is the wonder that’s keeping the stars apart” After your heartbreaking story and the poetry of the Rabbi’s ordering of the service I can see so many more meanings, readings to this masterpiece of writing. You are a deep, powerful woman so full of heart.

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Ah, Sharon, Of course this is one of your favorites. I hope you know how much your taking the time to comment with such empathy means to me! 💕

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Oh, Mary. Thank you for this reading. There's so much love and sorrow in the velvet folds of your voice. I hope you find some bliss and tenderness in writing the essay.

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Ah, heart breaks, heart renewed by your words, dear Alisa.

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Oct 27Liked by <Mary L. Tabor>

I love this poem. So moving the way it is connected to Ben and your granddaughter.

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Oh my dear Debbie, you are a love!

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Oct 26Liked by <Mary L. Tabor>

Beautiful poem and beautiful reading Mary! Sorry to learn about the loss of your son… gives this poem a meaningful context.

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Ah, thank you so, Imola and I so appreciate your taking the time to listen.

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It’s a joy to listen to you and read you Mary. Always.

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Oct 26Liked by <Mary L. Tabor>

What a beautiful choice for her to carry with, throughout her life and hand it to the next generation.

“…and it’s you are whatever a moon has always meant

and whatever a sun will always sing is you…”

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Ah, Lor, how lovely.

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Oct 26·edited Oct 26Liked by <Mary L. Tabor>

A lovely reading. I'll have to remember this poem.

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Oh Liz, it's clearly an all time favorite of mine. Thank you for listening.

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Beautiful, Mary. Thank you for that xx

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Oh, my goodness, I thought I'd lost you, love!

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Hello! Let’s have a zoom catch up x

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Let me know when. I would love that.

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Oct 26Liked by <Mary L. Tabor>

So beautiful, Mary. It is the poem of living and loving our closest, I’m going now to listen again!

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Oh, my heart both breaks and holds so much. 💝

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Oct 25Liked by <Mary L. Tabor>

Incredibly touchingly read Mary, thank you for your heart in E.E. Cummings words.

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Ah, Susie, the heart, the heart to you! xx

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What a soulful reading of a poem that is sublime now that I've heard it from you, Mary. Surely this is a poem for the blood and heart. Wow. I will be listening to this again and again. Thank you for this.

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Thank you, Tara, for the heartfelt project and all the ways that you did it. I'm so glad to have found you. My heart to yours, Mary

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As writers often do, I felt I only followed where the project wanted to lead. The admiration is mutual. The heart knows its business. 🥰

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Indeed, and beautifully stated, dear Tara.

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So touching 💙 and a lovely poem.

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Heart to heart, Kathleen.

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Beautiful poem beautifully read.

I love this bit so much “and it’s you are whatever a moon has always meant

and whatever a sun will always sing is you”—both the words and the emotion you brought to them.

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I think, Holly, that I almost cried when I got to that line--even slightly faltered on a word. Thought about rerecording and then told myself, no: let it be. xo

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Oct 25Liked by <Mary L. Tabor>

Lovely post and even more lovelier because of your reading of the poem and why it is special to you xo

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You are so dear to me, Isabelle, for this comment and more.

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Such a beautiful poem. One of my favourite love poems too. Thank you for reading, dear Mary, and reminding me of the ones I'm carrying in my heart.

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Ah Veronika, how lovely—and the way you phrase your comment moved me.

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