So glad you have signed up to receive the For Random Learning Comes Newsletter! This is the twelfth edition. Previous editions can be found on the blog's Newsletter page. If you don't get my email on Saturday morning please let me know! (Check your junk and spam folders too.) ******** My name is Andrea LeDew. My blog is a mixture of poetry, short stories and essays. I usually write two to three posts a week. My five latest posts are at the end of this newsletter, latest first. ******** I wrote three poems this week and added two more unpublished poems, for a total of five. I had submitted the first two poems for publication elsewhere, but they were sadly not selected. :( I hope you enjoy them. My first poem (the most recent) is called Hive Mind. It's about the way we behave on the internet as a group. Which, in general, is not very well. My second poem is called Immune. It concerns itself with COVID's effect on our mental health. Not in terms of brain fog or other symptoms of long COVID, but in terms of compassion for others, or the casual acceptance of mass casualties. My third poem, Mother First, is a sweet little catalog of images related to motherhood. I hope it will help you relive your own experiences in this regard, imagine your hopes for the future, or assess your enjoyment of the children of others, whom you are perfectly happy to leave behind, when you go. My fourth poem this week is called Burning Flags. It's bit of a legal tongue lashing of the think tanks and the legislators who, rather than creating their own legislation, adopt the think tanks' suggestions word-for-word. The strategy seems to be smash and grab: Get legislation on the books, and worry about the Supreme Court and all those inalienable rights later on. My fifth poem is called No Time. It's about our inability to find the time, to do the things we should be doing. But if you haven't got the time to read it...:) ********* Let me know how I've done--it's always so interesting to hear how people react, to what I've written. There's a black comment box at the bottom of the white space on each page on the site. It says "I'd love to hear your thoughts!" It asks for info when you click it, but I think you can comment without filling those out as well. Don't be deterred by the form-bots! I--a human being, last time I checked--want to hear what you have to say! And let me know if you encounter any problems--there's a contact form on the About page, too. You're always welcome to poke around on the site with or without your Saturday morning brew. Press the blue logo, if you feel like going straight to the homepage. The section on English Majors has the most recent stuff. ********* Thanks again, for your moral support and comments! And be sure to share, and encourage your like-minded friends to subscribe. Thank you! Have a great week! Andrea The links below will take you to the five most recent posts. The blue logo will take you directly to the website home page.

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