So glad you have signed up to receive the For Random Learning Comes Newsletter! This is the forty-ninth edition. Previous editions can be found on the blog's Newsletter page. I send it out weekly, so if you don't get my email on Saturday morning, please let me know! (Check your junk and spam folders too.) My five latest posts are at the end of this newsletter, latest first. Hello again, after a month of silence! Things got rather hectic around here and there was no way to keep up with this newsletter while dealing with that mess, so my hiatus ended up lasting a bit longer than expected. I hope you enjoyed any spring holidays you might have celebrated! We enjoyed Easter with the family and still have leftovers two weeks later ( might be time to throw those away I guess...) This week I have three new poems to share. Two are inspired by world events and the third by personal ones. The first poem is personal. We have made some big changes in the past few weeks so this rings true with me. The poem is called Transplant, and it compares life changes to the act of transplanting a plant to a larger pot or to the garden so it can grow and prosper. It is often not until we escape the confines of our narrow lives, that we realize what we are missing! The second poem is called Sovereign, and it is inspired by the recent Russian infringement on Ukraine's sovereignty. I play on the various meanings of the word sovereign-- from royalty, to a state's autonomy, to the coin of the realm. In any case, a commodity to be respected. The third poem, Control, comes from even further away. It is about China's battle to control its latest wave of COVID and the great lengths it is willing to go to (unlike us) to try to keep its nation COVID-free. The first line of the poem is from a statement made recently by the President of China to his people. The words, even after translation, sound strange to American ears, especially as other people fight for Freedom in the context of Ukraine. If you haven't signed up for my newsletter yet, I hope you will consider doing so. And tell your friends! There's a blue signup form on every page. You can also follow my Twitter account, @AndreaLedew,which posts my previously published blogposts several times a day . Thanks again for your continued readership and support. It means a lot to me. Have a great week! Andrea The links below will take you to the five most recent posts. The blue logo takes you to the homepage. The section on English Majors has the most recent stuff.

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