Welcome to Commune, a global wellness community and online course platform featuring some of the world's greatest teachers.

We are on a mission to inspire, heal, pass down wisdom, and bring the world closer together. This is the Commune podcast,

where each week we explore the ideas and practices that help us live this healthy,

connected, and purpose-filled life. In addition to our courses on yoga, meditation, and

personal development, Commune also offers an array of social impact

courses, including unwinding prejudice, redefining leadership, and organize a march. If you are

interested in enrolling in any of these course offerings for free, please email me at jeff k at

one commune.com. Right now, I think we can all benefit from learning and

growing in order to better serve our communities. So five years ago, I had just moved to

Los Angeles from Brooklyn, New York. It was February 2015, and I found myself meandering

through the Hollywood Farmer's Market,

which sprawls out through the heart of the district

every Sunday.

As an East Coaster, I remember being amazed

by the volume of ripe avocados, fresh kale, and artichokes, and other

assorted produce in the middle of winter. Tucked near a hummus stand on the west side of the market,

I came across a young woman pecking on an old typewriter. Her name was Jacqueline Suskin,

and she wrote extemporaneous poems for people. Over the years, she's written over

40,000 poems at this poem store. Jacqueline and I developed a relationship, and she ended up

making a course for commune on writing poetry called Every Day is a Poem. Her book of the same title

comes out in the fall of 2020.

She's written a variety of poetry anthologies, including a beautiful transcendent series on California called The Edge of the Continent.

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