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To make a donation, please visit Tarabrock.com. Namst day and welcome friends. So I am excited and really honored to be joined by my guest today who's a new friend and a poet Rosemary Atala Trauma who's written 13 collections of poetry,

won many prizes and honors for her work.

She teaches and performs poetry

and also as a storyteller.

And she's been writing a poem a day since 2006.

Rosemary is also an organic fruit grower, newspaper, and magazine editor has done this in her years,

parent educator.

So just to say personally, I was drawn to Rosemary's poetry several years ago.

I found some pieces in a book on grief and she was writing about the loss of her son Finn who took his life at age 16.

And I had never read anything on grieving that touched me so deeply, you know, that held so much wisdom

and was such a deep affirmation of love really. So I went on to read her collection All the Honey and very differently than I read poems usually. I just read every single poem and all and over and over read from it,

I've posted it's on most pages, I've heard it out loud,

to my husband before bed, something that we never do, he became a fan.

So now Rosemary's come out with this new collection, the unfolding, and I have immersed

myself in this one, and you going to get to hear some of the poems from it,

but it really speaks of the power of saying yes to life, really loving without holding back.

And so, especially in these shadowy times, this book, The Unfolding,

is really medicine, medicine for our hearts. So this is what we'll talk about. We'll talk about grief and love and opening to what's difficult, to what's beautiful, really saying yes alive.

So Rosemary, welcome my friend, thank you for being with us.

Thank you, thank you so much Tara. This is, I'm full of joy actually to be here. Thank you.

Yeah, it's lovely to get together and so I thought I would start with questions about your life really

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