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Love the change! Shows how powerful just one edit can be. So good!!!

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Thanks, Marcos!

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I love this piece.

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Thank you, Rachel.

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A mantra recitation of Sangye Menla - Medicine Buddha - puts a seal of protection around pilot, passenger, others soon to be involved. My ritual whenever I hear or see ambulances - seems like the least I can offer up.

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“My free verse isn’t completely free.” Such an eloquent and succinct way to state what the difference is between “free verse” poetry and prose with funny formatting!

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Thanks, Brian!

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So poignant and succinct and powerful all at once. Beautiful piece.

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Thank you.

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Compact and impactful. What a tight little piece. Well done.

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Thank you.

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Reading your poignant poem on the Seine as our longship ascends in a lock on our way from Rouen to Les Andelys. To see the place of Richard the Lionhearted. And I too have been an ambulance and so grateful for the care given and about to be given.

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Wow, wjat a place to be read! Thank you.

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That is powerful poetry.

You have an exceptional ability to pack so much in so few words.

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Thank you, Arjan.

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Comforting that we can count on strangers.

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Yes, it is.

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Life Flight took Brittany from Moscow to Spokane so that Wesley could be born into the best possible hands. For two months I heard that same percussion every six hours and prayed for the folks joining us.

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Yes, yes, Dan. Prayers and gratitude all around.

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What a wonderful perspective to have. Thanks for sharing it with us, Sherman!

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Thanks, Justin.

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Thanks Sherman. The reason I love this one is that I've been on that Seattle-bound helicopter twice.

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I'm happy you're here to tell the tales!

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Beautiful and on target as usual

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Thank you, Becky.

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Love the poem and the audio! 👋 For all the reasons people are hearing the emphasis on “interruption,” I’d guess the word you moved was “this,” up a line. It seems prosy and natural for “this” to start life next to “interruption,” and it heightens everything between the stanzas to move that word.

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I had always separated "this" and "interruption." But I moved "Interruption" across the stanza break. Thanks!

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👍🏼 This game was inordinately fun!

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I was once med-evacuated off of Nantucket

I went to the local ER at 9am, my left foot felt like a brick

I had an oclusion in my left poplitial artery

the weather was poor, no helicopter

a fixed wing prop plane to south of Boston

then an ambulance to MA general...

seven practitioners were waiting

I was on the op table by 4 pm...

I got a stent, I'm OK

I got privileged care...

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Damn! On a evac plane! I'm happy you're here!

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It's always a relief when I hear them on ATC and realize they're on a run to get fuel.

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!!!

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