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Gratitude Day – June 2023

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I hope you’re having a beautiful day. ♡
Today we’re celebrating another JohnnyO Gratitude Day!

Collective Effervescence

Images by Maike und Björn Bröskamp and Alexa from Pixabay. Graphic design by Niki Flow.
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Gratitude Day – May 2023

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Today we’re celebrating another JohnnyO Gratitude Day!

This is a 5-minute excerpt of a 35-minute interview by Arnie Carter with John Olander, our first generous poet on under1000skies.org. Features two of John’s poems, “Hello Fear” and the first poem John ever wrote six years ago, “History Shelf.” John talks candidly about his life on the street, his addiction, what he loves about being a poet, and how he has triumphed since. Congrats, John! Thank you so much.

Transcription below.

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Gems 9.29

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Here, in celebration is the fourth of seven ELS ¤ Gems ¤

This is the longest of my ballads and includes the text from my performance at the Sylvanfair Turnleaf Festival in 1996. This was a text-based roleplaying event in the lands of Elanthia. This song and the emote scripts were written the night before the festival. I learned I had been accepted to perform with only one day’s notice, and the material had to be new.

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