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Jennie Smith-Pariola 8/31/25 Jennie Smith-Pariola 8/31/25

Hot Tea

In reading this poem about a little boy in the plains of central Syria being taught by his grandmother how to stir his tea, I was immediately taken back to my own grandparents’ home in the Appalachian foothills of East Tennessee. . . .

Perhaps the World Ends Here

Helen Keller once wrote that, “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched—they must be felt with the heart.” How very true that is. And yet . . .

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Hot Tea

Perhaps the World Ends Here

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