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15 Jun Poets’ Corner: Feela for Father’s Day
My dear dad taught his girls love and respect could not, should not, be turned on and off like a light switch according to a date on a calendar – like Father’s Day. That said, David Feela‘s tribute to his father, the man’s surrogate today,...
10 May Poets’ Corner: Feela for Mother’s Day
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Mother’s Day was first suggested in 1872 by Julia Ward Howe (who wrote the words to the “Battle Hymn of the Republic”) as a day dedicated to peace. In 1907, Philadelphian Ana Jarvis began a campaign to establish a national Mother’s Day. She persuaded her...
22 Dec Poets’ Corner: Feela for Xmas
Buried in the back of our closets alongside the battered tinsel star, the good silver, and great grandma’s dishes lie reminders of the holidays – for better or for worse. Those memories of Xmases past are as persistent as Santa myths– and as unavoidable as carols, “It’s...
15 Jun Poet’s Corner: Feela for Father’s Day, Legends of My Fall
As we post tributes for Father’s Day, I hold word treasures like this from TIO regular contributor David Feela to my heart. We lost our father on Mothers’ Day, a cruel sleight of Nature since, in my family, we never celebrated Hallmark holidays. Love and...
21 Dec Poets’ Corner: Feela on Star Power, Xmas Star & Beyond
The Star of Bethlehem – often just called the Christmas Star – is a major symbol of the holiday season throughout the world. Picture the silhouettes of three regal men on camels. They are gazing across gently rolling hills or dunes of white, to a...
02 Sep Poets’ Corner: Feela on Labor Day, One Last Hurrah
Labor Day weekend in Telluride twins with the Telluride Film Festival. Elsewhere it is four days that mark the end of summer. Designated a holiday since 1884, Labor Day was instituted to celebrate the contributions of labor to the national welfare of the U.S. In the current climate...
16 Jun Poets’ Corner: Feela for Father’s Day
To honor the memory of his father – and friend who was a father who just past – on Father’s Day, David Feela choose to continue a tradition scholars say might have emerged from Babylonian ruins, where upon a 4,000 years ago, a boy named Elmesu...
12 May Poets’ Corner: Feela for Mother’s Day (In Memorium)
Mother’s Day holds a wholly different meaning for anyone whose mom has passed away. Poems become tributes and hope to offer comfort – like this one from poet (and regular Telluride Inside… and Out contributor) David Feela: “This is a poem of memory that tries to look...