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Poet Healed
Poet Healed
Poet Healed
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This selection of writings is mostly from the first two years of my participation in LAMP at the Sutter Resource Center’s Library. Many of them are in response to prompts involving an object or a poem. I believe that Chip, as group leader and one of Pat Schneider’s disciples, garnered quite a few exercises from her book, Writing Alone and With Others. Her workshops and the Amherst Artists and Writers Group also inspired him. Other writings are in response to people and events of the time that I was able to express as a writer. Some of the inspirations for these writings are a phrase or a line from a poem; some are discussed in the footnotes.
The writings are somewhat loosely organized according to the following themes: Health Issues, Autobiographical, Family and Friends, and Life and Living.
In the spirit of Pat Schneider and Chip Spann, I have observed and now report—in writing. Most of these writings are minimally edited, although I do include some before and after writings. There are a few that are incomplete; they are the beginnings of stories that you might see again later.
I invite you to join me in my journey toward wholeness. If you find that you are drawn to a particular piece, please let me know. For the enjoyment of copy editors, I have left a few errors.

LanguageEnglish
PublisherJohn Crandall
Release dateFeb 7, 2012
ISBN9781452459844
Poet Healed
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John Crandall

My biography, taken from “Poet Healed.” John Crandall was born July 2, 1953, in the hospital (converted from a pig farm) at the Clovis Air Force Base in Clovis, New Mexico. As an Air Force brat, he lived in New Mexico, South Carolina, Northern and Southern Michigan, Oregon and Japan. As the eldest child of six in a military family, he assumed responsibility for his brother and sisters, as well as his mother, when his father was stationed elsewhere. John has spent time as a surgical nurse, fire systems engineer, mason, electronics technician in the Air Force, refrigeration engineer, teacher, and executive director of a non-profit counseling agency that he founded. His education includes a Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology, and Doctorate-level Psychology courses. He has also attended additional classes and workshops in art, pottery, blacksmithing, foundry techniques, domestic violence, fire suppression, and writing. Semi-retired, John is focusing on artistic endeavors. His interest in art has extended to metal casting (bronze, aluminum and iron) and blacksmithing. He is most happy when combining different media in his sculpture or learning new techniques. John continues adding to his repertoire through constant experimentation and education. New to writing, he has discovered a penchant for it and enjoys poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction. John currently lives in Sacramento with his wife Denise, their dogs Molly and Trixie and the kitty Herman. Amherst Writers and Artists (AWA) Affiliation John Crandall holds a master’s degree in Counseling Psychology. He has participated in Sutterwriters since September 2003 and also facilitates anger management groups. John is the author of Poet Healed, published by LAMP in 2005. John is an AWA Affiliate, certified to lead workshops in the AWA method as described in Writing Alone & With Others by Pat Schneider, Oxford University Press.

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    Poet Healed - John Crandall

    Poet Healed

    A collection of writings

    By

    John Crandall

    fireartsofsacramento.com

    Copyright John Crandall 2005

    Smashword Edition

    Published By Crandall Writers on Smashwords

    Thank you for downloading this eBook. A portion ($5.00) of the proceeds from the sale of this book will be donated to the Sutter Medical Center, Sacramento, Resource Library.

    This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

    This book contains works of fiction as well as those that are autobiographical. The autobiographical works reflect the author’s remembrance of events only and may not be true to the memories of others.

    Mature Reading Material

    -best read in smaller doses-

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    a broken mirror

    a beam of sunlight

    darkness vanquished

    ignorance flees

    another beam of sunlight

    another darkness vanquished

    again ignorance flees

    break my mirror

    pass around the pieces

    illuminate the darkness

    of others

    join me

    help me

    heal

    Table of Contents

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    Table of Contents

    Forward

    Acknowledgements

    Introduction

    Chapter 1 - Health Issues

    The Question

    We Become What We Pay Attention To

    Work In Progress

    Cold

    Quiet 1

    Quiet 2

    When the Doctor Told Me I was Ill

    Disgusted

    You Took Aim

    There is a Pain

    In Spite of Evidence to the Contrary

    He Was a Master of the Occult

    Depression

    On Dieting

    Should I Eat a Cookie?

    Boom

    Death Toys

    The Sun has Deigned to Make an Appearance

    Questions

    Getting Old

    Needing Nothing

    Quilt

    Alone

    Fighting

    Observe and Report

    What Skeleton of Dust?

    Please Wait

    I Am Here, Yet

    Frog Soup

    The Joke

    Should He?

    I Want to Be Remembered

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    Chapter 2 - Autobiographical

    Where Are You From (Coming From?)

    Names 1

    Names 2

    Things I had Forgotten

    Mud Puddle

    Summer of 1956

    Japanese Earthquake--a photograph

    Fishing Trip

    Happier Memories

    I Will Not Forget My First Brain Concussion

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    Chapter 3 - Families and Friends

    Dining Time

    Who to Tell What?

    Dreams and Memories

    Dreamers Dreaming Dreams

    Cancer

    Who

    Lynne Sat There Crying

    whwhwhwhwhweeeeeddtt

    Peace Comes

    A Metamorphosis

    The Piano

    For Seventy Years

    Family Secrets

    Secrets, Killing Secrets

    Patrick James Martin

    Intake

    I Cannot Remember my First Love

    Helping Others, We Say Thank You

    I hope I Die Warmed by the Life I Tried to Live

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    Chapter 4 - Life and Living

    Why Are You Here

    Quilting

    I Chose Not to be Kind Today

    Marta Sat with Her Head Thrown Back

    Famous

    Magic Words

    On Becoming

    Times of Quiet and Peace

    Objects

    He Was Ready to Go

    Mankind at Large Marches to the Tap Tap Tap of a Drummer

    The Heart Remains Broken

    Why?

    What is LAMP

    The Author

    Other Lamp Books

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    For

    my late cousin,

    Bonnie Salma

    *****

    Foreword

    Struck with angina / A heart loses its magnetism / It is broken

    John Crandall, from The Heart Remains Broken

    Some say we write to find out what we are thinking; John Crandall writes to embrace a fuller acceptance of himself and in so doing takes us along for the ride. These days it’s unusual to find someone who seeks healing from heart disease through writing. John Crandall is such a man: blacksmith, bookbinder, anger management counselor, engineer, electronics tech, and healer.

    He didn’t consider himself a writer when he joined Sutterwriters, a writing group for patients, caretakers and loved ones, in September 2003, and little did he or we know that he

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