Call & Response

The Call: Exercises — Jessica

After each visit, Danny’s physical therapist makes a list of all the exercises they did during the session and gives him “homework” exercises to work on until the next visit. Since he has been receiving therapy since he was two months old, the book is quite full now and it is interesting to look back at the beginning and see how far he’s come.

Response: A List in Verse — Cheryl

I have to admit: when I saw today’s Call, I felt rather restrained. Opening the book of poetry on my desk and reading the next poem listed, though, unlocked a world of possibility. I smiled when I read the list of “essentials” for a nice picnic in a work by Omar Khayam (translated by Edward Fitzgerald):

Here with a loaf of bread beneath the bough,
a flask of wine, a book of verse — and thou
beside me singing in the wilderness —
and wilderness is paradise enow.