Medical Student Receives William Carlos Williams Poetry Award

I discovered this award and poem today and found it so inspiring, I posted it to two of my blogs. For those of you who follow this blog, William Carlos William was my paternal grandfather's cousin. Both were physicians.

Congratulations to Ms. Wlodarski.....here's a bit from the press release found on the University of Vermont website.

Jennifer Wlodarski has received an Honorable Mention in the 27th annual William Carlos Williams Poetry Competition for her poem "Slow Horse". Open to medical students attending schools of medicine or osteopathy in the United States and Canada, the competition is named in memory of William Carlos Williams, a physician-poet born in 1883 who practiced medicine in his hometown of Rutherford, N.J., while writing and publishing poetry with peers including Ezra Pound.

Slow Horse
Come back and outlast,
Like the slow horse.
All bets are in.
And I've got all my money on myself,
Because someone should.
— Jennifer Wlodarski

In Praise of Daffodils

Last year I blogged about the daffodils at Trader Joe's. Two weeks ago, while standing in the check out line I spotted a shopper with the rubber-banded flowers in hand.

Fast forward to shopping at Fresh and Easy. $1.99 Viola. Instand spring. I love daffodils - I love the way they open up like a fresh new sunshiney day. I love the way there are so streamlined with lovely glossy green stalks.

Halleluljah to daffodils.