"Good Vibes Only!!!" #goodvibes #only #positiveenergy #positivethinking #positivevibes #everyday #everydayeverywhere #namaste #magic

I've included a picture of the book cover that my employer Mother Teresa Hospice / Progressive Home Health has just published (literally 2 days ago it was completed) comprised of selected poems I wrote with local area nursing home residents from when I started doing the poetry workshops January 31, 2016 - December 2016 which also includes testimonials form residents, family members of residents & staff members at the facilities.
- in my Pittsburgh Poetry Workshops I conduct around greater metropolitan #Pittsburgh for long term care nursing home residents where we read and write poetry together - I have used many triggers to engage + stimulate memory & new ideas including by referencing Stephen Foster, reading his bio & playing his music. I've also referenced the Chatter Box at the William Penn Hotel and how Count Basie was broadcasted live from there to the world and I've used his music as well as other hot & sweet big band music such as "The Old LampLighter" and "The Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy."
#HurricaneRain written July 16, 2005 by me & published on September 26, 2005 on mystrawhat.com in e-book Every Day Media #Christie
Miss You Dad 8/17/17 Dad: Obituary: John A. Conte Prominent Beaver County lawyer consulted on Jack Ruby's Defense
http://theneweverydaymedia.blogspot.com/2014/05/piece-in-pittsburghpostgazette-today-on.html?m=1

Great time yesterday w/residents @ Joseph Edwards Apartments in Rochester! Enjoyed group & especially stand-up bass guitar player = Our Poem (1 poem of 2 poems in less than an hour)
#progressivehomehealth #poetryworkshops #engaging #stimulating #healthcare #passion #compassion #empathy #brainactivity #neuroscience #triggers #memories❤ #newideas #contributing #voices #everydaypeople #everyday #poet #amwriting #pmwriting #therapy #breakingthrough #poetryman
"Sister Grace Marie" _ new June 2017 poem
Our library at Mt. Gallitzin Academy
Had a door of wood and glass
With a screen door too
The smell of the air with the class
When we sat on the outside chairs
Books containing great stories
People & places & their histories
School friends maybe I dared
Learning the card catalogues
A system I still use to this day
Gratefully organizing memories
Written By: John Conte
mystrawhat.com 6/3017 #newpoetry #everyday #memories❤ #SisterGraceMarie #catholicschoolkids #friends #library #poet
"Muted Sunlight"
Muted sun at dawn
A bird chirping
Diesel engine running
Two sounds trying
Accents from hissing
Car tires and rain
Rolling by moving on
Inside the town
We walk around
Listening to sounds
Washing away the dirty
Remnants of a hurricane
Who killed a 10 yr old
In Alabama - Cindy
Lordy it was windy
In water muted sunlight
Colored bulbs on display
Inside a store window
Witness to misty rain
And outlines of hills
Clock tower in fog
Recalling he was once
A favored court jester to
The king until he died
Then he realized he
Was alone among spies
Feeling so alone and
Looking for a home
Every place he roamed
The time was so real
Nothing sugar coated
But a paid for trip
And the family seal
Securing the deal
St. Stephen on stand by
In the garden with a rose
By the muted sun he goes
7:00 a.m.
June 23, 2017
John Conte
#muted #sunlight #sun #rain #garden #rose #saintstephen #poet #newpoem #poetry #amwriting #writersofinstagram #goodvibes #instapoets #instabeauty #everyday #newmediaart #grateful

To @DeannaMConte
A June day
20yrs ago today
Standing in Saulsalito
At the San Francisco Bay
Sure we had finally found
What we needed to know
- Johnny mystrawhat.com
@visitcalifornia #sausalito #sanfrancisco #california #bayarea #sailing #boating #shiplife #twentyyearsandcounting #newpoetry #amwriting #instapoets #newmediaart #mountains #town #city #sea #lostlove #travel #lifestyle #directions

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