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Grateful

By Phebe Phillips 1 Comment

Banner for Phebe's Blog post for Thanksgiving 2020. It is a photo of two pumpkins and the word Grateful.

Happy Thanksgiving! We have each learned a lot this year, and probably found gratitude for some unexpected things. Mac and I send you our best wishes for this holiday season.

Here are links to a few past posts that may be helpful to you this season.

  • Tulips on the Table
  • My Favorite Cranberry Sauce
  • What is Biodynamic Wine
  • It’s Time to Make the Elderberry Syrup

What Are You Doing This Saturday?

My good friend, and editor, Professor Peter Hoheisel will be a guest on the radio show, Art Connection of East Texas. Peter is a wonderful poet and writer. He’s a mesmerizing storyteller of a beautiful style of lyrical poetry.

His latest book, South to the Rio Grande carries you on his journey as he moves from Michigan to the East Texas town of Jacksonville. Page after page you make the journey with him. If you are in Tyler, Texas, his book is available at Barnes & Noble in Tyler, Texas, and on Amazon.

You may hear his interview, and a few poems this Saturday morning, Thanksgiving weekend, at 8 a.m. on the radio station Tyler KTBB, 97.5 FM or AM 600. If you are not in the area you may stream it HERE.

The photo below is when Peter and I were on the show two years ago.

A poetry book, by Peter Hoheisel

A poetry book, by Peter Hoheisel.

This is my copy with my favorite poems tagged.

Here’s the blurb I wrote. It’s featured on the back cover.

“…we weep for what was not, because we think we know what could have been” is a line that stops a soul-searcher—dead. Poetry arrives from heart silence, and it good, moves the reader into contemplative silence. Peter Hoheisel shares his journey with fluid words and such lyrical style that you are carried with him. With this work you can taste the Diet Coke, smell the East Texas Pine, and hear the shuddering explosion of Spaceship Colombia as it leaves seven American heroes scattered over the land. This book engages the reader, delivering a journey worth taking—especially into personal, contemplative silence.

~Phebe Phillips, author of Why Me? Positive Verse for Loss and Sadness. Contributor to The Literary Catcast Podcast.

The New Website for The Literary Catcast Podcast is Available.

I’ve made it very easy to hear ALL podcast episodes. The new website is set up like a blog. The opening home page features a scroll of each episode. Click it open and you will find a Play Arrow. You no longer are required to have apps for Apple Podcasts, or Spotify, or any others. Just come directly to the website, The Literary Catcast.

Photo of Phebe Phillips in a recording studio.

Phebe Phillips in her recording area.

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  1. Mac says

    November 24, 2020 at 6:42 pm

    Thank you for the Thanksgiving message!

    Reply

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Phebe Phillips, 2021, Podcaster, Cat Lover, Poet, Storyteller

Phebe Phillips is best known for whimsical plush toys that filled the shelves of Neiman Marcus, FAO, and many fine retailers for 25-years. Today, she creates The Literary Catcast Podcast—dedicated to the preservation of vintage books and writings with cats as main characters, bringing them into the modern awareness of a podcast. She writes poetry and short essays for publication in journals. She has two upcoming books, Sleeping With Louie—a daughter’s soul journey as an only child of a mother with Borderline Personality Disorder, who was also an only child, and Upper East Side of The Pines—growing up in East Texas during the sweetness of the 1960s. She is married to Mac. They live with six cats! For now, they live in Dallas, Texas until they move deep into the East Texas piney woods in 2022.

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