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Looking for DEIs

by Thomas Davis

I’ve been looking around for DEIs,
But I haven’t found any yet.
I thought at first, they were like gremlins,
Little people-like creatures that mostly looked ugly.
I know they are black, brown, yellow, and woman,
But every black, brown, yellow, and woman I know
Wouldn’t answer to, “Come here, DEI,”
Any more than I would,
And anyway, even a gremlin
Wouldn’t crash a plane and helicopter
With seventy-six people on board,
Would they?

I thought about asking our congressman,
Or maybe our President,
To draw me a picture of a DEI
So I’d recognize one when I saw one,
But then I thought to myself,
What if they are a DEI hire in disguise?
Can’t anybody paint themselves up
as a white Christian man?
What then?

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The Woman and the Whale by Ethel Mortenson Davis

Four Windows Press has just released Ethel Mortenson Davis’s eighth book of poetry along with a magnificent cover designed by the poet. The book is available at amazon.com and other online retailers as well as through bookstores. It is carried by Novel Bay and Otherworlds bookstores in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin.

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Transcendence

a pastel by Ethel Mortenson Davis

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Honoring

by Ethel Mortenson Davis

She had to take her nursing infant 
with her to her final exam
because the babysitter hadn’t shown up.

The professor threw her out,
but she completed her degree
and has been teaching for thirty years.

Now she is facing another exam,
one called cancer.

We, as mothers, daughters, and grandmothers,
are connected through our wombs.
We will stand with her, all of us together.
No one will throw her out.

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Sangre de Cristo

a pastel by Ethel Mortenson Davis

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Article Appearing in Nine Wisconsin Newspapers

https://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/story/news/2021/01/28/sturgeon-bay-author-pens-book-poems-tribal-college-movement/4259575001/

This above article is about my newest book, Meditation on Ceremonies of Beginnings. John Looker wrote a great review of the book too:

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Podcast About Leadership

Christine Reidhead has just informed me that The Los Angeles Tribune has put a second podcast I did with Christine on leadership on its website’s front page. We did ten of these in total, and the Tribune has told Christine that they have reviewed all ten and will be running all ten of them. How Christine talks me into these things sort of mystifies me, and then how she manages to get major national coverage for them amazes me even more. Her work at Navajo Technical University in the Navajo Nation as the head of the business department is amazing. Her list of scholarly publications in business journals keeps growing. Her founding of Afrika Rising!, a non-profit that works in Africa, has earned her multiple significant honors. She is much more extraordinary than I am. I have no idea how many magazines have had her on their front cover. I just know that it has been a lot of them. The Tribune also ran a long article about the second podcast in the ten podcast series to accompany the podcast’s availability. Here’s the link:
https://thelosangelestribune.com/2020/11/10/tom-davis-reveals-qualities-of-leadership-in-the-latest-podcast-with-christine-reidhead/?fbclid=IwAR1H9d1M8hatVEdg3XfJknSloDRnLouuZSuLou-thP0PBa3x8DxH0jHvbDU

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New Logo for a new website

Ethel and I have put up a new website for the small publishing effort, Four Windows Press, we keep developing. Our granddaughter, Phoebe Wood, has come up with a logo for the website, which is located at http://www.fourwindowspress1.com. Ethel likes the logo as a work of art!

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Whipped Cream

after 11 inches of new snow

by Ethel Mortenson Davis

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Little Bird

by Ethel Mortenson Davis

for April Chischilly

Little bird,
with wound on her chest,
comes to my water
each day.

Other birds
push her back,
but she is steadfast and stays.
She reminds me of you.

The first sunlight
that warms my body
in the early spring
after a long, cold winter
reminds me of you.

This morning, as the red, glowing mushroom
shone out from the dark forest floor,
an orange- red like no other,
it, too,
reminds me of you.

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