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Fifty-one today
plenty to say.
Fifty-one
write the damn play.
Fifty-one
songs to be sung.
Fifty-one
you've only just begun.
Brother was dead
at fifty-three.
Lesson enough
fifty-one years Amy.
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One afternoon, Amy returned home to find that her ninety-year-old mother with Alzheimer's had instructed the gardener to cut off all of the Mexican sage blossoms that had sprung into a glorious purple sea in her back yard. The bundles lay lifeless on the ground replaced with hacked, barren stocks. Amy’s mother had provided a metaphor for grief, loss, age and wisdom. The image of the purple sage has resonated with Amy since that day and is the name of her Pastoral Counseling workshops.
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About Me
- Amy Luskey-Barth
- Amy Luskey-Barth holds a Masters in Pastoral Counseling from Trinity College of Graduate Studies and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Drama from USC. As a writer, theatre artist, bereavement facilitator, director, and teacher, Amy is passionate about the healing power of storytelling. She has spent thirty three years in educational theatre. Motivated by her own experience with grief and loss, Amy began Purple Sage Arts to help others channel the healing power of their creativity. Her story includes being the primary caregiver for her brother who died of AIDS and for her mother who had Alzheimer’s disease. Her compassion for the bereaved is informed by her experience of the sudden death of her father when she was twenty-two, financial reversal, and the closure of a family business. When Amy returned from Terezin in the Czech Republic, the former Jewish Ghetto, where art and music thrived during the Holocaust she was inspired to employ the power of artistic expression to transform suffering.
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- Lorie Eber Wellness Coaching
- Howard Sherman
- Tuesdayswithamy
- Michael Feinstein
- New York Magazine
- Dead Man Walking Production Blog SMCHS
- Thoughts for the Teaching Artist
- Literary Journal Marketing Tips
- Poetry Foundation
- Poets and Writers
- Loree Brooks Clean Comedy
- Lady in Red
- Redroom
- Stanford Writers Workshop Resources
- Purple Sage Arts
- Educational Theatre Association
- Tri-School Theatre
- Academy of Performing Arts at St. Paul
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