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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “No Bother” from the Down in the Dirt 10/20 v176 book “The End of the World” during the “Poetic License virtual open mic 10/4/2” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “No Bother” from the Down in the Dirt 10/20 v176 book “The End of the World” during the “Poetic License virtual open mic 10/4/2” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (video filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

See a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “One Would be Chosen” (written 10/12 for the 1492 date Christopher Columbus Discovers America), “Farmer” and “Verdant Green” (for 10/12, National Farmers Day), “Vacuum of Space” (written 10/11, on and for the day in 1984 when astronaut Kathryn D. Sullivan boarded the Space Shuttle Challenger as the first American woman to perform a space walk), “No Bother” (written 10/13, on and for Good Samaritan Day), “Valkyrie attempts” (written 10/14 on 1944 date of the suicide of Erwin Rommel), “Everyone Will React” (written the 3rd Tuesday of October, on and for National Face Your Fears Day), “Know they are Loved” (written 10/16, on and for Global Cat Day), “You Don’t Expect It” (written 10/17, on and for World Trauma Day), “Violent Endeavour” (written 10/18, on the 1967 date the first space probe entered another planet’s atmosphere (Soviet Venera 4 to Venus), “Know they are Loved”, and “Every Day is Sweetest Day” (written the 3rd Saturday of October, on and for Sweetest Day) from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” for The Café Gallery 10/20/20 Book Reading in The Café Gallery 2020 book reading series (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “One Would be Chosen”, “Farmer”, “Verdant Green”, “Vacuum of Space”, “No Bother”, “Valkyrie attempts”, “Everyone Will React”, “Know they are Loved”, “You Don’t Expect It”, “Violent Endeavour”, and “Every Day is Sweetest Day” from the Janet Kuypers poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume Two: July-December)” for The Café Gallery 10/20/20 Book Reading in The Café Gallery 2020 book reading series (this video was filmed and streamed live from a Samsung S9 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Valkyrie attempts”, “Kill with Impunity”, “No Bother”, “Noble Cause”, and “One hundred-fifty years. What did we learn.” from the v176 book “The End of the World” installment of the Down in the Dirt issue collection book “Late Frost” 1/6/21, during the usual time for Austin’s “Community Poetry” open mic (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers   #janetkuyperspoetry   #janetkuypersbookreading

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Valkyrie attempts”, “Kill with Impunity”, “No Bother”, “Noble Cause”, and “One hundred-fifty years. What did we learn.” from the v176 book “The End of the World” installment of the Down in the Dirt issue collection book “Late Frost” 1/6/21, during the usual time for Austin’s “Community Poetry” open mic (this video was filmed and streamed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuypers   #janetkuyperspoetry   #janetkuypersbookreading

No Bother Janet Kuypers 10/13/19, written on Good Samaritan Day While visiting family in southwest Florida in my teen years, I sat outside in the sun next to the public pool until I heard splashing. I opened my eyes, a man was teaching his son how to swim — they, like me, visited family here in the heat during holiday season. I wanted to cool off in this public pool, as this forgiving father was trying to teach his fifteen-year-old special needs son how to swim a lap. Now, I swim, and I felt exasperated that they both struggled so. So when I got in the pool, I asked the father if I could try to help teach his boy to swim. I think I caught him off guard, hesitant but hopeful, so I talked to his son about swimming the width of the shallow end. I think he knew when to turn his head to get some air, but he was lost on what to do with his arms. “Your hands are buckets,” I told him, “so arc your arms and scoop that water past you.” And pretty soon he was getting the hang of swimming, and fought the water less, so I enjoyed the pool, now in silence, before I went on my way. Whenever that father came back to visit and would see me there, he would thank me profusely for what I did that day. But... I knew how to swim, and it was no bother. # I think people think of doing things like this at times like this, but they never act on it. Their thoughts into reality, and the things is, they can happen, if you just act on what you believe, and you’ll see how much betterBR> life can feel while doing these small acts.

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