Karly Randolph Pitman

Karly Randolph Pitman

Austin, Texas
I'm a writer, seeker, mother, poet, craftswoman, teacher of all ages, and facilitator. I call the journey of becoming 'growing humankindness' and am awed by the sacredness of healing.
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Nov

Rendezvous in Aisle Twenty

I've often said that my church is The Church of H.E.B. H.E.B is the
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29
Oct

Picking Up the Pieces

Once a month I drive fifteen miles to a church hall in a neighboring town, where kind volunteers stack the
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26
Oct

When You Find a Grocery List in Your Poetry Journal

When people ask me what I do, I tell them I'm a writer. The next question is often
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23
Oct

On A Day When You Don't Feel Enough

Today's poem is for my young friend Liam. Liam is 19, in his first year of community college,
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17
Sep

What Eyes Have Not Seen

This summer brought an unusual gift: a month long, grueling spell of vertigo, when I couldn't close my
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16
Sep

Let + July poetry workshop, Writing Through Illness, with One Art

Many of you know I've had a journey through illness these past few years, since I became ill
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06
Sep

Doppelganger

I spend a lot of time at the pharmacy these days. On any given day, I take 6-7 prescriptions -
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02
Sep

New Math

A few years go I heard a saying from Sufi teacher Hazrat Inayat Khan that continues to teach me -
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30
Aug

Autumnus

Last week our friends came to visit as they took their son to college. The next day, in the early
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22
Aug

Dropping off Your Son at School

Last night we hosted friends from college who'd just dropped off their middle son at college an hour
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