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Eduardo Rey Brummel

Salida, Colroado

Eduardo Rey Brummel’s writing has appeared in places such as High Country News, Colorado Central, Desert Call, and others. He has been a regular attendee at Talking Gourds events in San Miguel County for the last decade, often traveling 5 hours to attend a poetry reading, particularly of his dear friend Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer.

For the last sixteen years, he has lived on the Eastern Slope, half an hour from the top of the Continental Divide. Learn more at his website: writemorenow.wordpress.com

Notes to Self

by Eduardo Rey Brummel

You are thoroughly loved

 Even when you feel unlovable.

You should not believe

 Everything you believe about yourself.

They’re most likely all untrue

 Most of the things you think of you.

You are more credible than

 You give yourself credit for.

It shouldn’t be that you matter

 More to others than to yourself.

Sometimes you are too close

 To be able to see yourself clearly.

You may never realize

 Just how good you truly are.

Remember: All of this

 Is on a need-to-know basis.

When terra firma loses your feet

 Re-ground yourself by remembering these.