Kimberly Burnham, here. I am the co-creator of The Creating Calm Network Publishing Group and an Alternative Medicine Practitioner in private practice. 25 Health, Life and Science Books on Amazon Author's Page ... Including photographs, anthology chapters, poems and book I have written, I just reached 25 books on my Amazon Author's page. It is a good history for a publisher (Ann White and I started the Creating Calm Network Publishing Group) http://www.creatingcalmnetworkpublishinggroup.com/services.html and Amazon Author's Page http://www.amazon.com/Kimberly-Burnham/e/B0054RZ4A0 I would love to help you feel better, move with more easy and think more clearly. If you have a health issue, contact me to see how I can help you at http:///www.KimberlyBurnhamPhD.com If you have a book in you longing to come out onto Amazon and the world stage, I can help. Give me a call to see what specials we have running over at the Creating Calm Network Publishing Group. Here is my winning entry in the 2013 SageUSA LGBTQ Story Contest.

1. Want some help telling your story? At the Creating Calm Network
Publishing Group we can help you get your story out into the world,
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Red, White, Blue, and Yellow by Kimberly Burnham
Winner of the 2013 SAGE USA LGBT Story Contest
http://sageusa.org/programs/sagestory-contest.cfm
Many things are frightening
on a Cross USA bicycle ride
a truck may come within inches
seeming for a moment not to see me
or a car that doesn't want to share
the road full of cracks and pot holes
visibility equals life
so does vigilance
Awareness and attention keep me alive
on this journey
even so I am scraped up from a fall
my attention lapsed
as I crossed a railroad track.
my concentration, my focus on the journey
may wander from time to time
but me, I am not hard to see
in my red, white, and blue Hazon jersey
mile after mile from Seattle to Washington, DC
People can see who I am
and I wonder about discrimination

2. our "People of the Bike" jerseys
clearly marking us as Jews
we ride through rural America,
where white church steeples dot the landscape
conservative Christian billboards scream messages
then across the Mississippi
into the diversity of the densely populated East.
Completely white my hair peaks out
from under my bicycle helmet
I wondered if I might die
before my 56th birthday in Minnesota
at the half way mark across America.
looking at me anyone can see
the years of experience before this ride
Experiences in communities,
in the world,
in America teach me
how to create a sense of safety
to live passionately
find community
visibility equals life
waves of emotion
as my attention flows to those around me
finding the common ground
sharing the road along the way
My bicycle marked with symbols
my choice, a rainbow flag
a blue square with parallel yellow rectangles
the equality sign of the Human Rights Campaign
I am riding out in rural America
Okay, I'll give you I am a little scared

3. it's a little daunting to think
I might be the target of hate
but proud of my choices
and this country in which
I can choose whom to love
and wear a giant yellow and blue equals sign
on my back knowing
some people will recognize
I am a lesbian
The ones that don't know
the symbols on my sleeve
though not part of my community
my chosen family
still they are welcome to join me
on the crossing as I look
for how we can connect
and be seen together because
visibility equals life.
SAGE Story is a national digital storytelling program for lesbian,
gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) older adults. The purpose
of the program is to strengthen the storytelling skills—and draw
on the unique life experiences of—LGBT elders to diversify the
public narratives on aging, long-term care and LGBT rights.
SAGE Story offers skill-building workshops in New York City,
maintains an online story booth for digital submissions, and
partners with storytelling experts and policy-based
organizations to bring these stories into public conversation.
SAGE Story is led by Services & Advocacy for GLBT Elders
(SAGE), and is made possible through the generous support of
the AARP Foundation and The Ford Foundation.