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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Journalists Revealing the World” (written on National Hug a Newsperson Day), “Just Read a Book” (written during the second full week of April, during National Library Week), and “Karma and Lollipops” (written on Tangible Karma Day, which falls on the first Saturday in April) live 4/20/19 at “Poetry Aloud” (on a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Journalists Revealing the World” (written on National Hug a Newsperson Day), “Just Read a Book” (written during the second full week of April, during National Library Week), and “Karma and Lollipops” (written on Tangible Karma Day, which falls on the first Saturday in April) live 4/20/19 at “Poetry Aloud” (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; Hue Cycling filter).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Journalists Revealing the World” (written on National Hug a Newsperson Day), “Just Read a Book” (written during the second full week of April, during National Library Week), and “Karma and Lollipops” (written on Tangible Karma Day, which falls on the first Saturday in April) live 4/20/19 at “Poetry Aloud” (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; Posterize filter).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Journalists Revealing the World” (written on National Hug a Newsperson Day), “Just Read a Book” (written during the second full week of April, during National Library Week), and “Karma and Lollipops” (written on Tangible Karma Day, which falls on the first Saturday in April) live 4/20/19 at “Poetry Aloud” (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; Sepia Tome filter).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her “Journeys” poetry book feature for “Thirsty Thursday 8/15/19 in Dripping Springs”, TX, with her poem “Journeys on a Train” as the intro poem to her feature, then her poems “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed”, “Valentine’s Day, Every Day”, “Each Trigger Pull”, “Quilled for Poets”, and “Karma and Lollipops” from her poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” in part one of her feature. Then she read her poems “haiku (poet)”, “unbounded”, “oceans”, “eyes”, “Ends of the Earth”, “Xystus to Foundation”, and “Eternal Never Ending Now” from her poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry”, then she closes her feature with her poem “Verdant Green” (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in her “Journeys” poetry book feature for “Thirsty Thursday 8/15/19 in Dripping Springs”, TX, with her poem “Journeys on a Train” as the intro poem to her feature, then her poems “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed”, “Valentine’s Day, Every Day”, “Each Trigger Pull”, “Quilled for Poets”, and “Karma and Lollipops” from her poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” in part one of her feature. Then she read her poems “haiku (poet)”, “unbounded”, “oceans”, “eyes”, “Ends of the Earth”, “Xystus to Foundation”, and “Eternal Never Ending Now” from her poetry book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry”, then she closes her feature with her poem “Verdant Green” (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in part one her “Journeys” poetry book feature for “Thirsty Thursday 8/15/19 in Dripping Springs”, TX, with her poem “Journeys on a Train” as the intro poem to her feature, then her poems “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed”, “Valentine’s Day, Every Day”, “Each Trigger Pull”, “Quilled for Poets”, and “Karma and Lollipops” from her book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers in part one her “Journeys” poetry book feature for “Thirsty Thursday 8/15/19 in Dripping Springs”, TX, with her poem “Journeys on a Train” as the intro poem to her feature, then her poems “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed”, “Valentine’s Day, Every Day”, “Each Trigger Pull”, “Quilled for Poets”, and “Karma and Lollipops” from her book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video 8/17/19 of Janet Kuypers reading her “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” poems “Valentine’s Day, Every Day”, “Each Trigger Pull”, “Quilled for Poets” and “Karma and Lollipops” (that were all read during her “Journeys” feature at Thirsty Thursday 8/15/19 in Dripping Springs)as she was guest-hosting the Austin “Open Mic Showcase” at Recycled Reads (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video 8/17/19 of Janet Kuypers reading her “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” poems “Valentine’s Day, Every Day”, “Each Trigger Pull”, “Quilled for Poets” and “Karma and Lollipops” (that were all read during her “Journeys” feature at Thirsty Thursday 8/15/19 in Dripping Springs)as she was guest-hosting the Austin “Open Mic Showcase” at Recycled Reads (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Order in the Chaos” from her book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry”, her her Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poem “Iron, Filtered In” (#26, Fe), and her poem “Karma and Lollipops” from her book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” at Austinn’s Open Mic Showcase 9/21/19 at Recycles Reads (from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Order in the Chaos” from her book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry”, her her Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poem “Iron, Filtered In” (#26, Fe), and her poem “Karma and Lollipops” from her book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” at Austinn’s Open Mic Showcase 9/21/19 at Recycles Reads (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; Sepia).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Down in the Dirt 4/20 v170 Amazon book “Formative” poems “Xenon & PTSD, to Fight that Spiral”, “Quartermaster General, Burying Bodies”, “Quarrel over the Constitution”, “Eat Your Words”, “Zones of Comfort and Taking a Chance”, and “Karma and Lollipops” during the “Poetic License open mic 4/5/20 home edition” she hosted in Austin, but globally through a Facebook event page (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Down in the Dirt 4/20 v170 Amazon book “Formative” poems “Xenon & PTSD, to Fight that Spiral”, “Quartermaster General, Burying Bodies”, “Quarrel over the Constitution”, “Eat Your Words”, “Zones of Comfort and Taking a Chance”, and “Karma and Lollipops” during the “Poetic License open mic 4/5/20 home edition” she hosted in Austin, but globally through a Facebook event page (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

See YouTube video from 4/26/20 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Xenon & PTSD, to Fight that Spiral”, then “Quartermaster General, Burying Bodies”, “Quarrel over the Constitution”, “Eat Your Words”, “Zones of Comfort and Taking a Chance”, and “Karma and Lollipops” from the v170 “Formative” section of the Down in the Dirt magazine February-Aril 2020 issue collection book “Foundations” for “The 2020 #poetrybomb” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

See Facebook streaming video live from 4/26/20 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Xenon & PTSD, to Fight that Spiral”, then “Quartermaster General, Burying Bodies”, “Quarrel over the Constitution”, “Eat Your Words”, “Zones of Comfort and Taking a Chance”, and “Karma and Lollipops” from the v170 “Formative” section of the Down in the Dirt magazine February-Aril 2020 issue collection book “Foundations” for “The 2020 #poetrybomb” (Samsung S9).

See a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Xenon & PTSD, to Fight that Spiral”, “Quartermaster General, Burying Bodies”, “Quarrel over the Constitution”, “Eat Your Words”, “Zones of Comfort and Taking a Chance”, “Karma and Lollipops” from the v170 “Formative” section of the Down in the Dirt 2-4 2020 collection book “Foundations” for The Café Gallery 9/29/20 Book Reading in The Café Gallery 2020 book reading series (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Xenon & PTSD, to Fight that Spiral”, “Quartermaster General, Burying Bodies”, “Quarrel over the Constitution”, “Eat Your Words”, “Zones of Comfort and Taking a Chance”, “Karma and Lollipops” from the v170 “Formative” section of the Down in the Dirt 2-4 2020 collection book “Foundations” for The Café Gallery 9/29/20 Book Reading in The Café Gallery 2020 book reading series (from a Samsung S9 camera).

Karma and Lollipops Janet Kuypers 4/8/19, written on Tangible Karma Day, which falls on the first Saturday in April When we were about to check out of our hotel this weekend, the woman at the registry stopped us, handed us two embossed bunny lollipops, and said “Happy Easter!” Even though Easter was weeks away, I said thank you, then went to their breakfast. While he got coffee and I got orange juice and yogurt, he then pointed out the mom seated with her two little boys eating. I looked at the lollipops still in my hand, walked over to them, and asked if it was okay to give her boys these two lollipops. She smiled and said yes to these plastic-wrapped lollipops, but since I thought breakfast might not be the nest time for candy, I gave the mother the lollipops, then got the last of my food with my luggage before we got on the road again. People get high and mighty with their phrases, “do unto others as you’d have them do unto you”, “you reap what you sow”, “what goes around comes around”, or even “paying it forward”, but these random acts of kindness, this tangible karma, all pretty much amounts to the same basic truth: what you do, the energy you put out into the world, will come back to you. The added bonus for tangible karma is that while doing good for someone else, it makes you feel good too. But if karma is true and good things come to you because of the good you do, then these insignificant acts of kindness are tangible proof — evidence for exactly what you can do. Because the nice thing with Karma is that all that goodness will always come back to you.

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