  I usually don't put much faith in "signs". You know, looking for guidance in the form of hints from above/below/or beyond. However, when I stumble across two references to the importance of poetry in less than 24 hours - well you gotta stop and take notice.
Yesterday I came upon urlLink Scrolling Forward, Making Sense of Documents in the Digital Age by David M. Levy. For Levy, documents-from cash register receipts to children's notes, greeting cards, and web pages-are "things we have imbued with the ability to speak. " While each kind of document operates within its own limited niche, collectively they work to provide some measure of stable ground in an unstable world.
I starting reading Levy's chapter on Whitman's "Leaves of Grass", and remembered I had purchased a book of Whitman's poetry years ago. It inspired me to go find it - - haven't located it yet. (Hope I didn't give it away - I do things like that. ) Today, one of my favorite blogs, urlLink About Last Night , has a piece on the benefits of good, old-fashioned rote memorization of poetry. I have taken these two "hints" as a sign that I should memorize a poem. Wish me luck! 
