Only by paying humble, loving attention to a teacher – in person, through books, or praying beside their grave – can a student receive the baraka that emanates from them.
Frankly, my primary audience is probably white bleeding heart liberals -- as my Dad used to call them, but I've been humbled by the attention and respect that I've received by Black communities in Seattle, Oakland, Los Angeles, and New York City.
If anything, it's the attention to humble detail that is his poetry's most disarming feature.
Hamdi Shabiu is an almost excessively humble man, grateful for attention, quick to provide coffee and a seat in the one warm room of the poor little house he and his family occupy in the Kosovo town of Vitina.
This is in absolute contradistinction to the old French way, which enshrined the belief that cooking was a transformational act: any foodstuff, no matter how humble, could, through loving attention, long hours of simmering and a great deal of skill (and butter), be turned into something heart-stoppingly delicious.
Being humble enough to pay attention to the signals that are there if we know where and how to look, and being smart enough to prepare for what we think will never happen can make us resilient — whatever the volcano decides to do next time.
As the story of someone who dedicated a large part of a lifetime to working on the puzzle of flight while living in humble circumstances, Whitehead deserves attention and recognition.
Smith can execute the surreal juxtapositions that Beefheart lived on: "See a green goblin redhead, redhead make a grab for the book of prayers / Do anything for a bit of attention, get humbled in Iceland" is a non sequitur from "Iceland," from 1982, that could fit on most Beefheart albums.
Summers is both amazed and humbled by the ongoing attention from those who grew up with the show, but it wasn't always that way.
But for years the sight of a plain potato — so humble, unpromising, and eager for attention — filled me with kitchen jitters.
