[Editor’s Note: Dr. Hoult is poetess laureate of Culver City.]

[img]1472|right|Janet Hoult||no_popup[/img]I find that I am doing more meditation than ever.

It seems to refocus my mind and provide some relief.
 
Of course, the poetry is a form of meditation for me.  I keep on writing.

Vice Mayor Mehaul O’Leary brought up the idea of naming me the poet laureate.

City Councilman Andy Weissman suggested that City Clerk Martin Cole do research and bring it back to the Council. 

I am now helping Martin do the research.

Councilman Jim Clarke, who had suggested to the Centennial Committee that I could be named the poet laureate for the Centennial, said that the committee agreed that it was up to the city.
 
I am honored that you first recognized me as “Poetess Laureate” of Culver City.
 
[img]2689|left|Eugenia Mansell||no_popup[/img]I am very impressed with the young poet Eugenia Mansell you have been publishing. 

I will try to connect with her, especially since I will be organizing a poetry group at the Senior Center early next year and another at the Julian Dixon Library after the renovations. 

I believe that our city and its citizens have poetic souls. I hope we can get more folks to recognize their potential.
 
I believe you know that poetry saved my life after son David died. 

I was in the depths of depression.

In addition to the Didi Hirsch counseling, beginning to express myself in verse helped me through some of the worst of it. 

I am sending the poems I read at the Council meeting for the recognition of Suicide Prevention Week. 

Dr. Hoult may be contacted at HOULTight@aol.com