<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Dear Toni,<div>Gosh I wish I could be there for both of your upcoming readings. Being there in person will amplify the impact of your beautiful self and your poetry. I hope you will share how your book is progressing when we next see one another. You are so deeply intuitive and experientially perceptive, I love how you can see and understand what lies behind people's behavior, to the story beneath the surface. Perhaps you can share some of your process as you create a poem.<br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfSignature"><div dir="ltr">I hope you thoroughly enjoy yourself at both readings. </div><div dir="ltr">Love ❤️ </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Sep 22, 2025, at 7:49 AM, Toni Bernbaum via Thespiritexpress <thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">Hello Dear Community….I have been reminded to put this out to those who have asked about when I would be doing public readings again. Let’s face it ….Ukiah is l o n g trek …. so no espectations but just sayin…….<div>And lucky me…..I am also going to be the featured reader in Point Arena on Oct. 16th with some jazz musicians backing me and all the poets for the open mic. Both venues are a bit of</div><div>commute and a big stretch for most but just wanted to put the word out……..with love, T<br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"><div><br><blockquote type="cite">
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</blockquote></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 42pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 10); text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 28pt; font-family: Garamond, serif; color: rgb(118, 113, 113); letter-spacing: 3pt;">PRESENTS<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 42pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 10); text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 34pt; font-family: Garamond, serif; color: rgb(191, 143, 0); letter-spacing: 3pt;">TONI BERNBAUM<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt 99pt; line-height: normal; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 10); text-align: center; text-indent: -99pt;"><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Garamond, serif; color: rgb(191, 143, 0); letter-spacing: 3pt;"><div><cid:clip_image001.jpg></div></span><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Garamond, serif; color: rgb(191, 143, 0); letter-spacing: 3pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: normal; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 10);">Tonijean Bernbaum has been writing and sharing her poems for nearly 20 years in Mendocino County. She has been the featured reader at the monthly poetry gatherings in Pt. Arena and Mendocino and has presented her work in collaboration with singer songwriter Lauren Brown in annual spring concerts at Spirit House in Fort Bragg. Her work has been published in the <i>New Millennium Magazine</i>, <i>The Sun, Sacred Reflections </i>and the<i> North Carolina Women’s Review</i>. Her Poem “Retrieval” has been featured in the northern California traveling poetry show “Rumi’s Caravan.” She is currently working on publishing her first book of poems to be in print, hopefully, before 2026.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: normal; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 10); text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 24pt; font-family: Garamond, serif; color: black; letter-spacing: 1pt;">GRACE HUDSON MUSEUM</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: normal; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 10); text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 24pt; font-family: Garamond, serif; color: black; letter-spacing: 1pt;">THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2025<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: normal; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 10); text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: Garamond, serif; color: black; letter-spacing: 1pt;">7 PM: FEATURED READING<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: normal; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 10); text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: Garamond, serif; color: black; letter-spacing: 1pt;">8 PM: OPEN MIC<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0in; line-height: normal; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 10); text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: Garamond, serif; color: black;">431 South Main Street, Ukiah, CA 95482<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0in; line-height: 17pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 10); text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; color: black;">Suggested donation: $5-$10, Refreshments provided<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: 14pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 10); text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; color: black;">For Information, contact Writers Read Ukiah MC Michael Riedell, innisfreeriedell@gmail.com</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0in 0in 8pt; line-height: normal; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 10); text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Garamond, serif; color: black;">Writers Read happens on the last Thursday of most every month and has been happening in Ukiah since 1999. This reading series is sponsored by Colored Horse Studios, an anonymous local writer, Michael Riedell, Dan Barth, the Poet Laureate Committee of Ukiah, the Grace Hudson Museum and donations.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><br></div><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>Thespiritexpress mailing list</span><br><span>Thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org</span><br><span>https://lists.mcn.org/mailman/listinfo/thespiritexpress</span><br></div></blockquote></div></body></html>