Shawn Callaway Hays
Prolific Tennessean author Shawn Callaway Hays materializes his passion to assist his communities as a life safety educator and as an officer in emergency and rescue services. He received his Bachelor of Arts in philosophy and religion from the University of Tennessee. Shawn Callaway Hays lives in the Ooltewah suburb of Chattanooga with his wife, Laura, and two children, Ivy and Callaway. Follow Shawn Callaway Hays and his similar works at rilkehopkinspress.com. We must realize our reservoirs...See more
Prolific Tennessean author Shawn Callaway Hays materializes his passion to assist his communities as a life safety educator and as an officer in emergency and rescue services. He received his Bachelor of Arts in philosophy and religion from the University of Tennessee. Shawn Callaway Hays lives in the Ooltewah suburb of Chattanooga with his wife, Laura, and two children, Ivy and Callaway. Follow Shawn Callaway Hays and his similar works at rilkehopkinspress.com. We must realize our reservoirs of creativity beyond overcoming our heartaches and trials. As our urgent motivation, it is imperative that we engage our creative capacities through our vital working mythos that we need to be most real. As a metaphysic, as an aesthetic, poetry is creative engagement with the world that provides meaning, value, and significance to what most matters. We can be creative enough-'poet enough'-to integrate solutions that mitigate our challenges; compelling our creativities, we can quell our existential nausea, dispel our ennui, and silence our angst. Nurtured creativity can overflood our drives for mere survival. Creativity allows us to discover resurrection. In command of creativity, we can be life-giving, we can give all we've been given to give-our love-to the people we've been given to treasure. See less
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