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LULU LaCHANCE (aka)Louisa Loveridge Gallas<\/h2>\n

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Louisa-short bio<\/span><\/h2>\n

A seasoned mid-westerner, at age 6 Louisa began creating small books on folded napkins concerning life\u2019s dilemmas while snowbound in Minnesota, as well as pursuing a path as a musician. But always she was most interested in human\u2019s struggles and later brought her
focus there as a therapist. She lives on Milwaukee\u2019s East Side or in Arcadia, Michigan with her husband, Richard to whom she owes much gratitude for welcoming the muse into their life.<\/p>\n

She is currently Poet In Residence for Northern Michigan\u2019s The Freshwater Reporter and recently won first prize in the Manistee County Library System\u2019s 2022 poetry contest.
She has been an artist in residence with the Wisconsin Arts Board, her poetry has won awards and appeared in many journals and publications.<\/p>\n

Book Publications include a collection of poems: Revelations on Longing Street; a chapbook of nature poems, Low Life and Blood Relatives, connected to her performances with Milwaukee\u2019s Earth Poets and Musicians; An Eric Hoffer Foundation winner: The Wizard\u2019s Dream: A Universal Winter\u2019s Tale: the story of a young wizard who becomes mystified during the winter celebrations.<\/p>\n

With Zaragueya Press, Rescue the Good Stuff, a novella-like series of narrative poems; and a chapbook The Vanishing Point. An engaging live performer, she has appeared on many radio shows, and in numerous live venues. She has performed in concerts as back-up vocalist and on keyboard with nationally known recording artist Singer\/Songwriter Claudia Schmidt who has recorded and performs her poetry in concert.<\/p>\n

For thirty years Louisa was a counselor for individuals and groups, specializing in mind-body approaches and conflict resolution through her Riverlake Center. Part of her work, \u201cJust Life Conversations,\u201d addresses dilemmas that may not require therapy but are nevertheless a tough spot to be in and hard to manage on one\u2019s own, including a focus on the body\u2019s role in distress and trauma. Her brochure includes a quote from her poem, In the Teeth: \u201cWe will wakeup tomorrow\/to more green leaves and dew\/right in the teeth of this wild world.\u201d<\/p>\n

Her focus remains especially on how to prevent and heal estrangements and dilemmas that range within and between individuals and families and how they connect to larger
conflicts\/oppressions of racism, sexism, patriarchy. As in the following poems, her writing often reflects these concerns.<\/p>\n

Bam! Bam!<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

That\u2019s the trouble with life,<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

everyone has their reasons.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Jean Renoir<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Do you see where the little wars begin?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

How in love you are with your opinion,<\/span><\/p>\n

how little you hear me as I speak to you,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

so intent on formulating your response\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

and how moral I am feeling right now\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

with this observation of you.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Volleys of monologues.<\/span><\/p>\n

So it goes ME YOU ME YOU US THEM,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Bam Bam<\/span><\/i>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Tiny gun battles unconsciously rehearsing the larger struggle\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

gihads, fatwahs of personal opinion.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The obsession to be right\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

the right to quick anger,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

miniature hostilities that begin with tiny bullets,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

subtle wounds, undercover hurts,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

smoldering coals stoking, smoking toward conflagration<\/span><\/p>\n

of how in love you are with your own opinion\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

and how perfectly gloriously righteous I am feeling now<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0with my lofty scrutiny of your imperfections,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

waiting to win the next volley.<\/span><\/p>\n

Moths flying into flames.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Everyone Waves<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

Everyone waves\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

in our small village<\/span><\/p>\n

as we pass by each other\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

along the road even on\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

snow-driven blustery days.<\/span><\/p>\n

Briefly, we are on the same page,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

friends, kin, community.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

What if we all generously\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

extended this gracious moment\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

to our estrangements,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

our alienations,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

those we\u2019ve dismissed?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Possibly reach\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

across the divide<\/span><\/p>\n

to our friend we\u2019ve ghosted,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

family we shun?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

One more nudge to open<\/span><\/p>\n

the door we slammed<\/span><\/p>\n

on those we feel<\/span><\/p>\n

betrayed us?<\/span><\/p>\n

Come on!\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Let\u2019s jump\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

into the small-town truck\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

trapped in the frozen part\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

of our soul,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

shift into a new gear,<\/span><\/p>\n

hit the road!<\/span><\/p>\n

Surrender ourselves\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

to at least one more<\/span><\/p>\n

gracious wave\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

at the passerby<\/span><\/p>\n

who once we held<\/span><\/p>\n

so close in our heart.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Louisa Loveridge Gallas<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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LULU LaCHANCE: Who I Am Now<\/strong><\/h3>\n

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Hello! Yes, my new \u2018blog\u2019 handle, LULU LaCHANCE points to my current experience of myself I feel urgent to share.<\/span>
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So where am I and how to pay attention to our dire cluster of emergencies and awakenings: chronic racial injustice and white supremacy; the pandemic; the evolution of white privilege conscience: the climate crisis. The sustaining of community, family, love in the time of extreme challenges.<\/span>
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In the midst of these, what comes along and GRABS me is another dilemma so familiar it may seem humdrum: the way we throw shade at each other, our beloveds and friends, our long term relationships. \u00a0Our fears and incompetence to face interpersonal \u00a0conflicts; the personal, civic and global damage of such negligence. And of course, as a therapist, I must acknowledge how conflict aversion has, as its back story, so many profound familial and cultural influences, and body trauma that drive people to walk away.<\/span>
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Enter LULU LaCHANCE. \u00a0A nickname, a mantra, a nudge, a demand, to remind myself to clear my own grudges, communication fears, nano-second judgments, absolute certainties, my reactivity. \u00a0To give an alternative \u2018CHANCE\u2019 to open up the various narratives I tell myself to wider possibility. To say \u00a0\u2018MAYBE\u2019 to myself, as my freight train of righteousness heads into the station. To become more brave in addressing often severe discomfort in myself and others that makes us shut down.<\/span>
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Here is the closest place I come to certainty that bends toward preaching: if we evolve skills interpersonally as communicators, in our own backyard; \u00a0if we attend more justly to \u2018the other\u2019 within ourselves and among our loved ones\/community, our inter-personal eco-system will \u2018trickle up\u2019 to assist all the great on-going social issues and current crises. As I move into my vintage years, this life-long concern has, I admit, risen to a passion and preoccupation that keeps me awake at night and enters my dreams. Some might think, of course, \u201cwe know this about ourselves, we must do better. We\u2019re working on it.\u201d True of many folk.<\/span>
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But not enough of us. Not hard enough. \u00a0<\/span>
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So that\u2019s me. My current internal resume. All fired up. Perhaps you\u2019ll jump on board this freight train! And help me keep from stopping at the Station of Certitude and Foregone Conclusions! Maybe!!<\/span>
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Lulu La Chance<\/em><\/p>\n

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Published Books<\/span><\/h1>\n

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Rescue the Good Stuff<\/h3>\n

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Low Life and Blood Relatives<\/h3>\n

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Revelations on Longing Street<\/h3>\n

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Louisa Loveridge Gallas helps me understand with every nerve and molecule how the marelous is interwoven with the hudrum of the day to day events. The Goosebumps of truth awaken and revitalize me sentient self: with word, cadence image, I am reminded to forego cynicisms and simply celebrate this wild ride called the human condition.<\/p>\n

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Claudia Schmidt, Red House Recording Artist<\/span><\/h4>\n

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Basic Hygiene” is a favorite, the archetypal gardening poem and ode to earth. I can’t think of another poem that has the same effect.<\/p>\n

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Antler, WI Poet Laureate<\/span><\/h4>\n

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Louisa Loveridge Gallas takes us into the muddled existential waters of childhood, narrated by the precociously wry Madeleine Kidd. Her father is a figment of his own imagination; \u2018Maddie\u2019 and her mother are flotsam and jetsam tossed in his fantasies. With no reliable witness, Maddie negotiates her reality, innocent yet wary, a journey both everyday and underground. Though separated from her by my race and gender, as a Black person, I identify with Maddie\u2019s double consciouness: how to become oneself while being the object of others\u2019 power, unconsciousness and distorted expectations.”<\/p>\n

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Dr KennetH addison, Professor Emeritus<\/span><\/h4>\n

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Louisa Loveridge Gallas has written a tour de force that grabs you and will not let go.\u00a0 In a lively, inviting voice, Maddie Kidd reveals the multi-layered consciousness of a child seeking truth, suppressing troubles and having fun, all at the same time. Her blind confidante, Shiny, brings a nuanced yet universal touch to Maddie\u2019s unruly world<\/span>.<\/p>\n

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shirley MC Johnson, PhD Fulbright professor of English<\/span><\/h4>\n

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