Rosemerry Trommer
Rosemerry Trommer
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Zenful Conversations, June 20, 2024
Rosemerry and ZenJen discuss poetry, healing, surrender, opening, and much more.
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Because my heart is where you now dwell: A poem for those grieving beloveds
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Because my heart is where you now dwell, I try to make it beautiful-a spacious place with room enough for blue birds to migrate, where whole herds of elk can bed down, and with fields so vast they hold every memory of you- not just the warmhearted memories, but the hardest ones, too. Those I hold up to the soft light of morning, grateful for room enough to walk around them and give them the spa...
When It Looks Like the End
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How do we live our lives? How do we meet our mortality? Inspiration from a cherry tree ... When It Looks Like the End for Stumpy, and maybe for you To survive. To not only survive, but to bring joy. To bloom despite our own hollowing. To bloom despite the erosion of the world in which we grew. I speak of a cherry tree, but I also, perhaps, speak of you- how you have made of your life not just a...
To Face the Dark
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Poetry by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer Music by Steve Law Art by Marisa S. White, "Grace & Gravity" Video by Tony Jeannette How do we face the dark? This is the final track on DARK PRAISE, a spoken-word album on endarkenment exploring the ways the dark nourishes us. To Face the Dark To face the dark, one does not need a light. Nor does one need a watch, a feather, a melody, a sword, a pen. One doe...
Living into All the Honey: Embracing Grief & Joy
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"What do joy and grief have in common?" asks poet Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer. "...The ability to evoke feeling that pushes us and opens us and helps us to be compassionate and helps us fall in love." In this 10-minute video, she reads poems that span grief and joy from her new collection All the Honey. She speaks of what she knows now about grief she didn't before her son died, of spaciousness a...
Talking with My Daughter about Grief
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Poetry by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer Music by Steve Law Art by Marisa S. White, "Storm Rider" Video by Tony Jeannette How do we speak of grief with our children? With our beloveds? Sometimes even the softest words feel too crass. Sometimes, the night allows us to be together in wordless times in deeply intimate ways. This poem, "Talking with My Daughter About Grief," was written after my son die...
Lumbricis Terrestris
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Poetry by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer Music by Steve Law Art by Marisa S. White, "Night Owl" Video by Tony Jeannette How do we meet what is compact and dark? LIke an earthworm with patience, making porous and nourishing. "Lumbricus Terrestrs" (which is the Latin name for earthworm) is a track on DARK PRAISE, a spoken-word album that honors the dark and how it opens us to creativity, passion, inti...
Because Last Night I Dreamt of You
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Poetry by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer Music by Steve Law Art by Marisa S. White, "Sculpting of Endless Passages" Video by Tony Jeannette Some dreams are sweeter than others. "Because Last Night I Dreamt of You" is a track on DARK PRAISE, a spoken-word album that honors the dark and how it opens us to creativity, passion, intimacy, revelation, dreaming, receptivity, self-discovery and connection. ...
The Invitation
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Poetry by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer Music by Steve Law Art by Marisa S. White, "As Real as the Here and Now" Video by Tony Jeannette The stories we tell ourselves matter. When my son took his life, I had an immediate story I was telling myself full of self-pity and judgment and in this poem, I write about the moment that frame changed and the enormous difference that has made in my life. "The I...
To Everyone Who Has Offered Me Support This Year
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Poetry by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer Music by Steve Law Art by Marisa S. White, "Pluck from the Depths" Video by Tony Jeannette "To Everyone Who Has Offered Me Support This Year" is a track on DARK PRAISE, a spoken-word album that honors the dark and how it opens us to creativity, passion, intimacy, revelation, dreaming, receptivity, self-discovery and connection. As Rosemerry explores in this p...
In Those Quiet Hours
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Poetry by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer Music by Steve Law Art by Marisa S. White, "Quiet Hours" Video by Tony Jeannette "In Those Quiet Hours" is a track on DARK PRAISE, a spoken-word album that honors the dark and how it opens us to creativity, passion, intimacy, revelation, dreaming, receptivity, self-discovery and connection. As Rosemerry explores in this poem, there are ways the dark can open ...
With Red Thread
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Poetry by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer Music by Steve Law Art by Marisa S. White Video by Tony Jeannette "With Red Thread" is a track on DARK PRAISE, a spoken-word album that honors the dark and how it opens us to creativity, passion, intimacy, revelation, dreaming, receptivity, self-discovery and connection. As Rosemerry explores in this poem, there are ways the dark sets the stage for intimacy i...
Mycelial
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Poetry by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer Music by Steve Law Art by Marisa S. White, "Mourning Morning" Video by Tony Jeannette "Mycelial" is a track on DARK PRAISE, a spoken-word album that honors the dark and how it opens us to creativity, passion, intimacy, revelation, dreaming, receptivity, self-discovery and connection. As Rosemerry explores in this poem, there are ways the dark helps us meet gr...
After We'd Been in the Cave Over an Hour
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Poetry by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer Music by Steve Law Art by Marisa S. White, "The Circus" Video by Tony Jeannette "After We'd Been in the Cave Over an Hour" is a track on DARK PRAISE, a spoken-word album that honors the dark and how it opens us to creativity, passion, intimacy, revelation, dreaming, receptivity, self-discovery and connection. As Rosemerry explores in this poem, there are ways...
The One Who Thrives
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The One Who Thrives
I Want to Listen to Your Absence
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I Want to Listen to Your Absence
Wild Rose Goes for a Drive with God
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Wild Rose Goes for a Drive with God
Teach Me The Dark
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Teach Me The Dark
Launch for All the Honey with Kayleen Asbo
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Launch for All the Honey with Kayleen Asbo
Falling in Love with the World: Poetry Reading for Larry Robinson
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Falling in Love with the World: Poetry Reading for Larry Robinson
Rosemerry Reading at Bardic Trails: Poetic exploration of how to meet a day
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Rosemerry Reading at Bardic Trails: Poetic exploration of how to meet a day
Writing the Body: A Poetry Thoughtshop with Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
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Writing the Body: A Poetry Thoughtshop with Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
Acceptance
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Acceptance
Without a Doubt
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Without a Doubt
Leaning into Uncertainty: A poetry thoughtshop with Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
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Leaning into Uncertainty: A poetry thoughtshop with Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
Play: A Thoughtshop with Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
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Play: A Thoughtshop with Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
Earth Words: A poetry thoughtshop
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Earth Words: A poetry thoughtshop
Grief and Grace: A poetry thoughtshop with Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
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Grief and Grace: A poetry thoughtshop with Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
Heartbeat in Concert
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Heartbeat in Concert
Still Falling in Love with the Broken World Thoughtshop
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Still Falling in Love with the Broken World Thoughtshop

КОМЕНТАРІ

  • @glenwerry384
    @glenwerry384 8 днів тому

  • @evermoreforall
    @evermoreforall Місяць тому

    So very beautiful, thank you! Love your hat!!

  • @joannesnyder3717
    @joannesnyder3717 Місяць тому

    This place where death is made holy and real.... soooo lovely and true!! I love your hat my beloved poet! Xo joanne

  • @joannesnyder3717
    @joannesnyder3717 2 місяці тому

    ON my birthday a treasure of a poem.....when it looks like the end may we all continue blossoming in memorable story!! joanne

  • @KristinPedemonti
    @KristinPedemonti 3 місяці тому

    "Not just a stump, but a story." ❤ Thank you for the beauty and light you shine and share. Your life is a blossom, Rosemerry. ❤

    • @rosemerryt
      @rosemerryt 3 місяці тому

      Ah, thank you sister blossom ...

  • @joyalmulheron
    @joyalmulheron 3 місяці тому

    Indeed, this is how we go on. Thank you for being a light ❤

    • @rosemerryt
      @rosemerryt 3 місяці тому

      Thank you, Joyal! You and Evermore inspired this poem!!!

  • @katiestutzman4470
    @katiestutzman4470 3 місяці тому

    It’s amazing how many many people can be separately connected to something, then a poem comes along that unites us emotionally. Thanks Rosemerry ❤️

    • @rosemerryt
      @rosemerryt 3 місяці тому

      thank you for this--I had never thought of a poem in this way, and now I think I always will!

  • @LMc1177
    @LMc1177 3 місяці тому

    🥲

  • @SmithBrookHollow
    @SmithBrookHollow 3 місяці тому

    Beautiful Rosemerry ❤

    • @rosemerryt
      @rosemerryt 3 місяці тому

      thank you, Deb ❤❤

  • @1z1zmike
    @1z1zmike 3 місяці тому

    Lovely…very moving 🙂🙏

  • @narsadinargisparveen7692
    @narsadinargisparveen7692 3 місяці тому

    Hello mam, i m from india. I really loved your videos. Your voice, your words, it's really amazing 🎉😊

  • @jimmypappas4326
    @jimmypappas4326 5 місяців тому

    I love how the speaker reaffirms that she is only listening to absence. The silence of someone missing is all she has to listen to.

    • @rosemerryt
      @rosemerryt 4 місяці тому

      thank you, Jimmy, thank you

  • @jimmypappas4326
    @jimmypappas4326 5 місяців тому

    Made me laugh. That's a good thing.

    • @rosemerryt
      @rosemerryt 4 місяці тому

      every time we can -- how it nourishes us 😁

  • @MarjorieShalita
    @MarjorieShalita 5 місяців тому

    Your poem has inspired these musings of my Soul. I want to want what I already have. I want to love who and what I always, already am. This wanting is my Soul’s Lure of Becoming. This Longing to Listen is Present through Past, Present and Future. Your Absence is inside my Presence. My Presence is inside Your Absence. I am still Learning to,Love Shadow as I Love Light. With Grace and Peace that passes all understanding. Blessed Be ❤️

    • @rosemerryt
      @rosemerryt 5 місяців тому

      oh friend, blessed be--

  • @jimmypappas4326
    @jimmypappas4326 5 місяців тому

    You have carried a lot of us, Rosemerry.

    • @rosemerryt
      @rosemerryt 5 місяців тому

      Thank you, Jimmy, for your kindness ❤❤

  • @santievandermerwe
    @santievandermerwe 6 місяців тому

    I learn a lot about grief from your poetry and find consolation in it. Thank you for sharing it in this beautiful way.

    • @rosemerryt
      @rosemerryt 6 місяців тому

      Thank you, friend, thank you for this comment and thank you for listening to the poem ... I wish you deep peace

  • @joannesnyder3717
    @joannesnyder3717 7 місяців тому

    It is the "love" that holds us and does the work! great timimg and potential reassurance as we approach the longest nights!! Om Joanne

  • @1z1zmike
    @1z1zmike 7 місяців тому

    Another wonderful poem…many thanks 🙏🙂

  • @deviantbonbonz
    @deviantbonbonz 7 місяців тому

    Rosemerry is a healer poet. She brings us deeper into ourselves and blesses us. She is a gift to this troubled world.

    • @rosemerryt
      @rosemerryt 7 місяців тому

      Oh beautiful artfool--it is you who taught me this art. Thank you for all the ways you both disrupt and heal, all the ways you are a gift to this world, to my life

  • @KristinPedemonti
    @KristinPedemonti 7 місяців тому

    Oh Rosemerry, thank you for writing your heart in eloquent beauty of Both/And.❤ The piano, setting & editing add layers of wonderful. Thank you fpr sharing your gifts.

    • @rosemerryt
      @rosemerryt 7 місяців тому

      oh there it is ... both and ... giant hugs to you, dear Kristin, my sister in paradox

    • @KristinPedemonti
      @KristinPedemonti 7 місяців тому

      @@rosemerryt 🩷🤗🙏🩷🙏

  • @kimlangley2925
    @kimlangley2925 7 місяців тому

    Wow just wow. Blessings on you and all the good you are bringing into the world

    • @rosemerryt
      @rosemerryt 7 місяців тому

      thank you, dear Kim, who also brings so much good into the world. thank you. ❤❤❤

    • @kimlangley2925
      @kimlangley2925 7 місяців тому

      @@rosemerryt ❤️❤️❤️

  • @user-ts7vi1rt9u
    @user-ts7vi1rt9u 7 місяців тому

    Rosemerry, you are a gift! Thank you for being able to embrace the paradoxes of life so beautifully.

  • @donnabogle6965
    @donnabogle6965 7 місяців тому

    Another “best” way to start a day…with my poet.

    • @rosemerryt
      @rosemerryt 7 місяців тому

      thank you, my poet! I love that we are each other's poets!

  • @lakiely1
    @lakiely1 7 місяців тому

    Your words fill my heart with the Love that leads me through my grief. The Love that brings me through it all. Thank you for sharing your journey. With much gratitude for finding you and fellow travelers who walk this path.

    • @rosemerryt
      @rosemerryt 7 місяців тому

      "the love that leads me through my grief"--you say this so beautifully ❤❤

  • @eduardoreybrummel9432
    @eduardoreybrummel9432 7 місяців тому

    Of course I love this. So wondrously surprised, seeing it (YOU!) on my UA-cam feed. How justified, yet still wunderbar, UN-Reno sought you out for their speaker series. It continues to delight me, seeing this beloved once regional poet being beloved by a continuing broadening region. Watching as an expanding world takes you into their arms, welcoming you into this infinite world. Kiitos, Amiga. Kiitos.

    • @rosemerryt
      @rosemerryt 7 місяців тому

      Thank you, thank you, thank you brother Eduardo

  • @emmapascalepearson5576
    @emmapascalepearson5576 7 місяців тому

    thank you for your exquisite way with words, language, stories, emotions, love, grief and joy... I see a note below to "keep doing you"... I want to change that a little... "your being you emboldens me to be more me". Thank you fellow griefling

    • @rosemerryt
      @rosemerryt 7 місяців тому

      Oh Emma who is more and more Emma, I ever send you love, sister mama ❤

  • @ShantiLaraPeace
    @ShantiLaraPeace 7 місяців тому

    Rosemerry, you are a sparkling jewel. Your poetry brings me so much joy. Keep doing you.

    • @rosemerryt
      @rosemerryt 7 місяців тому

      ohhhh, thank you for this comment. Thank you for joining with me in this practice!

  • @dreamterry
    @dreamterry 7 місяців тому

    What beauty. What wonder. What leadership in love. Thank you, dear Rosemerry, for everything that you are. We are blessed by your willingness to share the deep truth . . .

    • @rosemerryt
      @rosemerryt 7 місяців тому

      Oh thank you, friend. Thank you for joining me in this wonder and beauty and heart ache and opening.

  • @joannesnyder3717
    @joannesnyder3717 7 місяців тому

    Hey there! So much that is rich in this UA-cam!! Earlier today I was looking at some material regarding the release of ALL THE HONEY..... This quote "hit the proverbial nail on the head" by Alison Luterman; These poems were written in the crucible of great grief but the fire underneath them is great love. " Well said !! It is powerful the immediate success of ALL THE HONEY second printing in two days!! was brought to you (title) in a loving vision from your father and Finn!!!! shower of roese, indeed! xo joanne

    • @rosemerryt
      @rosemerryt 7 місяців тому

      it was indeed amazing, dear friend, how quickly this book has flown off shelves and into the world--such a joy! thank you for all your support!

    • @joannesnyder3717
      @joannesnyder3717 7 місяців тому

      Thank You for your support friend! I am still awaiting Poetry in Process 2 so I can take your workshop starting Nov.28! I intuitively feel it will happen!! HA lovely to hear you reading your glittering, unfurling poems!! @@rosemerryt

  • @ShantiLaraPeace
    @ShantiLaraPeace 7 місяців тому

    Heartfelt, poignant, beautiful. Sending strength to you and your daughter.

    • @rosemerryt
      @rosemerryt 7 місяців тому

      than you, Lara, thank you

  • @joannesnyder3717
    @joannesnyder3717 7 місяців тому

    Such incredibly beautiful images!! I am sure this was not an easy poem to say, write!! Ohhh! let the moon do all the talking..... Heartfelt thoughts go with you... j

    • @rosemerryt
      @rosemerryt 7 місяців тому

      oh how I remember that night

    • @joannesnyder3717
      @joannesnyder3717 7 місяців тому

      Hugs to you and the memory my friend!@@rosemerryt j

  • @user-zd9yz2iu7e
    @user-zd9yz2iu7e 7 місяців тому

    beautiful

  • @emmapascalepearson5576
    @emmapascalepearson5576 7 місяців тому

    your work always speaks to me... this one speaks for me

    • @rosemerryt
      @rosemerryt 7 місяців тому

      oh sweet emma, sister mama, I am beaming love to you

  • @santievandermerwe
    @santievandermerwe 7 місяців тому

    My husband passed away six moths ago. Some nights I wake up crying. Your tender words console.

    • @rosemerryt
      @rosemerryt 7 місяців тому

      Oh friend, my heart opens to yours as you meet the loss of your husband. I wish you deep peace--

  • @Franimally
    @Franimally 8 місяців тому

    Such a beautiful setting of this poem, Rosemerry ♥ And its wisdom, so needed now.

    • @rosemerryt
      @rosemerryt 8 місяців тому

      Thank you, Fran--oh yes--so important now to learn this earthworm-ish skill of making things porous and more spacious

    • @Franimally
      @Franimally 8 місяців тому

      ❤@@rosemerryt ❤

  • @user-tv7mf5fi7h
    @user-tv7mf5fi7h 8 місяців тому

    yes

    • @rosemerryt
      @rosemerryt 8 місяців тому

      Thank you, friend ... yes.

  • @emmapascalepearson5576
    @emmapascalepearson5576 8 місяців тому

    I remember being so moved by this piece of writing when it first came into my inbox...and now with the music, the voice, the imagery, the pacing of your reading.... I feel infused with a little more earthworm quality. Why - I want to write Earthworm with a capital E!

    • @rosemerryt
      @rosemerryt 8 місяців тому

      Ah dear Emma, yes ... more earthworm. I love the way the music slowly makes its way higher, higher, very playful in its diligence ...

  • @janishaag
    @janishaag 8 місяців тому

    Such a beautiful reading in your lovely voice paired with Steve Law's simple and equally lovely music. What a gift! Thank you!

    • @rosemerryt
      @rosemerryt 8 місяців тому

      Thank you, friend!! yes, his music just makes everything better ....

  • @joannesnyder3717
    @joannesnyder3717 8 місяців тому

    Your Earhworm poenm help me to realize why I always am been attracted to Earthworms!! delightful!! lovely my constancy my devotion to OPENNES my willingness to be with what is!! You are a lovelight in the world, Rosemerry!! Thank You for this piece I have had a long and tiring week but your piece has given me great resilience and kept me openning! Trust my words convey my gratitude and peace. j

    • @rosemerryt
      @rosemerryt 8 місяців тому

      wishing you deep peace as you continue to open, continue to meet what is dense and dark ...

    • @joannesnyder3717
      @joannesnyder3717 8 місяців тому

      nothing is really that dense and dark!!! not for long it can change in minutes!! j@@rosemerryt

  • @joannesnyder3717
    @joannesnyder3717 8 місяців тому

    Ooohh La LA luscious and wonderful!....drummer is still there alone on stage beating out a tempo COMPLEX but true!! Thanks! j🥰

    • @rosemerryt
      @rosemerryt 8 місяців тому

      thank you, Joanne, thank you ❤❤

  • @arunachulashiva
    @arunachulashiva 8 місяців тому

    Beautiful. Thanks, Rosemerry.

    • @rosemerryt
      @rosemerryt 8 місяців тому

      Thank you, friend, for watching

  • @carie2484
    @carie2484 8 місяців тому

    The love in this is everything. ❤

    • @rosemerryt
      @rosemerryt 8 місяців тому

      Oh friend, it's everything ...

  • @elizabethwolf2133
    @elizabethwolf2133 9 місяців тому

    Beautiful poem and amazing video. I'm saving this as an example of the power of video poetry.

    • @rosemerryt
      @rosemerryt 8 місяців тому

      thank you, Elizabeth ... I have been loving what Tony has been doing with these videos ... thank you for watching and for this response!

  • @emmapascalepearson5576
    @emmapascalepearson5576 9 місяців тому

    oh sweetheart - so stunning - the words, the music, the spaces in between, the love, the love, the love, and the longing

    • @rosemerryt
      @rosemerryt 9 місяців тому

      the love, the love, the love. I know you know, dear Emma.

  • @KristinPedemonti
    @KristinPedemonti 9 місяців тому

    Layers of love in the loss in the hope in a new story. Thank you for sharing your gift of words, voice made ever more poignant with music, with image, with words unfolding on the screen. Our hearts are moved with you.

    • @rosemerryt
      @rosemerryt 9 місяців тому

      Thank you, Kristin, for going there with me ... love to you ❤

  • @joannesnyder3717
    @joannesnyder3717 9 місяців тому

    So poignant and the power of loves infinitity.... love invites us to bring our best!! Thank for being a lovelight in the world, Rosemerry!! With love, j

    • @rosemerryt
      @rosemerryt 9 місяців тому

      Thank you, Joanne--thank you ❤❤❤

  • @thomasdef634
    @thomasdef634 9 місяців тому

    Poignant, solemn, even heart-harrowing at moments, but for all that: hopeful. And this is how poetry saves us, by embracing the contradictions, by not denying the manyness of our realities. Rosemerry, thank you, and thank you to your collaborators.

    • @rosemerryt
      @rosemerryt 9 місяців тому

      Oh friend, so well said, this is how poetry saves us--power to the paradox

  • @jimmypappas4326
    @jimmypappas4326 9 місяців тому

    Beautiful work, Rosemerry.

    • @rosemerryt
      @rosemerryt 9 місяців тому

      Thank you, Jimmy ❤