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AvatarDecember 2, 2020 by Charles

Instructions for living a life by Mary Oliver

Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.

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AvatarDecember 1, 2020 by Charles

Love the gift of your life and do no harm by Mark Bellentini

Let the sky above me unroll like a scroll, and let me read upon it today’s text for my life: “You are alive, here and now. Love boldly and always tell the truth.” Let the wind arrange the naked branches of the maples and aspens and oaks into letters which proclaim this sacred text: “Your […]

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AvatarJanuary 5, 2016 by Charles

Resistance by Rev. Peter Friedrichs

Press the tender flesh of your knowing Against the steel door of your fear. Stay there, breathing, as its icy skin draws out the heat of your racing heart. Feel its resistance to the yes of your hopes, the imminent expiration of your dreams. You could have avoided this pain. You could have stayed safely […]

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AvatarOctober 27, 2014 by Charles

Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front by Wendell Berry

Love the quick profit, the annual raise, vacation with pay. Want more of everything ready-made. Be afraid to know your neighbors and to die. And you will have a window in your head. Not even your future will be a mystery any more. Your mind will be punched in a card and shut away in […]

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AvatarOctober 27, 2014 by Charles

The Peace of Wild Things by Wendell Berry

When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the […]

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AvatarSeptember 22, 2014 by Charles

Anthem by Leonard Cohen

The birds they sang at the break of day Start again I heard them say Don’t dwell on what has passed away or what is yet to be. Ah the wars they will be fought again The holy dove She will be caught again bought and sold and bought again the dove is never free. […]

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AvatarSeptember 14, 2014 by Charles

Another Reason Why I Don’t Keep A Gun In The House by Billy Collins

The neighbors’ dog will not stop barking. He is barking the same high, rhythmic bark that he barks every time they leave the house. They must switch him on on their way out. The neighbors’ dog will not stop barking. I close all the windows in the house and put on a Beethoven symphony full […]

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AvatarAugust 18, 2014 by Charles

Renewal by Betty-Lynn White

Human renewal comes through the shadow chains of the past By hard work. We drag those chains for days or decades, broken and beaten and often without knowledge about them. Renewal comes as the laughter after grief In the surprise of understanding. It is neither the naiveté of the child Nor the brazen veneer we […]

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AvatarApril 20, 2014 by Charles

When He Came by Dorothee Solle

He needs you That’s all there is to it Without you he’s left hanging Goes up in Dachau’s smoke Is sugar and spice in a baker’s hands Gets revalued in the next stock market crash He’s consumed and blown away Used up Without you Help him That’s what faith is He can’t bring it about […]

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AvatarMarch 18, 2014 by Charles

sweet spring by e. e. cummins

sweet spring is your time is my time is our time for springtime is lovetime and viva sweet love” (all the merry little birds are flying in the floating in the very spirits singing in are winging in the blossoming) lovers go and lovers come awandering awondering but any two are perfectly alone there’s nobody […]

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