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To Ponder
Bringing fear of the unknown under control is the prerogative of the one who understands there is nothing to fear. It is indeed a safe journey. Crying is for the moment. Getting on with it is forever. The road which takes the footwork is the one which begins with the beat of the heart.…
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Today Is Eternity
(in memory of Diane Rybacki) The Universe is a benign place. Our planet, in this best of all learning places, needs our actions, individual as they may be, to survive. And it needs us to learn from these actions. Then we find that the Universe becomes caring also because it needs our…
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Down Off
Down Off She watched her love come from the best of all places. Taking with him extra bags, yet, he arrived alone. And as he came, he swung his legs and jumped down off. She carried with her extra baggage, but looking at him coming to, eager, fresh to forget, she too would arrive alone…
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The Magic Never Ends
Sometimes it seems we do a thing and wonder afterwards why. Well, to me it is still a puzzlement as to why I ordered a bolt, of all things, a bolt of burlap on the eve of my 83rd birthday. In a few days there is a birthday and with a body balking, …
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To Think. . . A Sacred Obligation
Many times we say some things simply because we have heard them forever and never have thought them through sufficiently to change our thinking. The dastardly job of thinking is given away like some vile disease. Yet the remarkable process of thinking, the gift of thought, the joy of thinking is what man…
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Not A Pipe Dream
When we yearn for something and are sure it is going to come true and it doesn’t, we are crushed. How could we be so sure and then not have it happen? The actuality of it has already happened elsewhere; transpired in another place. That is hard for humans to absorb. That actuality is a…
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Will It Be A Memory?
It is about time, is it not, that man stands to be counted as responsible, not only for himself but for the place he inhabits by grace? There is that connection, that divine connection, that cosmic connection that unites us all. It is time that something be done and this desecration of the…
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Because
Because Because I have memories and carry pictures with no putting place in this my time. . . . Because I have memories of worlds I cannot see next door to where I am. . . . . Because I have memories of love once having been given. . . . without needing to prove…
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To Change History
To Change History At all times you can change your destiny. You can continue to love in the face of rejection. You can continue to have faith in the face of no faith. You can continue to build a life in the face of no life. And because you know this and continue…
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Greenfield Village, A Walk Into The Past
Greenfield Village, A Walk Into The Past This time now, the hay no longer lifts the roof of the standing barn. No longer piled loose and pitched with forks as high as the man can stand. It still creases the nose with aromatic exhilaration. Standing now are the bales neatly tucked one upon the other, …