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Thanksgiving
THANK YOU My days are filled with murmuring thanks for gifts unbidden. . . . for the stray thought giving answers to questions I did not ask. . . . for the beating heart too tired even to stop and glad that it does not. . . . for the quivering morning poised to take…
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The Invited Guest
I once knew a good carpenter who, with hammer and saw and wood and file showed me how to build a chair. I did and sat on it and then decided I needed a table. With hammer and saw and wood and file, I built a…
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the first snow
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We Are Asked
In each of us is our dream, our desire. The striving, the process is the only thing worth the struggle. This is why we work at it. All else are diversions. They are but a tangent of the premise. Either the striving or the process finds the dream for us or we do not find…
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Forever Stilled
Forever Stilled Hear the bird sing. Singing with the guttural sound because the ethers are not light enough to carry her notes. She swallows her song and it is forever stilled.
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In The Morning
In The Morning Today is the day I will preen my feathers, open my wings and fly. Today is the day I will breathe the elixir of rarefied air and bring to me All That Is into a heart grown weary. And then I…
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Bless The Experience
I learned something. I learned to ’bless the experience’. For if the experience has been a negative one, has left me with a hurt so deep, has filled me with anger, then I must bless it. For in the blessing I remove its power to hurt me again. I leave…
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Observations
If you do not intend to look back, it’s best to remember to lift the plow. Wishes are as potent a force as fishes swimming in live water. Under adverse conditions, we become more of what we are. To think is a holy obligation. Nothing gets done in this world unless a somebody’s back breaks,…
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NOBLE VIGILS
In its lucent light, riding high in orbit, the moon casts spears arching toward the groves of evergreens, trading their veracity for a moment of magic. The night dissolves the shaded parts into blackness. My eyes linger on the luminescence, on the silent…
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No Lost Causes
A one sided effort does bring results. Even when it appears to be a lost cause, it is not. That someone cares enough to do what needs to be done is never a lost cause. There cannot ever be a lost effort to do good in the universe. That would be an oxymoron, a contradiction. …