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Coming To The Altar
The Teachers Speak. . . . What is suppressed is what we are most afraid of and fear carries a sub label of secretive which must go along with the word afraid. Even in today’s world of reality shows, there are still those who carry their fears close to the chest. And often do not…
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Staff Of Life
Staff Of Life Unsteady on his legs, I watched my then toddler grandson bend down and pick up his book. In one motion, he touched the book to his lips. In another time, when I was young, I saw his great grandfather move with just such a motion to pick up a piece of bread…
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Intensity Of Purpose
Intensity of Purpose One of the first unhappy side effects of the medications taken for my cardiac problem was that it took away my morning exuberance that had me thrusting my feet to the floor all the days of my life till then. (yes, I am grateful they have kept me breathing!) But without my…
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Times Such As These
We are told that hearing you will hear and not understand and seeing you will see and not perceive. Simple words meaning simple things? But of course you see and of course you hear unless physical impairments prevent us. But it is even more than that. In the process there are the cries in crisis…
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To Regain Our Knowledge (that we are safe)
One of my reader’s comment on a poem of mine was that it gave her a safe feeling. And after much thought, I came to some conclusions. The first being to educate ourselves to broaden our premises so that the unknown will become a known. The narrower our premises the more outside our frame of…
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Different Can Be Good
Different Can Be Good It was a hurried morning when our two oldest sons were home from college and I told them that I had had a vivid dream and wrote down some things while half asleep that I did not know about and thought that they might. I showed them the notes. I knew…
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On Being Different
A recent journal entry on being different. The Teacher Speaks. . . . Take it this way. To be different means you step out from the crowd. When you, as an example, are different in your posing the question as well as answering with what it is you know and cannot see the difference, it…
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From Whence Cometh My Strength
Much comes to mind when I read Jon Katz’ s blog http://BedlamFarm.com which is a favorite. His problems I can relate to because my most formative years were on The Farm. When I write my memory is always sitting in some farmplace. His blog by guest…
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Argument With Crossed Signals
Another Argument with Crossed Signals There was a maxim often repeated when I was growing up that one never ‘tempts the gods.’ My ‘sense of’ justice and unfairness peaked early for me for which I was punished. When I was a child, I was puzzled that the big people did not take issue with this…
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Not A Whim Of The Potter
It is a wonderful play on words when we are given a phrase and then run like the wind with it. I was reading about a ‘sense of snow’ and the history of it. How someone with this sense can tell you many things when seeing a footprint in the snow and who made it,…