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Industry And Creativity
Industry and Creativity Our world needs our arms and legs and talents. Heaven needs our industry to keep our planet afloat. We are industrious and we are also creative. And to be both is what life is all about. We construct our lives by what is imaged and we create in physical space what…
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To Research Oneself
The Teacher Speaks. . . . .For the one who searches the Heavens for his answers and then hopes to find the answers in his actions, his activities and in the midst of his affiliations, he might find them there if he chooses so. But chances are the answers he seeks will be in his…
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And We Live Again
the music tangles in the wind of muted sound and we live again When our son became seriously ill and I could not find holiday cards that spoke to what my heart carried, I started to make Christmas cards. The first card was made with construction paper and carried a poem of mine that I…
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A Silent Thank You
Hey there, mister. . . .are you ready? Almost, he says and in a few minutes he appeared. Where are we going, he asked and I said to do some errands . We can walk and because it is early, it is still cool. We did not hurry along, just sauntered. As we came…
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Invite The Heavens
It is a sacred alliance, this familial connection. So much depends on it. What happens within four walls is more important than what happens on the outside. What is happening in the world at large was predicted when my generation went out the front door to kindergarten. Character is formed within the first five years…
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Become The Friend
When the burlap arrived I began to learn how to work with the fabric. My first attempts were successful because they were the tried and true ones that I used with ordinary fabric. This wall quilt was the first attempt to write directly on the burlap. It became a quilt that built itself as I…
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The Road Hardly Ever Chosen
A Teacher Spoke. . . . you spend time patching up the grill work only to find that the holes are supposed to be there for that is the way it was designed. That is where it is you are. That is where we have come and there is no turning back but straight on …
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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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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…