Life
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Life Uncovered – Sonnet XXX
The unexamined life is not worth living, / And Life Uncovered – Hidden – Unforgiving.
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wild and precious
Tell me, what else should I have done?Doesn’t everything die at last, and too soon?Tell me, what is it you plan to dowith your one wild and precious life? Well, Mary… I MUST call you Mary.I hope that won’t pose a problem,Ms Oliver. In our circle, you are just Mary,and we all know it’s you.…
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the end? – narcissi, revisited
The end was not what I had expected.
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Opting In – #SoCS
I still didn’t read those pages of tiny font explaining my terms of acceptance…
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Flesh on Bone
Stones/Bones/Lifeless Zones
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beyond the blue
It’s good to get rid of the darkness.
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validated
Today I live and stand in my own story.
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lost in translation
repeated efforts, demands, to get accurate translation all in vain.
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lifehill
“There’s no chairlift in sledding!” I shout to the lighthearted in skis. Envious? Likely.
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For Sylvia
I am not ready for anything to happen
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Blessings and Breakage – Thoughts on Christmas and 2017
Blessings and breakage live perilously close to one another. At times, blessings and breakage intertwine, to the point where you often can’t tell one from the other, if, in fact, they are not already one and the same.
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When You Start, it’s Just a Pile of Wood.
In order to become something useful or beautiful, that pile of wood has to go through a transformative process that only a true woodworker understands. And for this craftsman, that process becomes very personal, with the wood an extension or representation of myself, going through life, going from a pile of wood, to becoming something…
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Pride. No Prejudice.
It’s June 16 – just past halfway through Pride Month 2017. If you are a Facebook friend of mine, you’ve noticed a steady stream of pictures and stories oriented around the struggles (and victories) of many in the LGBTQ community, many of whom I count as friends as well as brothers and sisters in Christ.…
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Man Learns of His Heresy in Friends’ Bathroom
I’m a bathroom reader. My own bathroom is well-stocked with reading materials, and I’m always pleased when I use a host’s bathroom and find it replete with “stuff” to read. I’m not fussy – give me a Reader’s Digest, a Guideposts – heck, I’d probably read a Watchtower if it were there. I’ve even been…
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Count Your Blessings?
To start the new year, one of things my church is doing is having each of us pull a star from a basket with a word on it and asking us to adopt it as our “word of the year” on which to meditate, study, reflect, etc. (the first one I pulled didn’t have a word…
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The power of paying attention and gaining perspective
Today I will let others’ words speak: From this morning’s episode of “On Being“, with Krista Tippett: The Summer Day Mary Oliver Who made the world? Who made the swan, and the black bear? Who made the grasshopper? This grasshopper, I mean- the one who has flung herself out of the grass, the one who is…