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Everything Keeps Happening

I don’t want to miss all of life’s intricacies. I want everything.  The pain, the sorrow, the happiness, the joy.  I accept it all. But I’m continually having to slow myself down.  To notice.  Pay attention.  See.  Hear.  Hold.  Touch. Especially now.  Always now. Mary Oliver says it superbly in “Both Worlds.”  It’s my gift—or […]

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Nodding Silently

From Wendell Berry’s “Sabbaths 2000, II” in Given: Poems. [Post image: Winter Walk by Alfi007 on stock.xchng]

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What Would You Tell Your Younger Self?

From my podcast of the same name. What things would you like to tell your younger self, if given the opportunity?  I’ve often thought I would never want to re-live my life again—heavens, no!—but I would like to have had some timely advice for things I was experiencing.  I wonder, though, if I would have […]

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Out of Your Own Heart

Patience, dahlings, patience.  I’ll tell you all about last night’s Susan Enan concert on Tuesday.  I need time to compose my happy thoughts (and pictures). In the meantime, I give you a gift.  Actually, the gift is none of my doing.  It’s one of Mary Oliver’s astute pieces.  Oh, how I love how she puts […]

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The End of the World

Are we so blind that we cannot see the end of the world occurring right now?  I don’t mean the apocalyptic end of the world some are predicting.  I mean the day-in-day-out abuse and intolerance and cruelty that pervades everything we do (including where we buy, what we buy, how we relate to others, when we […]

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