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What Keeps Time?
What keeps time? Heartbeats steps a circle, pulled through its circumference a jar, beneath some papers, in a cupboard a tick a dinosaur, reshaped and reappraised rings on a tree waves, microwaves, and train goodbyes the folded hands of a … Continue reading
Your Monday Blessing for today
May God’s home be in the arms of the homeless and the refugee, may God’s ceremony be justice, may God’s tribute be surrender. May God’s righteousness be the poor, confirmed, and may God’s river be the very stream where she … Continue reading
The Diner
The night before I got married, there was a diner. It was across the street from the motel where we were staying – where I was staying, and my friends, and a few various of my family, and the night … Continue reading
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Tagged diner, marriage, poetry, The good life
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Great Story Prayer
Eternal spirit of life and love, o God, We come together in your presence today, Grateful to be a part of the great story. What a magnificent story it is! From the whirling of the stars, To the evolution of … Continue reading
Your Monday Blessing: the self
May your find yourself so often and in so many marvellous guises that the I is the aperture to all things
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Tagged Atman, masquerade, photography, poetry, self-fulfillment
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Your Monday Blessing: the water
Let me tell you a story about myself. I came from the water – before I had this body, I mean, when I was all ambition and a few tendrils. I came from the water, and flopped up onto the … Continue reading
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Tagged evolution, memory, poetry, room service
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Juliette Gréco is singing Over the Rainbow
Juliette Gréco is singing Over the Rainbow as she walks home through Paris after her interrogation by the Gestapo. Judy Garland, full-throated, echoes off the Boulevards, decommissioning silence, adding a few notes to joy’s chapter in the book of life. … Continue reading
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Tagged Casablanca, existentalism, Juliette Greco, Liberation, Miles Davis, poetry, Wizard of Oz
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