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To the one insisting “All Lives Matter”
You have made a protest, albeit a small one. I am listening. I am listening. I am waiting to hear what is required of us. If all lives matter, then surely we need to be outside the immigrant detention center, … Continue reading
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Tagged All Lives Matter, Black Lives Matter, justice, poetry, protest
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Monday Blessing from Elie Wiesel
Your Monday Blessing, from Elie Wiesel’s 1986 Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech: “I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence … Continue reading
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Your Monday Blessing: Once Again I Recommit to my Surrender
Your Monday Blessing: Once Again I Recommit to my Surrender Once again I recommit to my surrender to love. They point their little guns at us, there isn’t much time. Raise the mast heavenward, unfurl the rainbow flag. I stand … Continue reading
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Tagged Christianity, Islam, Jo Cox, LGBT, love, Orlando, pacifism, poetry, surrender
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Your Monday Blessing: from “The Epic of Muhammad Ali”, introduction
Speak, Muse, of the one who was the Greatest, tell of how he stole glory from the gods, punched the lights out of heaven and made us all see stars. In this corner, show the odds against the black man … Continue reading
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Tagged Homer, Islam, Muhammad Ali, poetry, racism, sports
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The People Who Have Been Good to Me
I would be more cynical, I suppose, except it feels unfair to the people who have been good to me. My life, as I look back, has been littered with kindnesses. Once, a woman made me tea. Asked me if … Continue reading
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Tagged ethics, living a good life, morality, poetry, tea, virtue
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Plain Speech
God loves especially the poor, for he is eager to give them everything. God loves especially the hungry, for she is eager to feed them. God loves especially those who cry, for ze is eager to wipe away their tears. … Continue reading
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Tagged beatitudes, Jesus, liberation theology, passion, poetry, trans
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Precious Moments
Precious Moments Time is a sledgehammer to porcelain, Memory, the hue of bathwater once The kids have gone to bed. The word is said, The allowance spent, quicker than the growth Of an atom outside the lab. Give, then, Each … Continue reading
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Tagged communion, poetry, Prometheus, time
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Prayer for Humility
God, I pray you might humble the grand, beautifully ornate and rather useless temple of my self-importance, and grind it into the common dust, from which the actions, and best grace, of this world are composed.
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Your Monday Blessing: Internet Advice
In the morning, instead of clicking on CNN to prove your theory that the world is broken, you might try taking a stroll through the mansion of your past. It’s ready for you, more or less. You’ve built it, and … Continue reading
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The Castle Ruins
The crabgrass towers over the dirt at the castle ruins. The children trample it down, in freewheeling approximations of massacres past. Only the echoes, only the hints of the shadows of the echoes, are made to last. The hostages run … Continue reading
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