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About bobjanisdillon

Unitarian Universalist minister, poet, husband, father, three-chord guitar wonder.

Your Monday Blessing: Tea Done Half Right

Posted on September 28, 2015 by bobjanisdillon

A few months ago the British broadsheets, with their typical rapturous national self-criticism, disclosed scientific findings that the British do not know how to make a cup of tea. Researchers from the University of Delving Into Such Things, after extensive … Continue reading →

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Your Monday Blessing: Orison

Posted on September 21, 2015 by bobjanisdillon

The word God breathed into existence, to give it shape, was “please”. It is often heard as a command. But in the winds, one hears the sigh of the lover.

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Your Monday Blessing: On Approaching 39

Posted on September 7, 2015 by bobjanisdillon

I’ve failed to lose my marbles, or my weight, The twin ballast of my life’s rapid course. The string of pearls, meanwhile, is cast from freight And are spilled, one by one, into their source. The husk of memory is … Continue reading →

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Your Monday Blessing: Wellness

Posted on August 24, 2015 by bobjanisdillon

After you recovered, your heart leapt towards the world like a spaniel. “I’m not ill” was written above your life in fireworks. So, now, bless all livers, howsoever touched by the planet’s attempt at exuberance, and let not the day’s … Continue reading →

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Your Monday blessing: three nature tanka

Posted on August 10, 2015 by bobjanisdillon

God’s eternal love lives in the heart of a mosquito, singing praises of communion. Those morning birds can’t shut up about how beautiful everything is, robbing me of my moment to myself. Flowers don’t know their own names. Sky keeps … Continue reading →

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Your (belated) Monday blessing

Posted on August 4, 2015 by bobjanisdillon

May you always hear the sound of the outbound train, Always see the hummingbird, Always notice the feel of the air of the open road, Always remember the smell of newborn children. And when you forget all these things – … Continue reading →

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Your Monday Blessing: Love the Hunter

Posted on July 27, 2015 by bobjanisdillon

Love roams the earth Looking for victims Sacrifices to the high God She is not inescapable Some days we are too fast too wary Once I was able to disguise myself as a man looking at a train timetable She … Continue reading →

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Your Monday blessing – prison

Posted on July 20, 2015 by bobjanisdillon

All life – at each and every moment, in every situation – is simultaneously both a kind or prison and a kind of freedom. You’re either asking your jailer how many more days and trying to win your way somewhere … Continue reading →

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Your Monday Blessing

Posted on July 13, 2015 by bobjanisdillon

May you have: Better unnecessary pleasures than all your vain hopes, Better mornings than the long night’s grieving, Better evenings than the sweat of the day. Better blues than the aching silence, and better calm than even the tolling bells … Continue reading →

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Your Monday Blessing

Posted on July 6, 2015 by bobjanisdillon

Your Monday Blessing, from those great American revivalists, The Grateful Dead: (words by Robert Hunter, music by the Grateful Dead) “Let it be known there is a fountain That was not made by the hands of men There is a … Continue reading →

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