Author Archives: bobjanisdillon

About bobjanisdillon

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

Your Monday Blessing: the water

Posted on May 29, 2017

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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Juliette Gréco is singing Over the Rainbow

Posted on May 22, 2017

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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horseradish

Posted on May 15, 2017

While I am eating horseradish, it occurs to me there are at this very moment people who are trying to avert an international scandal that might affect one’s standing on the world’s stage, not to mention their investments in the … Continue reading →

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Your Monday Blessing: Your Next Breath

Posted on May 8, 2017

Dear one I am keeping your next breath very close to me I carry it around like a sacred amulet like a child’s toy like the sky itself in my heart with it I walk on the earth dignified and … Continue reading →

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Posted on April 24, 2017

Your Monday blessing comes from a place dear to my heart. I’ve come to know the Warrington YMCA, as well as their affiliated night shelter, a little over the last two years. Twice a month or so, a few of … Continue reading →

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Tao Te Ching #1

Posted on April 17, 2017

The word that can be spoken is not the eternal word. The picture that can be drawn is not the true picture. The indescribable created all. The describable is the mother of every thing. Therefore, only beyond the thinking mind, … Continue reading →

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Good Friday prayer

Posted on April 14, 2017

On this good, good Friday my heart goes out to my companions at Calvary, by which I mean those who are witnesses to the death of life and end of love, those who are broken open like crumbs upon the … Continue reading →

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The Ocean Forgets

Posted on April 7, 2017

The world remembers; the ocean forgets. All the tablets of sale and gentlemen’s bets, The criminal records and parking fines – Earth’s tear knows not what’s yours, nor cares what’s mine. It just roars on. Keep shouting, dear friend! Mad … Continue reading →

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Flight Mode

Posted on March 13, 2017

The only things real are grief and joy. As seagulls try out wheelies in the sky between blacktops, my children earn their wings on toys that were a history lesson when I was young. I leave my cell on mute, … Continue reading →

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Your Monday Blessing: The Calculus of Prayer

Posted on March 6, 2017

In the morning, when I talk to God, I say, I would love to find a clean pair of boxers waiting for me on the laundry rack, but then don’t worry about me, God; you must have much bigger matters … Continue reading →

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