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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
Posted in Devotional Poetry, Your Monday Blessing
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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horseradish
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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Tagged condiments, Dasein, international politics, poetry, William Carlos Williams
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Your Monday Blessing: Your Next Breath
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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Tagged ecology, love, poetry, respiration, responsibility
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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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Tagged community, home, homelessness, poetry, YMCA
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Tao Te Ching #1
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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Tagged mystic, phenomenology, poetry, Tao Te Ching, Taoism, translation
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Good Friday prayer
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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Tagged Easter, Good Friday, hope, Jesus, poetry, resurrection
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