Category Archives: Your Monday Blessing

FIRST

Posted on September 10, 2019 by

With these auspicious lines, the poet commences The earliest poem of the Australopithecus anamensis. Or were you first? Did those acuminated senses Place the objects of the world within your bars, And did that mouth of yours grunt out an … Continue reading →

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What Keeps Time?

Posted on August 22, 2017 by

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 →

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Your Monday Blessing for today

Posted on July 17, 2017 by

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 →

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The Diner

Posted on July 10, 2017 by

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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Great Story Prayer

Posted on June 19, 2017 by

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 →

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Your Monday Blessing: the self

Posted on June 12, 2017 by

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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Your Monday Blessing: the water

Posted on May 29, 2017 by

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 by

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 by

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 by

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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