Category Archives: Your Monday Blessing

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: The Company

Posted on June 29, 2015 by bobjanisdillon

Look, you’ve been fine. I have been thoroughly entertained, if that was your concern. Damn near heroic, in places. I even liked the bits where you lost your way, clambered about the stage – not that I was rooting for … Continue reading →

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Your Monday Blessing: Consider Your Eyelids

Posted on June 22, 2015 by bobjanisdillon

Consider your eyelids as open palms, a child’s hands. At the end of the day – the good day, the bad day – they stretch out towards the heart in offering, giving the day back to Papa.

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Your Monday Blessing

Posted on June 15, 2015 by bobjanisdillon

May it always be November in your wisdom, March in your hope, and June in your heart.

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In Defense of Ice Cream as a Spiritual Practice

Posted on June 8, 2015 by bobjanisdillon

In Defense of Ice Cream as a Spiritual Practice First of all, ice cream is utterly destructive to the body. Let go of all the brittle little lies about calcium; please don’t talk to me of endorphins’ role in stress … Continue reading →

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