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Your Monday Blessing: let the artists win

Posted on November 16, 2015 by bobjanisdillon

I vote we let the artists win the ones covered in paint from their last attempt to smuggle across the beauty of a bowl of fruit the 14-year-old rapper learning to spit throwing life’s chaos on the rhythm wheel uncovering … Continue reading →

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Your Monday Blessing

Posted on May 18, 2015 by bobjanisdillon

May your dreams constantly be interrupted by children, and may your dog keep you from doing anything too important May your life be filled with the triumphs of fixing all the household objects that weren’t supposed to be broken. May … Continue reading →

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Your Monday blessing

Posted on April 27, 2015 by bobjanisdillon

Our world is constantly evolving, changing all the time, and it happens so gradually and so mysteriously, that we mortals can but wonder at the way that rocks may become life, and dinosaurs may become birds, and we become…who knows. … Continue reading →

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Your Monday Blessing: Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

Posted on March 16, 2015 by bobjanisdillon

May your friendships be richer than gold, And love more expected than the rain. May your life be long in kindnesses, And may your days be God’s way Of smiling at the world.

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Your Monday Blessing: The present spirit

Posted on February 2, 2015 by bobjanisdillon

Your Monday Blessing: (with apologies to Mr. Dickens, and wishing him and his a happy 203rd birthday) “Come in and know me better, man,” the winter giant roars, He’s crammed your hearth with mistletoe while you were filled with snores. … Continue reading →

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Your Monday blessing: snow day!

Posted on January 26, 2015 by bobjanisdillon

May blessings come into your life like snow, Drawing eyes to wonder, Melting on various tongues, Urging warmth and comfort to turn inward, to the heart. May the drops of heaven connect you to the living and the dead, Burying … Continue reading →

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Where the Old Year Goes

Posted on December 29, 2014 by bobjanisdillon

There is an inn, where the old year goes, On the far hill, where the crabgrass grows, and the honeysuckle, Where the stones incline together, a few aurochs painted on their side, Beneath the thatch of rusted armies and dried … Continue reading →

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Your Monday Blessing: star followers

Posted on December 15, 2014 by bobjanisdillon

We, too, have followed a star. Before Bethlehem, it lit the night in alien worlds, resplendent, mattering much to all those with eyes to see. What ancient astrologers tracked its course through their heavens, and saw, in the infinite darkness, … Continue reading →

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Your Monday Blessing: Halloween edition

Posted on October 27, 2014 by bobjanisdillon

There may come a time in life’s journey when thine own self rings as hollow and false as an old fool in an usurper’s court. Fear not. Well, OK, fear a little, but wonder, too. Pick up your plastic pumpkin … Continue reading →

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Your Monday Blessing: to all those I’ve wronged

Posted on October 6, 2014 by bobjanisdillon

To all those who I’ve wronged in the past year (in honor of Yom Kippur) To all those who I’ve wronged in the past year, I would like to offer a surrender, and a truce. First and foremost, the surrender: … Continue reading →

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