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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
Posted in Other poetry, Your Monday Blessing
Tagged evolution, memory, poetry, room service
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Flight Mode
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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Tagged bicycles, grief, joy, love, memory, poetry, technology
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Where the Old Year Goes
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
Posted in Devotional Poetry, Your Monday Blessing
Tagged blessing, memory, New Year, time
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Your Monday Blessing
& the letters not written & the words that didn’t find mouths & the kindnesses not enacted & the reconciliations not achieved & the embraces not extended & the drawings left unfinished on the counter & the apologies not made … Continue reading
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Tagged All Saints, All souls Day, death, justice, love, memory, regret
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Sermon: “Ghosts”
Thanks to Dorothea Dix Unitarian Universalist Community for hosting me. Here’s the text of the sermon: It was after the waves of pirates and princesses, after the ninjas wearing bathrobes and plastic swords, after the cute little pumpkin being pushed … Continue reading
Posted in Sermons, Sermons - Audio, Sermons - Text
Tagged community, ghosts, Halloween, history, James Dean, living a good life, memory, neighbor, trick or treat, Unitarian Universalism
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Your Monday Blessing: for Indigenous Peoples Day
The difference between redeemed and forgotten is justice. Tombstones crumble, but the pain that is etched in the blood of our family sings, and sings, until the final hearing.
Sermon for All Souls Day (audio and text)
“All Souls Day” Rev. Bob Janis-Dillon First Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Hunterdon County 11/3/2013 “The are not gone who pass beyond the clasp of hand, out from the stone embrace. They are but come so close we need not … Continue reading
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Tagged Day of the Dead, death, Emerson, history, memory, poetry
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