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Minding my life, Poetry
The paring knife of life keeps peeling. In restlessness, in exasperation, on the edge of falling, I keep coming to: What is essential here? It is a question both clean and powerful. It moves around the immovable, leaving bullshit in its wake. Sitting in that question is sitting in kindness…. [Continue Reading]
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Poetry HF
To have and to hold are, to be sure, quite different from to hope and to dream, which are also, to be sure, away — maybe somewhere with you but away nonetheless, which is where I sense you, on your own. I would not bind you to me (if even… [Continue Reading]
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Crushes, Time Capsule
A weekly Time Capsule, of sorts, in which I pause and notice. And write down what I love. And notice all the reasons I don’t want to die before my time. And get curious. And am inspired by Mary Oliver’s poem “Gratitude” (in What Do We Know). And do my… [Continue Reading]
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Crushes, Reviews
What moves you? I mean, what really moves you? What takes your breath away and renders you incapable of averting your eyes? What fascinates you? What grabs you by the collar and doesn’t let you go until you look, really look? What wakes you up in the middle of the… [Continue Reading]
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Time Capsule
A weekly Time Capsule, of sorts, in which I pause and notice. And write down what I love. And notice all the reasons I don’t want to die before my time. And get curious. And am inspired by Mary Oliver’s poem “Gratitude” (in What Do We Know). And do my… [Continue Reading]
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Musings
To get to know your heart, sometimes you have to sit in the dark. No night light. No flash light. No moon light. No stars. Alone, except for the ghosts flitting around you. And the wolf over by the window. And the snake in the corner. It’s so dark you… [Continue Reading]
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Time Capsule
A weekly Time Capsule, of sorts, in which I pause and notice. And write down what I love. And notice all the reasons I don’t want to die before my time. And get curious. And am inspired by Mary Oliver’s poem “Gratitude” (in What Do We Know). And do my… [Continue Reading]
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Time Capsule
Time Capsule Thursdays, in which I pause and notice. And write down what I love. And notice all the reasons I don’t want to die before my time. And get curious. And am inspired by Mary Oliver’s poem “Gratitude” (in What Do We Know). And do my own little tradition… [Continue Reading]
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