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By the pretty and the mischievous
The ancients are right: the dear old human experience is a singular, difficult, shadowed, brilliant experience that does not resolve into being comfortable in the world. The valley of the shadow is part of that, and you are depriving yourself if you do not experience what humankind has experienced, including doubt and sorrow. We experience pain and ( Read more... ) -
continue/ to do what such plants do
A Small Needful Fact by Ross Gay ( Read more... ) -
Two poems for Orlando
cadencia (a poem for Orlando) by Martina “Mick” Powell link
for KJ Morris and all the beautiful people we lost in Orlando, FL on June 12, 2016& that night ( Read more... ) -
I used to not believe/ in fairy tales
Jeffrey McDaniel, "The First Straw ( Read more... ) -
Being admired/ by strangers was not enough
Song for the Festival by Gretchen Marquette ( Read more... ) -
Through the cold needle of my life now
Did You See the Sky ( Read more... ) -
Quotes I've enjoyed lately
“To engage in activism that envisions alternatives ways of organizing society and alternative ways of being is to risk membership in society, a sense of belonging, however partial it may be. Activism can make us vulnerable because it is so obviously about wanting something beyond what is, and to have a political desire often is construed as wanting ( Read more... ) -
Mine to yours, yours to mine
When Giving Is All We Have by Alberto Ríos
One river gives
Its journey to the next.We give because someone gave to us ( Read more... ) -
I will pass through this
"The ancients are right: the dear old human experience is a singular, difficult, shadowed, brilliant experience that does not resolve into being comfortable in the world. The valley of the shadow is part of that, and you are depriving yourself if you do not experience what humankind has experienced, including doubt and sorrow. We experience pain ( Read more... )
