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Hate and Ignorance
I have tried to stop reading the comments in on-line news, and stopped reading many blogs, because of the relentless hate and ignorance. I am compiling a new list of inspiring blogs (see the sidebar) to reassure myself that there are those working for peace and beauty.
Then I came across this quote from John [...]
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Gratitude
The Stars Look On
The day will come
When the sight of this earth will be lost
I will take my leave in silence
As the stars look on
I know the sun will rise again
The hours will still bring pleasure and pain
In heaving waves.
When I think of the end, time crumbles
I see by the light of death
That the lowliest [...]
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Down to the Bone
or maybe just the bare skin. Since we made the decision to move to West Virginia (and in some ways before that, while we were contemplating), we had been stripping things away.
The summer before we retired, once we knew we were selling our house, we packed away all the knick-knacks. We have tried not to [...]
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Being There
Our house is the last on the street before it starts downhill toward the West Fork River. The ground slopes away all around the back, so we look down on the roofs on the next street. Our grown children, raised on the flat in Texas, arriving at night when they first saw it, said “You [...]
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Meditation is just to be here. This can mean doing the dishes, writing a letter, driving a car, or having a conversation – if we’re fully engaged in this activity of the moment, there is no plotting or scheming or ulterior purpose. This full engagement is meditation. It doesn’t mean anything but itself.
To look for [...]
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Ordinary Things
Another gleaning from my grappling with purpose and searching for sustenance: this poem, The Patience of Ordinary Things, by Pat Schneider.
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More Grappling
Lao Tzu, the Taoist sage, says that a whole and decent life can be lived in a small village. Bodhidharma, the founder of Zen, spent nine years living in a cave without bustling about. To be worried about making money, expanding, developing, growing cash crops, and shipping them out is not the way of the [...]
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Grappling with Purpose
Grappling with purpose, overcome by the dishonesty, delusion, hostility, and negativity in so much of what I read, and surfing through other blogs to find the sustaining:
We are small. Anything we do is small next to God. But our tiny actions, our attempts to restore order, peace, harmony, love, hospitality, and generosity into our surroundings [...]
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Black Lace
The crows are molting. Sailing overhead, their wings are like black lace against the blue sky.
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Summer Squash Casserole
We bought our first squash of the season at the new farmer’s market in Bridgeport this morning, and soon after my brother emailed asking for this recipe.
Mother found this recipe while I was in college – we never had squash of any kind growing up. My father used to tell a story about squash and [...]
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