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Image Locale This side of heaven, where do you suppose this side of heaven is? “It’s not a place you can get to by a boat or a train. It’s far, far away. Behind the moon, beyond the rain.” So said the rubyslipper-ed one just before she sung that unforgettable song: Over the Rainbow. Behind [...]

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I love what Wendell Berry writes of in this poem.  A Mother’s love that is so willing to rest always in love.  No matter what little or big things come up, that love remains.  In other words, those things that can come up — she ‘pays it no mind’. Believing in someone is always a [...]

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“I got sleepy while driving and pulled in under a tree at the side of the road.  Rolled up in the back seat and went to sleep.  How long?  Hours.  Darkness had come. All of a sudden I was awake, and didn’t know who I was.  I’m fully conscious, but that doesn’t help.  Where am [...]

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Image Locale The other day I was perusing my online bank statement.  There were a series of three debits made on my account.  All on the same day to the same corporation in two different locations in Pennsylvania.  While I have family in Pennsylvania, on the day in question, March 27th, I was here in [...]

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When They Sleep

I’m usually not in the business of pilfering poems.  I like to find my own that resonate with me to post here; yet I’ve shamelessly swiped this one from Panhala because it so spoke to me – such a softness and a gentle yielding in this poem.  You can join Panhala at panhala@yahoogroups.com, if you [...]

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Image by Feng Jiang Existence is beyond the power of words To define: Terms may be used But are none of them absolute. In the beginning of heaven and earth there were no words, Words came out of the womb of matter; And whether a man dispassionately Sees to the core of life Or passionately [...]

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To see a world in a Grain of Sand, And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour. ~William Blake~

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Why does an easy path, so clearly marked it is impossible to lose the way, seem thorny, rough and far too difficult for you to follow? Is it not because you see it as the road to hell instead of looking on it as a simple way, without a sacrifice or any loss, to find [...]

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