Compatibility of Opposites
Never have I experienced the magical glory of contrasts until this particular morning deep inside new mountain spring where wildwood forest gardens...
View ArticleTell Obama to CLOSE GITMO now
http://www.change.org/petitions/president-obama-close-detention-facility-at-guantanamo-bayTo get some of the most reliable information go here:http://andyworthington.co.uk
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From Gitmo: Sufi Man of Peace Speaks Out
From Guantánamo, Younus Chekhouri Speaks About the Prison Clampdown: “Everyone is Traumatized by What Happened”9.5.13Three weeks ago, as part of my ongoing coverage of the prison-wide hunger strike at...
View ArticleMother's Day began with a Non-Violent Vision
At first glance, Mother's Day appears a quaint and conservative holiday, a sort of greeting card moment, honoring 1950s values, a historical throw back to old-fashioned notions of hearth and home....
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Endless Heart of Spring
Today is a day of birch bark peeling back, opening, making a place for sunlight to land;A day for the dance of memory -- for Ruminating while settling back into the...
View ArticleHow Rich One Day Can Be
I awoke this am soon getting on my knees. Upon standing there was a depth of knowing within that this was/is on a new trek in my prayer life. The essence is that relating to God/Allah via prayer is so...
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"When heaven pulls earth into its arms..."
This blogsite is dedicated to my dear friends: N (who's name has to do with light), AWD and RW (also for his artist daughter, Summer)"soliel levant" by MonetMonet Refuses The Operationby Lisel...
View ArticleThe King of Time Knows
For my choice of a photo go here:http://www.flickr.com/photos/edanial/5366916225/From Rainer Marie Rilke(Especially for Sisters and Brothers of my Deepest Heart during Ramzan/Ramadan)From Rilke's Book...
View ArticleOn Joy and Sorrow
Ralph Waldo Emerson said:"There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior,like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us."From Kahlil Gibran:Then a woman said, "Speak to us of Joy and...
View ArticleAdvice for new writers (old ones too) By Ron Koertge
Do You Have Any Advice For Those of Us Just Starting Out?"Ron KoertgeGive up sitting dutifully at your desk. Leaveyour house or apartment. Go out into the world.It's all right to carry a notebook but a...
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CRY THE BELOVED COUNTRY: Alan Paton and his masterpiece is still alive today
The following is from internet site: "Cry, the Beloved Country Quotes" from the book by Alan Paton, written 1946-1947, published 1948 (Also see the film by the same name.) The book is a search for...
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Dorothy Day: Saint or Trouble-maker?
Icon Credit DDIconByTsai-sm This post is a very rough draft. I am sending it out to some friends who knew Dorothy Day (or of her) for personal reflections, quotes and stories. (Yet other readers are...
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RUMI on a Closeness Beyond Union
Don’t wish for union. There’s a closeness beyond that.This moment this love comes to rest in me,Many beings in one being.In one wheat-grain a thousand sheaf-stacks.Inside the needle’s eye, a turning...
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William Blake - Auguries of Innocence
(the part of this poem that I understand in part)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.A robin redbreast in a...
View ArticleALL Praises to the "Incorruptible and Righteous Judge of the World..."
Posting this brief item as a blessing to our Jewish readers upon the completion of the Jewish New Year High Holy Days,L'SHANAH TORAH I especially like this description of one aspect of The Holy One...
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Re-Post (My Poem to my Lover)
Since soon I will be returning (geographically) to the father of my precious children, my constant and encouraging supporter -- I wanted to post this poem (I wrote for my lifetime husband and lover)...
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Funny Strange
By Jennifer Michael Hecht We are tender and our lives are sweet And they are already over and we are visiting them in some kind of endless reprieve from oblivion, we are walking around in them and...
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To Live is an Act of Courage By Jennifer Michael Hecht
(google images; internet cache)We need a boot camp of the heart and of the psyche.In "Les Miserables", Victor Hugo writes a few striking sentences about profound inner pain and our duty to bear and...
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MAYORS WHO ACT RESPONSIBLY
Elvin DanielThe latest from MAYORS AGAINST ILLEGAL GUNSFrom Elvin: Last October, my sister Zina was shot and killed by her abusive estranged husband, even though she had a restraining order against...
View ArticleA Poem for Writers and Readers
Readers & writers alike could be helped by reading this poem when assessing the value and benefit of a work of art:The world stands out on either side.No wider than the heart is wide;Above the...
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Be dumbfounded
For the "in charge" people in my life: At times we are hidden, at times revealed;We are Muslims, Christians, Jews; of any race.Our hearts are shaped like any human heart,But every day we wear a...
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Faiz Ahmed Faiz: "When Autumn Came" (and went)
This is the way that autumn came to the trees:it stripped them down to the skin,left their ebony bodies naked.It shook out their hearts, the yellow leaves,scattered them over the ground.Anyone at all...
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The King of Time by Rainer Marie Rilke
"And God said to me, Paint:Time is the canvasstretched by my pain:the wounding of woman,the brothers’ betrayal,the city’s sad bacchanals,the madness of kings.And God said to me, Go forth:For I am king...
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Where do justice and peace kiss?
This became a new prayer for me last night when under some stress from various directions: A new reminder that peace isn't always passive or easy and yet the work must itself lead to peace:In...
View ArticleA Favorite Poet "The Journey"
The JourneyAbove the mountainsthe geese turn intothe light againpainting theirblack silhouetteson an open sky.Sometimes everythinghas to beinscribed acrossthe heavensso you can findthe one linealready...
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