"Beannacht", by John O'Donohue
On the day when The weight deadens On your shoulders And you stumble, May the clay dance To balance you. And when your eyes Freeze behind...
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susanalabordeblaj
- Nov 30, 2016
- 1 min
"Song of the Builders", by Mary Oliver
On a summer morning I sat down on a hillside to think about God – a worthy pastime. Near me, I saw a single cricket; it was moving the...
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susanalabordeblaj
- Nov 19, 2016
- 1 min
"Awake Awhile", by Hafiz
Some years ago, during my Viniyoga Teacher Training, one of my teachers, Mirka Scalco Kraftsow, sang at the end of a practice part of...
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susanalabordeblaj
- Sep 26, 2016
- 1 min
Book of hours, II,16
How surely gravity’s law, strong as an ocean current, takes hold of even the smallest thing and pulls it toward the heart of the...
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susanalabordeblaj
- Aug 31, 2016
- 1 min
"Working together", by David Whyte
We shape our self to fit this world and by the world are shaped again. The visible and the invisible working together in common...
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susanalabordeblaj
- Jul 11, 2016
- 1 min
"I ask all Blessings...", Anonymous Navajo
I ask all blessings, I ask them with reverence, of my mother earth, of the sky, moon, and sun my father I am old age, the essence of...
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susanalabordeblaj
- Jun 15, 2016
- 1 min
"Cutting Loose", by William Stafford
Sometimes from sorrow, for no reason, you sing. For no reason, you accept the way of being lost, cutting loose from all else and electing...
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susanalabordeblaj
- Jun 9, 2016
- 1 min
"Story Water", by Jalaluddin Rumi
A story is like water that you heat for your bath. It takes messages between the fire and your skin. It lets them meet, and it cleans...
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susanalabordeblaj
- May 15, 2016
- 1 min
"Faith", by David Whyte
I want to write about faith, about the way the moon rises over cold snow, night after night, faithful even as it fades from fullness,...
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susanalabordeblaj
- Apr 25, 2016
- 1 min
"Dreaming True", by Robert Moss
It is not enough to be able to drop your body as easily as a bathrobe, take flight like the eagle, enter the hollow hills, talk with...
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susanalabordeblaj
- Feb 17, 2016
- 1 min
"Loneliness", by Mary Oliver
I too have known loneliness. I too have known what it is to feel misunderstood, rejected, and suddenly not at all beautiful. Oh, mother...
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susanalabordeblaj
- Feb 17, 2016
- 1 min
"You Reading This, Be Ready", by William Stafford
Starting here, what do you want to remember? How sunlight creeps along a shining floor? What scent of old wood hovers, what softened...
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susanalabordeblaj
- Feb 2, 2016
- 1 min
"Miracles", by Walt Whitman
Why, who makes much of a miracle? As to me I know of nothing else but miracles, Whether I walk the streets of Manhattan, Or dart my sight...
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susanalabordeblaj
- Jan 28, 2016
- 1 min
"Out Beyond Ideas..." by Rumi
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I'll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is...
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susanalabordeblaj
- Jan 7, 2016
- 1 min
"Why I Wake Early", by Mary Oliver
Hello, sun in my face. Hello, you who made the morning and spread it over the fields and into the faces of the tulips and the nodding...
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susanalabordeblaj
- Dec 1, 2015
- 1 min
"Today I was Happy, so I made this Poem", by James Wright
As the plump squirrel scampers Across the roof of the corncrib, The moon suddenly stands up in the darkness, And I see that it is...
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susanalabordeblaj
- Oct 6, 2015
- 1 min
"Birdwings" by Jalaluddin Rumi
Your grief for what you’ve lost lifts a mirror up to where you’re bravely working Expecting the worst, you look, and instead here’s the...
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susanalabordeblaj
- Jun 2, 2015
- 2 min
"For the Traveler", by John O'Donohue
Here is a beautiful blessing for all travelers, by John O'Donohue For the Traveler Every time you leave home, Another road takes you Into...
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susanalabordeblaj
- May 25, 2015
- 1 min
"Wild Geese", by Mary Oliver
You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting. You only have to let...
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susanalabordeblaj
- May 22, 2015
- 1 min
"Look and See", by Mary Oliver
This morning, at waterside, a sparrow flew to a water rock and landed, by error, on the back of an eider duck; lightly it fluttered off,...
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