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"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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Aug 30, 20161 min read


"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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Jul 10, 20161 min read


"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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Jun 15, 20161 min read


"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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Jun 8, 20161 min read


"Unconditional surrender to Nature..." by John Muir
"I am glad to know... that my unconditional surrender to Nature has produced exactly what you have foreseen - that drifting without human...

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May 26, 20161 min read


"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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May 14, 20161 min read


"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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Apr 25, 20161 min read


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My old phone was completly losing it. It was behaving in very weird ways, and someone told me that I had to change it. I was very...

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Mar 11, 20161 min read


"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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Feb 17, 20161 min read


"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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Feb 17, 20161 min read


"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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Feb 1, 20161 min read


"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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Jan 28, 20161 min read


"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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Jan 6, 20161 min read


"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...

susanalabordeblaj
Dec 1, 20151 min read


"In the silence of the Heart..." by Mother Theresa
In the silence of the heart God speaks. If you face God in prayer and silence, God will speak to you. Then you will know that you are...

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Oct 14, 20151 min read


"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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Oct 6, 20151 min read


"Forward!", by Susana Laborde-Blaj
The taste of the still warm cherry tomatoes was so sweet and delicious. I grabbed them this afternoon from the plant, and they felt...

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Sep 22, 20153 min read


"Let The Colors Be", by Susana Laborde-Blaj
As much as I love to teach, I also love my free days. On free days, life goes a little bit slower, and sometimes pajamas are required,...

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Jul 7, 20155 min read


"Trees" by Joyce Kilmer
I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is prest Against the earth’s sweet flowing breast; A...

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Jun 25, 20151 min read


"In the Interior of Heaven" by Netzahualcoyotl
There alone in the interior of heaven You invent your word, Giver of Life! What will you decide? En el Interior del Cielo (Spanish...

susanalabordeblaj
Jun 25, 20151 min read
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