Category: Poetic Rambling
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A Flower is Not Flower
A flower is not a flower. It is made only of non-flower elements – sunshine, clouds, time, space, earth, minerals, gardeners, and so on. A true flower contains the whole universe. If we return any one of these non-flower elements…
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A Thing that is Beautiful
“Things men have made with wakened hands, and put soft life into are awake through years with transferred touch, and go on glowing for years. And for this reason, some old things are lovely warm still with the life of…
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The Way They Were, the Way we Are
Each photo holds a moment that once felt permanent. What remains is not what we see, But a quiet truth- which is felt deeply, understood over time. Even though everything changes, these shifts don’t erase the connections that exist between…
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Stand up/Speak Out
« Episcopal Bishop, Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde, publicly called out Trump to his face today at a service at the National Cathedral in Washington, DC. This was some next level Jesus-style calling out the powerful that you rarely see exampled anymore.…
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How Poetry Tells the Truth
Recently, my friend Arnelle shared this haiku and it has stayed with me: “Barn’s burnt down, now I can see the moon.” — Mizuta Masahide (17th-century Japanese poet and samurai). The haiku awakens me to a deeper, more critical, and even cynical…
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The Happiness Jar
Via Melissa Gilbert The tale and idea is by Melissa Gilbert. Who said if her house was on fire her happiness jar would be the first thing she would tak. images and video can be seen here by sketches in…