mjae

One M's Musings and Occasional Insights

Tuesday, January 07, 2014

2013

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It must be transition time again, because here I am, feeling the need to show up again on the page. And finding myself here, finding so ma...
Tuesday, September 04, 2012

Body and Soul (poem) by B.H. Fairchild

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Half-numb, guzzling bourbon and Coke from coffee mugs, our fathers fall in love with their own stories, nuzzling the facts but mauling the t...
Friday, April 06, 2012

Heaven Is Not Verbose: A Notebook (poem) by Vera Pavlova

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[abridged by me. Full version available here .] My writing: hard-boiled. My life: scrambled soft. • The cud of thinking: by th...
Friday, February 17, 2012

God Went to Beauty School (poem) by Cynthia Rylant

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He went there to learn how to give a good perm and ended up just crazy about nails so He opened up His own shop. “Nails by Jim” ...
Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Scheduling

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I found myself yesterday thinking this little gem: "I wish I didn't schedule so many activities so that I could have more spac...
Monday, August 01, 2011

Relationship Questions

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My homework in the next week: What imbalance do you find in your relationship? What might that imbalance represent symbolically? What can be...
Sunday, July 31, 2011

35th Year

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In my 35th year, the last grandparents' ashes successfully sprinkled in their final resting place, I find myself casting about for how t...
Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Memorial for Jack & Judy Hart

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You were hard -- so rigid you never moved an inch from each other fused instead like two trees into one, trunks locked in a death-grip e...
Friday, July 15, 2011

Working Principles

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Ten Principles To Live By In Fiercely Complex Times BY Tony Schwartz Wed Jul 13, 2011 If you...

Formula for Change

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Alan Webber, co-founder of Business Week, wrote that change is a math formula. Change happens when the cost of status quo is greater than t...
Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Invitation - Rev. Angela Herrera

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This is a prayer of invitation. An invitation To you there, with your happiness and your burden, With your hopes and regrets. An invitation ...
Thursday, April 28, 2011

Barbara Ras - Washing the Elephant

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Isn’t it always the heart that wants to wash the elephant, begging the body to do it with soap and water, a ladder, hands, in tree shade big...

If You Forget Me - Pablo Neruda

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I want you to know one thing. You know how this is: if I look at the crystal moon, at the red...

Knowing You're in Trouble

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I know I'm in trouble when I don't write in a journal or a blog or random pieces of paper in church. I know I'm in trouble when ...

A Tomb Is No Place to Stay - Richard Gilbert

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A tomb is no place to stay, Be it a cave in the Judaean hills Or the dark cavern of the spirit. A tomb is no place to stay When fresh grass ...
Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Autumn - Rainer Maria Rilke

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The leaves are falling, falling as if from far up, as if orchards were dying high in space. Each leaf falls as if it were motionin...

West Wind #2 - Mary Oliver

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You are young. So you know everything. You leap into the boat and begin rowing. But listen to me. Without fanfare, without embarrass...

Biding Time

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One of my beloved friends wrote today about biding her time. Seems to have struck a nerve. After all my waiting for months to find steady e...
Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Making It Last

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Making it last, we put more faith in the process than in the fruits of our labor. We love the hand-holding, embrace the moments of confron...

Reaping What You Sow

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Thank god some of what returns to us is the bounty of our gratitude matured, seeds of patience flourishing to fall lavishly on the present l...
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