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One M's Musings and Occasional Insights

Sunday, August 30, 2020

Poem - There is a Light in Me - Anna Swir

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Whether in daytime or in nighttime I always carry inside a light. In the middle of noise and turmoil I carry silence. Always I carry light a...
Saturday, August 29, 2020

Poem - 2 a.m. - Dorianne Laux

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When I came with you that first time  on the floor of your office, the dirty carpet under my back, the heel of one foot propped on your shou...

Poem - Last Skin - Barbara Ras

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Has anyone described the smell of wishbones drying on the kitchen sill or the smell of glass, or the bucket of water lifted from the well we...

Poem - (After God Herself) - Justice Ameer

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Adam ate an apple it got stuck in his throat and they called him Eve the progenitor the creator of all things the mother of strength and for...
Tuesday, August 25, 2020

"Lost is a place, too." - Paula Stone Williams

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 In a TedxTalk about being a transgender woman and dealing with sexism. She's a preacher.
Tuesday, July 28, 2020

Understanding Racism - Allegories - A Gardener's Tale

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I keep going back to this video, where the public health researcher  Dr. Camara Phyllis Jones  tells 4 stories that help explain the differe...
Monday, July 27, 2020

Poem - Portrait of a Yo-Yo Artist - Caroline Harvey

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He's the kind of man that loves wide and strong but not often. I don't know why, but I hope it's me he chooses to notice next...
Sunday, July 26, 2020

Song - Amazing Gratitude - Hal Walker

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This is one of my favorite songs from UU church right now:
Saturday, July 25, 2020

Living Deeply

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Today was Alicia Hawkins' memorial on Zoom. I'm watching the postlude now. What a life well-lived. Her granddaughter shared that...
Wednesday, June 24, 2020

Coronavirus: Month 3

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We are three months into the coronavirus, and the only thing that's different now than when all this started is that now there are over ...
Monday, June 22, 2020

Song - Love One Another - words and music by Jason Shelton

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Sunday, May 31, 2020

Alicia Hawkins - Quote Collections

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Alicia Hawkins, beloved community member from First Unitarian in Albuquerque, New Mexico, passed away yesterday. A year or so ago, Alicia ...
Sunday, April 19, 2020

Song - Comfort Me - words and music by Mimi Bornstein

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This recording is from “Not Your Mama’s Hymns” by Unfolding (Laura Weiss and Sarah Jebian)
Saturday, April 18, 2020

I Am Legend

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I am being haunted by vague memories of this scary movie in which a global pandemic leaves this man living alone in his house with his dog, ...
Sunday, March 29, 2020

Poem - To Build a Swing - Hafiz

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You carry All the ingredients To turn your life into a nightmare -- Don’t mix them! You have all the genius To build a swing in your b...
Sunday, March 22, 2020

Week 1: Coronavirus Quarantine

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We just finished our first week -- not even a whole week -- at home together social distancing to flatten the curve, lowering the infection ...

Song - All Will Be Well - Meg Barnhouse

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Julian, you are holy, you are holding my hand. (x 2) She said, "All will be well, and all will be well, all manner of things wil...

Song - We Shall All Be Known - Karisha Longaker (MaMuse)

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Original by MaMuse: Cover by Thrive East Bay We shall be known by the company we keep By the ones who circle round to tend these ...
Thursday, March 12, 2020

Pandemic (poem) by Lynn Ungar

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What if you thought of it as the Jews consider the Sabbath— the most sacred of times? Cease from travel. Cease from buying and selling. ...
Saturday, February 22, 2020

Living Charly

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One of the most captivating and disturbing storylines to me is the backslide from some height of achievement. Remember the young adult book ...
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