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I’m like one of those Japanese bowls That were made long ago I have some cracks in me They have been filled with gold That’s what they used ...

 "Sometimes when you're in a dark place, you think you've been buried, but actually, you've been planted."

  Water carries sunlight along a narrow twisting stream; sunlight glitters on the water’s back light among dark trees. I watch a hawk in the...

That time I thought I could not go any closer to grief without dying I went closer, and I did not die. Surely God had his hand in this, as ...

 

We, this people, on this small and drifting planet Whose hands can strike with such abandon That in a twinkling, life is sapped from the liv...

When my father worked on the Hubble Telescope, he said They operated like surgeons: scrubbed and sheathed In papery green, the room a clean ...

No one knew or at least I didn’t know they knew what the thin disks threaded here on my shirt might give me in terms of joy this is not some...

 Loving Brainpicking today! Poet and Philosopher David Whyte on Anger, Forgiveness, and What Maturity Really Means ANGER is the deepest form...

So few grains of happiness measured against all the dark and still the scales balance. The world asks of us only the strength we have and we...

 What's the right metaphor? Oil and water. Knit and perl? We are made from the same cloth, yet in taking shape for one, we shape the oth...

  Full poem here . Say these words when you lie down and when you rise up, when you go out and when you return. In times of mourning and in ...

  Is that Eric Garner worked for some time for the Parks and Rec. Horticultural Department, which means, perhaps, that with his very large h...

 

Through the window screen I can see an angle of grey roof and the silence that spreads in the branches of the pecan tree as the sun goes dow...

When I heard he had entered the harbor, and circled the wharf for days, I expected the worst: shallow water, confusion, some accident to bri...

The things to do have been done, well, for the most part. The people we need are in place, almost. We are ready, or as ready as we will be. ...

 Weird thing.  My family traveled to Umeå, Sweden a year ago for a memorial for my husband's mother. The kids, then 10 and 6, did great....

Barrett died this week. He went to see his doctor because he just wasn't feeling himself, and his heart stopped on the examining table. ...

Love is calling for liberation. Love is hoarse from calling, her voice raw from the decades she has spent chanting at protests and speaking ...