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What can they do to you? Whatever they want.. They can set you up, bust you, they can break your fingers, burn your brain with electricity, ...

Learning to love differently is hard, love with the hands wide open, love with the doors banging on their hinges, the cupboard unlocked, the...

Snowflake burning to steam on a long poker Soft wood carved to gentle curve fitting a smaller space Raindrop crying down a window, magnifyin...

Together we will create brave space Because there is no such thing as a “safe space” We exist in the real world We all carry scars and we ha...

 My parents met at the University of New Mexico. My mom was studying anthropology, and my dad studied history (I think). They met singing in...

 

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...