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“Everything good needs time. Don’t do work in a hurry. Go into details; it pays in every way. Time means power for your work. Mediocrity is always in a rush; but whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing with consideration. For genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly.” ~ Amelia Barr, …
Today, by Billy Collins If ever there were a spring day so perfect,so uplifted by a warm intermittent breeze that it made you want to throwopen all the windows in the house and unlatch the door to the canary’s cage,indeed, rip the little door from its jamb, a day when the cool brick pathsand the garden bursting with peonies seemed …
Lying there among the trees, despite a learned wariness towards anthropomorphism, I find it hard not to imagine these arboreal relations in terms of tenderness, generosity and even love: the respectful distance of their shy crowns, the kissing branches that have pleached with one another, the unseen connections forged by root and hyphae between seemingly distant trees. I remember something …
If you suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy, don’t hesitate. Give in to it. There are plenty of lives and whole towns destroyed or about to be. We are not wise, and not very often kind. And much can never be redeemed. Still, life has some possibility left. Perhaps this is its way of fighting back, that sometimes something happens better than …
I’ve been blessed in my daily walks with inspiration and a repair of my spirit. This quote from Rachel Carson, author of Silent Spring, really speaks to me. “Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature…the assurance …
a poem by Rainer Maria Rilke(1875 – 1926) English version by Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy Want the change. Be inspired by the flamewhere everything shines as it disappears.The artist, when sketching, loves nothing so muchas the curve of the body as it turns away. What locks itself in sameness has congealed.Is it safer to be gray and numb?What turns …
Elizabeth Bishop’s heartfelt villanelle, One Art, eloquently speaks to our current moment. Bishop’s epitaph, which she wrote herself, is this: “All the untidy activity continues,awful but cheerful.” ONE ARTby Elizabeth Bishop The art of losing isn’t hard to master;so many things seem filled with the intentto be lost that their loss is no disaster. Lose something every day. Accept the …
An excerpt from Praise Song for the Day by Elizabeth Alexander, which was read at Barack Obama’s inauguration. Praise Song for the Day (excerpt) Some live by love thy neighbor as thyself, others by first do no harm or take no more than you need. What if the mightiest word is love? Love beyond marital, filial, national,love that casts a …
When people say, “we have made it through worse before” — Clint Smith all I hear is the wind slapping against the gravestonesof those who did not make it, those who did notsurvive to see the confetti fall from the sky, those who did not live to watch the parade roll down the street.I have grown accustomed to a lifetime …
… I love poet Lucille Clifton. Here’s her gorgeous short poem, “blessing the boats.” may the tidethat is entering even nowthe lip of our understandingcarry you outbeyond the face of fearmay you kissthe wind then turn from itcertain that it willlove your back may youopen your eyes to waterwater waving foreverand may you in your innocencesail through this …