Borrowed Wisdom
Wednesday, May 6, 2020
A Paradise Built in Hell, Rebecca Solnit
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"Disasters are, most basically, terrible, tragic, grievous, and no matter what positive side effects and possibilities they produce,...
Tuesday, April 14, 2020
Thanks, by W. S. Merwin
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Listen with the night falling we are saying thank you we are stopping on the bridges to bow from the railings we are running out o...
Monday, March 23, 2020
A Plagued Journey, Maya Angelou
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There is no warning rattle at the door nor heavy feet to stomp the foyer boards. Safe in the dark prison, I know that l...
Friday, January 27, 2017
Heavy, Hieu Minh Nguyen
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The narrow clearing down to the river I walk alone, out of breath my body catching on each branch. Small children maneuver around me. Often,...
Wednesday, August 3, 2016
Cake, by Noah Eli Gordon
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Look, you want it you devour it and then, then good as it was you realize it wasn’t what you exactly wanted what you wanted exactly was want...
Wednesday, August 12, 2015
The Trauma of Everyday Life, Mark Epstein
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When we stop distancing ourselves from the pain in the world, our own or others, we create the possibility of a new experience, one that oft...
Monday, August 10, 2015
Another Poem, by Geoffrey G. O'Brien
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I bypassed all the compromise, The first ten problems of speech And the latest, the sharpest, the contest, Then began, having already fal...
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