“The heart remembers everything it loved and gave away, everything it lost and found again, and everyone it loved, the heart cannot forget.”
–Joyce Sutphen
love
Morning Trip (132)
“When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.”
– Marcus Aurelius
Morning Trip (129)
“There are great gashes in our world that we love with so much pain.”
–Muriel Rukeyser
The Blues
Wow! Yes, I am Listening!! Thank You for Giving Me Your Eyes
Today is mirror day…Phew!!! Thank you!
Morning Trip (112)
“I am not I.
I am this one
Walking beside me whom I do not see,
Whom at times I manage to visit,
And whom at other times I forget;
The one who remains silent when I talk,
The one who forgives, sweet, when I hate,
The one who takes a walk where I am not,
The one who will remain standing when I die.”
– Juan Ramon Jimenez
Dance Me to the End of Love
Morning Trip (109) and Syria, Do Humans Ever Learn? –or, no no but my phallus is bigger than yours
“And so our Civil War raised questions that have been raised a number of times since: Can you force people to change their hearts and minds? Can you make them good by violence? Again and again human nature has replied no. Again and again, ignoring human nature and history, politicians have answered yes. And yet it seems true that Martin Luther King Jr. and his followers, by refusing to answer violence with violence, did more to alter racial attitudes in the South than was done by all the death and damage of the Civil War.”
–Wendell Berry, imagination in place
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