No Escape by Sylvie Pickering The Uses of Sorrow by Mary Oliver (In my sleep I dreamed this poem) Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this, too, was a gift. I am never… Read More
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Chop Wood, Carry Water, Shut Your Trap
Some rights reserved by Arno Arno “…All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well.” ~Julian of Norwich Litany Against Fear from the Bene Gesserit Rite I must not fear.Fear is the mind-killer.Fear is the little-death that… Read More
Cold and Silence in the Early Dark
Some rights reserved by Leah Makin Photography Today, in church, we talked of transience. After, during silent meditation, a vision: I was sitting, covered in crows, self as a bare-branched tree…until they all flew away, and I was both gone and free. Gone and free.… Read More
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