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Mark Twain’s Joan of Arc
“By far the most extraordinary person the human race has ever produced.” Mark Twain on Joan of Arc When Mark Twain wrote Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc in 1896 he was 61 years old and madly in love with his teenage heroine. While reading this book more than a century later, it’s hard not… Read more
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She Comes To Me
She comes to me in silent dreamsWhen there’s nothing to sayShe comes to me in whispersThat take my breath awayShe comes to me with questionsWhose answers break my heartShe comes to me with nothingThat becomes a work of artShe comes to me in memoriesAs brittle as old boneShe comes to me with lonelinessThat won’t… Read more
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Daffodil
All of us have moments of doubt, crises of faith or confidence that throw our hopes into disarray. Fortunately, there are graces – love, beauty, humor – that lower ropes into our pits of despair. For me, and maybe for you, one of the sturdiest ropes is music.The only thing better than those ropes is… Read more
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We Don’t Like That Image Of Ourselves
Some poetry from Marlon Brando, starting at 2:36 on the video below:Our schoolbooks are hopelessly lacking Perhaps criminally lacking in revealing what our relationship was with the Indians When we hear as we’ve heard throughout our lives no matter how old we are that we are a country that stands for freedom for rightness for justice… Read more
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Like Footsteps and Glances
Voices float, cross, melt, fade, and dissolvelike footsteps and glances Recognition sparks, jabs, irritates, and overwhelms like hunger and desire Breezes whisper, cling, insinuate, and ruffle like memory and forgetting Shadows fall, stretch, deepen, bite, and swallowlike animalsand passion Light imposes, hints, confronts, argues, and conquers like birth and death Time creeps, crawls, flies,… Read more
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Comfort Music
Some people turn to comfort food when anxiety starts gnawing at the corners of their souls. For me, it’s comfort music. With the practically unlimited resource of streaming music, I’ve been turning lately to the hippie bands I listened to a lot in high school but not much since: The Guess Who, The Doors, The… Read more
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