Near the Wall of a House – Yehuda Amichai
https://intrinsicheart.com/love-is-not-the-last-room/
The Last Time – K. Ashley
https://www.facebook.com/groups/343316077145859/posts/1018054059672054/
I Pray – Jorge de Lima (Excerpt) [I could not find this online, but here is the text – first in Portuguese-Brazilian, then translated into English from the Brazilian]
“Rezo, rezo. / E a prece é um murmúrio de águas vivas entre as ruínas do meu corpo.”
“I pray, I pray. / And the prayer is a murmur of living waters among the ruins of my body.”
Laws for Creations – Walt Whitman
https://whitmanarchive.org/item/ppp.01663_01878
Spring – Gerard Manley Hopkins
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/51002/spring-56d22e75d65bd
They Speak to Me – Krishna Hundekari
“A blooming flower and a dying bee / To them I listen, for they speak to me.”
Another Sama – Matty Weingast
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/10295123-written-2-600-years-ago-another-sama-after-twenty-five-years-on
Bald Eagle – Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
https://ahundredfallingveils.com/2020/12/10/bald-eagle/
How Shall I Begin My Song – Owl Woman (Translated from the Tohono O’odham language by Frances Densmore)
https://leonarddurso.com/2014/02/02/how-shall-i-begin-my-song-by-owl-woman/
[Untitled] – Jeannette B. Hedstrom [I could not find this online]
First lines: “Today, I saw a flower / She stood alone on a hill—not admired, not observed.”
Quote from James Baldwin (excerpt): “You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.” (Source cited by Quote Investigator online: New York Times, May 31, 1964: “James Baldwin Recalls His Childhood.”)
Quote from Margaret Atwood: “The desire to be loved is the last illusion. Give it up and you will be free.” (Source cited online is Selected Poems II (1976-1986).)
For Presence – John O’Donohue (from: To Bless the Space Between Us: A Book of Blessings)
https://ascideas.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/for-presence-odonohue.pdf
At the hang-out after the gathering, when the readings and discussion were done, Pat described her amazing trip to Antarctica, and we promised to post information about a book she recommended. Here’s Pat’s recommendation: “The book is Antarctica: An Intimate Portrait of a Mysterious Planet by Gabrielle Walker. The chapter, ‘Mars on Earth’ is especially intriguing regarding meteorite fields, the geology of the meteorites and the research into their contents, and the sources of those contents from around the universe.”
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