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Packing up for Paradise I shall take along no shoulds or mustnts or oughtas I shall go pretty much as...

Packing Up for Paradise – James Broughton https://intrinsicheart.com/packing-up-for-paradise/ “A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home”...

This is how Hopper would have painted it:the line of yellow dryers catching the sunlight from the broad window. Man...

The reason children are excited to see what comes next is because they don’t assume they already know. They don’t...

  ~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~ AUTO MIRROR In the rear-view mirror suddenly I saw the bulk of the Beauvais Cathedral; great...

There Is No Word for Goodbye – Mary TallMountain https://blog.stabenow.com/2015/11/27/poem-for-the-month/ Quote from Lahiri Mahasaya:  “Always remember that you belong to...

CAMAS LILIES Consider the lilies of the field, the blue banks of camas opening into acres of sky along the...

INVICTUS Out of the night that covers me, Black as the Pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods...

Yesterday before bedtime I read Rumi’s poem “The Window Within the Soul.” I gave into the temptation to pull just...

I cannot do my work Because the birds keep saying I love you They rustle the leaves, they flutter and...