There’s a man goin’ ’round, takin’ names There’s a man goin’ ’round, takin’ names An’ he took my father’s name An’ he leave my heart in pain There’s a man goin’ ’round, takin’ names (And he works through mother, brother, sister, aunt, uncle, etc.) Brother and sister, aunt and uncle Man goin’ ’round takin’ names […]
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I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day. What hours, O what black hours we have spent This night! what sights you, heart, saw; ways you went! And more must, in yet longer light’s delay. With witness I speak this. But where I say Hours I mean years, mean life. And my lament
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… Halifax discusses many facets of compassion, in particular what we often refer to as “Whose need is it?” … ” … one can feel acutely distressed about the suffering of another and engage in behaviors that appear to be helpfulto the suffering person, but if he or she is motivated, consciously or unconsciously by
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To this hath Fate reduced The form, that, when with life it beamed, To us heaven’s liveliest image seemed. O Nature’s endless mystery! Jonathan Galassi has a new translation of Leopardi’s poems … he and others discussed at the New York Encounter. On the Portrait of a Beautiful Woman CARVED ON HER MONUMENT. Such _wast_
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Balfour Mount quotes Phil Simmons … The thing itself, like the predawn moment, is always new when we are truly present to it. I would concur with Phil: “More and more I find that dwelling in the present moment, in the face of everything that would call us out of it, is our highest spiritual
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… and as he lacks experience of the event he bungles it. So that he may die successfully, he must learn how to die by following the instruction of experienced men who know what it means to die in the midst of life. Asceticism gives us this experience of death. (Florensky)(quoted in The World of
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… Ira Byock’s Four Things That Matter Most … ‘forgive me, I forgive you, thank you, I love you’ … are fundamental tasks for all of us … and become especially important in the midst of serious illness. … similar to James Martin’s #11 … the rest are good too …
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… “We are story-telling animals. Some of our most important shared stories are in the form of metaphor, parable, and poetry. We communicate through imagination and intuition as much as reason and cognition. And we can find and communicate certain realities only indirectly, not directly. Some kinds of knowledge can be sought only by setting
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… ” Look at what he says: “No, the part that is reserved to each individual, that is, what God wants for you, must be done by you.” There is no excuse, because it is not up to us to choose the road through which the Mystery leads the other to his destiny. We are the ones who have
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No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief, More pangs will, schooled at forepangs, wilder wring. Comforter, where, where is your comforting? Mary, mother of us, where is your relief? My cries heave, herds-long; huddle in a main, a chief Woe, wórld-sorrow; on an áge-old anvil wince and sing — Then lull, then
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