Today’s prompt is to write a stop/don’t stop poem. I’m tired and my fingers are still struggling to learn how to type on the phone, so there’s a typo again. Sigh.
Some Quotations for the evening:
“The greatest danger to our future is apathy.” —Jane Goodall
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Make space in this house
for all of the people you are.
Make room for the schemer,
the doubter, the cynic,
but open some space
for the credulous child
and the mystic, the dreamer,
the wild one, the quiet one.
Open a space within
for the glass-half-full to dance
with the glass-half-empty,
for the monk to sing songs
of revolution with the fury.
There in those rooms,
the One may enter
and speak your many names,
saying, Peace be yours.
—Beth Weaver-Kreider
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“Did I offer peace today? Did I bring a smile to someone’s face? Did I say words of healing? Did I let go of my anger and resentment? Did I forgive? Did I love? These are the real questions. I must trust that the little bit of love that I sow now will bear many fruits, here in this world and the life to come.” —Henri Nouwen
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“In the end, we’ll all become stories.” —Margaret Atwood
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“Privilege is when you think something’s not a problem because it’s not a problem to you personally.” —attributed to many authors
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Dea Ex Machina
What we speak
we create.
Writing,
we make meaning
into existence.
These words, cogs
and gears, shift
meaning to matter:
“Let there be. . .”
And there is.
And it is good.
—Beth Weaver-Kreider
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