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SONG: Fasting Song by James Ironshell: https://youtu.be/TLcqpegeI5o POEM: Jorie Graham: Fast (excerpt). Fast or starve. Too much. Or not enough. Or. Nothing else? QUOTE: Terry Pratchett: Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil … prayer, fasting, good works and so on.
SONG: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CX11yw6YL1w&feature=youtu.be QUOTE: Cormac McCarthy: All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one’s heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes. POEM: Tahar Ben Jelloun. The Rising of the Ashes [Before] – excerpt: I pace the abyss. I descend. I am suspended. The ashes still […]
SONG: Keep You Mine by NOTD, Shy Martin: https://youtu.be/fuI0bEdoF30 POEM: Joy Harjo: For Keeps (excerpt): … We know ourselves to be part of mystery. It is unspeakable. It is everlasting. It is for keeps. QUOTE: Coco Ginger: Wanting nothing in return, except that you allow me to keep you here in my heart, that I […]
Lenten Reflection Day 13 (Mar 6): HELP (from Psalm 121). SONG: Help! by The Beatles: https://youtu.be/2Q_ZzBGPdqE POEM: Ashanti Files: Martyr (excerpt): I don’t want to be a martyr, But I see you calling for my help. QUOTE: Carl Sagan: In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from […]
But let all who take refuge in you rejoice; let them ever sing for joy. Spread your protection over them … —Psalm 5:11 What is the way to the place where the light is distributed, or where the east wind is scattered upon the earth?—Job 38:24 ______________________________________ Joy is fueled by the same source as hope […]
