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SONG: Mercy by Shawn Mendes: https://youtu.be/KkGVmN68ByU QUOTE: Maya Angelou: Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest. POEM: Jose Antonio Rodriguez: Mercy (excerpt) … if you find me hereErecting the same elements With these meager tools, Wanting even now to give them life, That […]
SONG: Rend Your Heart by MNaria Gilpin: https://youtu.be/srhuEphj9Y0 POEM: HD (Hilda Doolittle): Garden (excerpt). II. O wind, rend open the heat, cut apart the heat, rend it to tatters. Fruit cannot drop through this thick air— fruit cannot fall into heat that presses up and blunts the points of pears and rounds the grapes. Cut […]
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: Return to Innocence: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rk_sAHh9s08 POEM: The Return (excerpt) by Ezra Pound. … See, they return, one, and by one, With fear, as half-awakened; As if the snow should hesitate And murmur in the wind, and half turn back; These were the “Wing’d-with-Awe,” inviolable. QUOTE: JRR Tolkien: I sit beside the fire and think of […]
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 […]