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Praying with Fringes 11/15/2013 – Motto for the dark times
Motto Bertolt Brecht In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will be singing About the dark times.
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Praying with Fringes 11/18/2013 – Stopping Along the Way
Stopping along the Way David Wagoner Heading south toward campus, my car stops suddenly, abruptly, almost on its own. My right foot has found the brake pedal before my eyes can admire a very young...
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Praying with Fringes 11/19/2013 – If time is a river flowing
דִּבְרֵי תּוֹרָה / Blessing of Revelation Group 1: If time is a river flowing are you on the bank, watching or in the river, swimming or floating? Group 2: When you work, are you standing still while time...
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Praying with Fringes 11/20/2013 – Sabbath 1979 I
Sabbath 1979 I Wendell Berry I go among trees and sit still. All my stirring becomes quiet around me like circles on water. My tasks lie in their places where I left them, asleep like cattle. Then what...
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Praying with Fringes 11/21/2013 – Longing
Longing Julie Cadwallader-Staub Consider the blackpoll warbler. She tips the scales at one ounce before she migrates, taking off from the seacoast to our east flying higher and higher ascending two or...
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Praying with Fringes 11/22/2013 – Parting the Red Sea
Parting the Red Sea Ellie Schoenfeld My fingers swim through red clay seas that I am parting to plant tulips. The earth is cold because I have waited till the last minute. I am thinking this is an act...
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Praying with Fringes 11/25/2013 – The Patience of Ordinary Things
The Patience of Ordinary Things Pat Schneider It is a kind of love, is it not? How the cup holds the tea, How the chair stands sturdy and foursquare, How the floor receives the bottoms of shoes Or...
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Praying with Fringes 11/26/2013 – Have you ever noticed a tree
Have you ever noticed a tree standing naked against the sky, How beautiful it is? All its branches are outlined, and in its nakedness There is a poem, there is a song. Every leaf is gone and it...
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Praying with Fringes 11/27/2013 – This is what life does
Starfish Eleanor Lerman This is what life does. It lets you walk up to the store to buy breakfast and the paper, on a stiff knee. It lets you choose the way you have your eggs, your coffee. Then it...
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Praying with Fringes 11/28/2013 – such grace is god
the lesson of the falling leaves Lucille Clifton the leaves believe such letting go is love such love is faith such faith is grace such grace is god i agree with the leaves from The Collected Poems of...
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Praying with Fringes 11/30/2013 – ask me / mistakes I have made
Ask Me William Stafford Sometime when the river is ice ask me mistakes I have made. Ask me whether what I have done is my life. Others have come in their slow way into my thought, and some have tried...
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Praying with Fringes 12/01/2013 – World AIDs Day: Bless this body
Bless This Body, The House of My Soul adapted from Rabbi Miriam Senturia We bless the beauty, the intricacy, the softness and hardness, The creative, life-sustaining powers of our bodies. We bless the...
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Praying with Fringes 12/02/2013 – You must have shadow and light source both
The Trees of Awe Rumi How does part of the world leave the world? How can wetness leave water? Don’t try to put out a fire by throwing on more fire. Don’t wash a wound with blood. No matter how fast...
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Praying with Fringes 12/03/2013 – the spilled wine of our living
So it remains Susan Griffin So it remains to reassemble whatever we can on this holy or unholy day on this day like any other remembering letting words fall into our mouths like bits of a shared meal...
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Praying with Fringes 12/04/2013 – we come at last to the dark
Sabbaths 2002 III Wendell Berry We come at last to the dark and enter in. We are given bodies newly made out of their absence from one another in the light of the ordinary day. We come to the spaces...
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Praying with Fringes 12/05/2013 – this bank on which the living gather
[This is what was bequeathed to us] Gregory Orr This is what was bequeathed us: This earth the beloved left And, leaving, Left to us. No other world But this one: Willows and the river And the factory...
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Praying with Fringes 12/06/2013 – I, may I rest in peace
I, May I Rest in Peace Yehuda Amichai translated by Chana Bloch and Chana Kronfeld I, may I rest in peace – I, who am still living, say, May I have peace in the rest of my life. I want peace right now...
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Praying with Fringes 12/08/2013 – see how simple it really is
then Alicia Ostriker after that it snowed a crispy inch or so and after this the sky resumed her rinsed blue scintillance and after that I remembered the birds so I filled the feeders with two kinds of...
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Praying with Fringes 12/10/2013 – invisible bears burrowed into dreams
from Almanac Alicia Ostriker How can we speak simply of winter light yesterday glitter glazed every twig in sight the universe shone like knives today the grey-lit overnight snow makes everything...
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Praying with Fringes 12/11/2013 – and the earth has a new language
from Snow Lisel Mueller Telephone poles relax their spines; sidewalks go under. The nightly groans of aging porches are put to sleep. Mercy sponges the lips of stairs. While we talk in the old...
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