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Mystics, Poets, and Fools: August 2012
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Mystics, Poets, and Fools. Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul, And sings the song without the words and never stops at all." - Emily Dickinson. Wednesday, August 29, 2012. Death is Darned Inconvenient. 8220;Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.”. It turns out that dying takes a very long time, is extremely unpleasant, and darned inconvenient. I don’t recommend it. What’s to like...
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Mystics, Poets, and Fools: September 2008
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Mystics, Poets, and Fools. Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul, And sings the song without the words and never stops at all." - Emily Dickinson. Tuesday, September 30, 2008. Kevin and I have recently been shaping up some plans for the property: where to plant the blueberries, how to fence in the acre across the road, what to plant in the kitchen garden next year… that sort of thing. It was the most beautiful spot on the whole property. I’m sure it was a bit of a scandal to the ...
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Mystics, Poets, and Fools: Now All I Need is an Obama Bumper Sticker
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Mystics, Poets, and Fools. Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul, And sings the song without the words and never stops at all." - Emily Dickinson. Wednesday, October 10, 2012. Now All I Need is an Obama Bumper Sticker. October 9, 2012. Dear President Obama,. I registered to vote today. I decided you could use the help. I haven’t voted since I helped to re-elect Bill Clinton, a fact which I am still ambivalent about. Since then, I have tended to stay away from elections. And yet you did.
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Mystics, Poets, and Fools: October 2012
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Mystics, Poets, and Fools. Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul, And sings the song without the words and never stops at all." - Emily Dickinson. Wednesday, October 17, 2012. Long long ago, in a galaxy far far away, I was a professional technical writer and editor. Then I had kids, and Kevin and I started our beekeeping business, and we moved out of Silicon Valley, and we had many adventures together. Writing occupied a minor role in my life for fifteen years. In What Would Google Do?
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Mystics, Poets, and Fools: June 2009
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Mystics, Poets, and Fools. Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul, And sings the song without the words and never stops at all." - Emily Dickinson. Monday, June 15, 2009. It's All very Simple, Really. Lord, let my own song come from Your Foundation. Amen. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). I live with my husband and five children in a little white house on a windy hill in Ohio. I am a member of Ohio Yearly Meeting of Friends. I am a conservative Friend, a convergent Friend, a Christian...Frien...
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Mystics, Poets, and Fools: Walking Unarmed in an Armed World
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Mystics, Poets, and Fools. Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul, And sings the song without the words and never stops at all." - Emily Dickinson. Tuesday, September 4, 2012. Walking Unarmed in an Armed World. Jesse-Blue Forrest has been staying at my meeting’s guest house this week. He is a Quaker Cherokee medicine man, with Buddhist training. When he is at home in Charlottesville, N.C., he worships with the Charlottesville Friends Meeting. After several years underground in the U....
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Mystics, Poets, and Fools: A Long Comment that Ought to Appear under "On the Hope Inherent in Opening One's Mouth"
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Mystics, Poets, and Fools. Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul, And sings the song without the words and never stops at all." - Emily Dickinson. Saturday, April 3, 2010. A Long Comment that Ought to Appear under "On the Hope Inherent in Opening One's Mouth". When I say "married couple," by the way, I am not limiting my comments to legally. Married couples. Quakers believe that a marriage is made by God, not by state paperwork. Our Quaker forebears 350 years ago were accused o...Secon...
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Mystics, Poets, and Fools: March 2010
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Mystics, Poets, and Fools. Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul, And sings the song without the words and never stops at all." - Emily Dickinson. Saturday, March 27, 2010. On the Hope Inherent in Opening One’s Mouth. For $6. So naturally I bought it. Harvey considered it a political act for people to come out openly as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender (LGBT). He firmly believed that if people knew that they knew someone who was LGBT, then it would be easier for people to acc...
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Left Libertarian Quaker: November 2007
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Left, because the poor are being robbed. Libertarian, because he who lives by the sword dies by the sword. Quaker, in order to know and worship in simplicity and in truth the Light which is the Life of all things. NOTE TO SELF, BASED ON QUAKER TESTIMONIES OF INTEGRITY, SIMPLICITY, PEACE, EQUALITY, AND COMMUNITY:. The Lord your God with all your heart, mind and soul, and your neighbor as yourself. 2 Do what you say, say what you think, think what is true. 4 Don't initiate aggression. And I found this part...
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