Last week, soon after returning from Africa, I received a gentle prod to post again.
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DOING NOTHING
On earth, there is no Heaven
But there are pieces of it.
—Jules Renard
WALKING THE PATH, WITH SPIRIT
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.—Robert Frost
Part of my experience in this lifetime is to acknowledge, through my writing, an expanded definition of reality…
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THE FEAR FACTOR
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
—Joseph Campbell
Last Sunday morning, there were so many souls packed into my Prius that I could only think: clown car.
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WORDS TO DIE FOR
The difference between the almost right and the right word is really a large matter—[it’s] the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.
—Mark Twain
Last week I was in Washington, D.C. with grandson-and-sidekick Ryder. And whether we found ourselves absorbing history’s most shocking headlines at the Newseum; decoding secret messages in a covert operation…
CRY, HEART, BUT NEVER BREAK
Death is not the opposite of life, but part of it.
—Haruki Harakami
Today, I shine a light on a Danish story in which four young children make the acquaintance of the grim reaper. In this particular “grim reaper’s” defense (and mine), the picture book Cry, Heart, But Never Break reveals Death as less grim than empathetic—even compassionate enough to have left his scythe outside at the door.
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WAR & PAX
You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grownups, then you write it for children.
—Madeleine L′Engle
Some books won’t let go. Two such children′s books have come into my life in recent months.
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LETTERS TO MY FUTURE SELF
Tell me, what is it you plan to do, with your one wild and precious life?
—Mary Oliver
