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“I assure you, we are bathed in love and mercy. We each have a Father, a Brother, a Friend, a Spouse of our soul, Center and King of our hearts, Redeemer and Savior, bend down over us, over our weakness and our impotence, like that of little children, with an inexpressible gentleness, watching over us like the apple of His eye, who said, “I will have mercy and not sacrifice”, a Jesus haunted by the desire to save us by all means, who has opened Heaven under our feet. And we live, too often like…
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The new Times expose on Ukraine is shocking, horrifying, enraging. Everyone involved with this caper needs to be sent up the river
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22 subscribers doesn't seem like a lot but if 22 people came to my house and asked me what I'm writing about it would be like crazy so it's a lot.
I never notice the last time I hear the songbirds or the night peepers as fall turns into winter, but I definitely notice the first time I hear both in the spring. My heart soars to hear them because I know warm sun, tree leaves, and green grass aren’t far behind.
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From the sun’s dawn
To its setting-
I must be sure to water and tend.
I must be sure the tiniest acorn
Grows tallest of all
The paradox-
In this moment, I beg, don’t grow.
My acorn.
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It’s a bleak end-of-March kind of day outside. Nothing like a lovely ancient tune to chase the gloom away!
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This is the only evidence used by the Trump administration to throw a gay hairstylist on a plane to a maximum security jail in El Salvador. Tattoos saying Mom and Dad - but with a crown attached which, despite clear denials from the victim, became proof he was a member of a criminal gang. No due process always means mistakes like this.
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I have always found this kind of fun, long before I cared about English. But only now does it feel difficult, when I care about the result
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This is why short “notes” about random things will get infinitely more attention than a poem or essay or story containing the poured-out heart of a writer.
We are addicted to easy things.
Substack is not the golden redemption from social media that it is preached to be. That redemption must take place in our own hearts and minds before any real difference can be spotted.
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