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JohnBlase

@johnblase

giving the mundane its beautiful due (Updike)

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Homestly…can someone explain Rupi Kaur to me? How did this happen? #https://vm.tiktok.com/ZTdQrcxL2/
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remember your baptism
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Casie Dodd@CasieDodd6 Apr 2022
This piece is very close to my heart, and I’m grateful that it found the right home: Watching, Waiting, and Lent-ing with Walker Percy | ⁦@ChurchLifeND⁩ churchlifejournal.nd.edu/art…

Watching, Waiting, and Lent-ing with Walker Percy

Casie Dodd on what else is there.

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the dream of all poetry, to cut a hole in time. —Mary Ruefle
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She was a member of my parish, and she had a gorgeous singing voice. She was tiny, but she was a giant in every space she entered. This was taken a few years ago when we did a dinner about waging peace. God, we need that now. I will miss her.
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Depth psychology has presented us with the undeniable wisdom that the enemy is constructed from denied aspects of the self. Therefore, the radical commandment "Love your enemy as yourself" points the way toward both self-knowledge and peace. ~Sam Keen
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“When anybody asks what a story is about, the only proper thing is to tell them to read the story. The meaning of fiction is not abstract meaning but experienced meaning.” Flannery O’Connor #FlanneryOConnor
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Traces of Texas reader Marian Montle sent in this great photo of Willie and his sister Bobbie in Abbott, Texas. This showed up in Marian's Pinterest feed. As y'all are aware, Bobbie was Willie's piano player for decades and passed away just last week. She was 91 years old.
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I miss the days when children needed the physical acuity and guts of a Navy SEAL just to survive a normal day of life.
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This Mary Oliver poem has helped so many live through so much. If you (like me) could use some help today, here it is: themarginalian.org/2020/09/1…
“I Go Down to the Shore”: Natascha McElhone Reads Mary Oliver’s Spare, Splendid Antidote to...

“I Go Down to the Shore”: Natascha McElhone Reads Mary Oliver’s Spare, Splendid Antidote to...

Consolation for the waves of sorry from the waves of the sea.

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Ruth Stone, reaching in to twist the knife of middle age.
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I think about Charles Simic’s writing advice here all the time
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I just became the first U.S. Secretary of Education to call on President Biden to unilaterally cancel student loan debt. Can I count on you to retweet and help me hit 35k followers so we can spread the word?
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How your friends treated you when you got the Crayola 64 box …
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Arthur Schopenhauer:
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Marriage #wyeth #andrewwyeth
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Buechner's paraphrase of the traditional Ash Wednesday blessing, "Repent and believe the Gospel": "Turn around & believe that the good news that we are loved is better than we ever dared hope, & that to believe in that good news, to live out of it & toward it . . . 1/2
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fed up with human folly? consider reading about the extra brilliant intelligent kindness of the soul of Dolly Parton plough.com/en/topics/culture…
Dolly Parton Is Magnificent | Plough

Dolly Parton Is Magnificent | Plough

The beloved Tennessee singer-songwriter gets the joke. Do the rest of us?

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Three ways people seek transcendence without God--drugs, sex, and crowds. Ministers denounce drugs and sex but seldom the danger of crowds.- E. Peterson. The ecstasy of the crowd, the 'inner ring', the being with the few that really KNOW what's going on.
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