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If after so much effort and prayer, the matter is not successful, it will be a clear sign that God does not will it.

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Susan Griffin

Is it a coincidence that stories from the private life became more popular just as the grand hope for public redemption through revolution was beginning to sour? I witnessed a similar shift in taste in my own time. In the 1960s, while a hopeful vision of a just society arose again, countless poems and plays concerning politics and public life were written, read, and performed. But after the hope diminished and public life seemed less and less trustworthy, this subject was less in style.

Hopeful, Play, Redemption, Seemed, Vision
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We are the bird's eggs. Bird's eggs, flowers, butterflies, rabbits, cows, sheep, we are caterpillars; we are leaves of ivy and springs of wildflower. We are women. We rise from the wave. We are gazelle and doe, elephant and whale, lilies and roses and peach, we are air, we are flame, we are oyster and pearl, we are girls. We are woman and nature. And he says he cannot hear us speak. But we hear.

Caterpillars, Flower, Girl, Peach, Pearl, Spring

Even in the grimmest of circumstances, a shift in perspective can create startling change.

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Borrow a child and get on welfare. Borrow a child and stay in the house all day with the child, or go to the public park with the child, and take the child to the welfare office and cry and say your man left you and be humble and wear your dress and your smile, and don't talk back.

Borrow, Children, Humble, Motherhood, Office, Welfare

At the museum a troubled woman destroys a sand painting meticulously created over days by Tibetan monks. The monks are not disturbed. The work is a meditation. They simply begin again.

Days, Meditation, Museums, Painting, Woman

One can find traces of every life in each life.

Friendship, Life, Traces
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