I Still Have Everything You Gave Me It is dusty on the edges. It is slightly rotten. I … - Naomi Shihab Nye

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When men do not run they are likely to die prematurely from dysfunction of the heart and vascular systems or from disabling chronic disease.

Naomi Shihab Nye

I Still Have Everything You Gave Me It is dusty on the edges. It is slightly rotten. I guard it without thinking. I focus on it once a year when I shake it out in the wind. I do not ache. I would not trade.

Edges, Everything, Rotten, Thinking, Wind, Years

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I want to be someone making music
with my coming.

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The writing of Kathleen McGookey shines more brightly than most fine things we feel pleasure to read. Celebrate it!

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Teaching and writing are separate, but serve
feed one another in so many ways. Writing travels the road inward, teaching, the road out - helping OTHERS move inward - it is an honor to be with others in the spirit of writing and encouragement.

Encouragement, Inward, Moving, Road, Teaching

For you who came so far; for you who held out, wearing a black scarf to signify grief; for you who believe true love can find you amidst this atlas of tears linking one town to its own memory of mortar, when it was still a dream to be built and people moved there, believing, and someone with sky and birds in his heart said this would be a good place for a park.

Amidst, Birds, Dream, Grief, Memories, Wearing

The thousands small birds of January in their smooth soaring cloud finding the trees.

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I wanted to remain a technical adviser for Id, but it just didn't work out. Probably for the best, as the divided focus was challenging.

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Bent Saether

You find your preferred resolutions and harmonic intervals and what-have-yous, and then you either keep writing the same thing until everybody is as bored with your songs as you are, or you try with all your might to get out of those patterns. This is what a lot of the work is all about.

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Brad Warner

Now however, we have contraception and it's mostly reliable so you can have sex without that happening. So then you start vilifying the act of sex itself. I don't think Buddhism has ever done that necessarily, or at least I'm not aware of Buddhism taking the stance that Christianity often has which says that sex itself is a kind of evil act, which is a really weird idea.

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Brian Jacques

There are enough cowards in the world without killing a brave creature for so little reason.

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