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Photo Memory of the Week
Posted: 2025 Apr 04
Poetry of the Week
The Rhodora
- Ralph Waldo EmersonRhodora! if the sages ask thee why
This charm is wasted on the earth and sky,
Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made for seeing,
Then Beauty is its own excuse for being:
Why thou wert there, O rival of the rose!
I never thought to ask, I never knew:
But, in my simple ignorance, suppose
The self-same Power that brought me there brought you.Posted: 2025 Apr 04
Category Archives: New Perspectives
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Once again, both can be true. Continue reading
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Tagged Attitudes, Critical Thinking
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Tagged Community, Culture, Family
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The Hot Seat – Part II
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Tagged Community, Musicians
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In the Spring – Part II
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Tagged Attitudes, Weather
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If It Be Now
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Posted in Feeling Clearly, Mortality, New Perspectives
Tagged Attitudes, Community, Death
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As Usual and As Not
Be seeing ya. Continue reading