Reach deep into your soul
And you will see
Shared roots hold
All that we have ever been
And all that we are
Meant to be.
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Do Not Be Silenced
- The Children’s Memorial, Yad Vashem
In remembrance of times
Of horror
Never to repeat
Never to minimize:
Do not shy
Of voice
Do not shy
Of fact
Do not shy
Of holding truth
To challenge
Those who in their blindness,
In their hunger to cause pain,
Seek to deny
The cost of hate
The force of harm
The voice of those who had been silenced.
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Do not be silenced.
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Be brave.
Walk tall.
Remember:
Those who seek to silence
To zip history closed
To limit learning,
Can only do so
If they make you forget
The truth
Entrusted to you — to all of us —
By those who’d perished
And those who’d managed
To survive.
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Live Avidly
Be keen
Be ardent
Be earnest in your zeal for better heart, more soul.
Find passion in all that you devote yourself to, breathe for.
Live avidly.
Live whole.
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Harmonics
- Image: John Whitney
As the sound of sorrow multiplies
So does the song of hope.
As fear reverberates
So can circles of compassion.
As hate amplifies,
So does love.
We can choose.
Which harmonics
To make ours.
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Counter-Spike!
Dhammakaya Temple, Thailand: 100,000 Monks Praying for Peace, (Luke Duggleby)
There’s a spike in crime. There’s a spike in hate. There’s a spike in divisive talk around the country, world, the internet.
There’s a spike in violence, a spike in stress, a spike in power-hunger, a spike in blame.
Let’s spike a counter-spike, to douse the flames.
Let us spike in kindness. Let’s bring a spike in care. May a spike in love envelop everywhere. …
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Small Fry
They may be small
They may be young
They may often get taken, transferred, pushed around.
They may get little voice
About things that affect their lives.
They may have few actual ways
To keep alive.
Their views may be ignored
Laughed at
Minimized.
Their needs may all too often be relegated
To agendas others have.
But small as they are, they are mighty
They are brave of soul
And heart.
They hold opinions
Dreams
Ideas
Insights.
Our care makes all the difference
To the future
That they hold
Inside.
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Happy Girl
- Photo: Pinterest
She giggles at the slightest silly
She grins at mirrors
Smiles through windows
Makes a dozen strangers’ day.
She beams at dogs, at books
A toy, a leaf, a pigeon
The world itself at play.
She chuckles at her own reflection
Adores someone’s freckles, wrinkles, shoes.
She rejoices in a pigtail, a polka-dot ribbon
Celebrates a doll, a braid, a tube of sparkling glue.
She chortles with abandon at a joke
“Again, again!”
She finds joy in the smallest moments
Her laughter paints bright happy into
Even the most mundane.
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See Through
- Photo: Borzui.tumblr.com
Not all that shows outside, is what may be within.
Not all reflection knows the spirit
Light or dark or dim.
Be kind to those whose face is blank.
Be kind to those whose face speaks more.
You never know
The depth of life
That simmers, yearns, below.
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May You Be Jolted
May you be jolted into awareness.
May your heart slide ajar to the world.
May you see with kind eyes.
May your love shake
The very foundations
Of soul.
May your spirit thrust wisdom
Of long known compassion
Into all that you are
And all that can join you
At the core of the call
To be more,
To be all,
To be whole.
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The Way Up
Find your way up.
Even if it does not take you
In straight line
Or all the way to
Summit.
Find your way up.
Through twist and turns
Through tears and woe
Through long forsaken roads
Of endless
Wandering.
Find your way up.
Through dark pre-dawn
Through moonlit nights
Through the innumerous
Unsheltered
Evenings.
Find your way up.
Reach deep
Climb high
Into yourself
Into the core
Of heart
And spirit
Knowing.
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