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“But the life of faith operates within a different order of reality. You do not, in fact have to create, muster, manufacture, or maintain your own light. I promise you have been absorbing enough of it for long enough to shine with it. You have been absorbing God’s light all along—even when you don’t believe…

“Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.” Charles Dickens

This Be The Verse BY PHILIP LARKIN They fuck you up, your mum and dad.        They may not mean to, but they do.    They fill you with the faults they had     And add some extra, just for you. But they were fucked up in their turn     By fools in old-style hats and…

“See everything, judge little, forgive much.” Richard Rohr

“Sometimes I sits and thinks, and sometimes I just sits.” Satchel Paige

[Really long flag thought from my friend Ted Kaye]: Every year, right around this time, we find ourselves asking the same question: Why are we Americans so enamored, maybe even obsessed, with American flag clothing? At this point you’ve probably seen a good number of people walking around with American flag T-shirts, shorts, and bathing…

“God is hidden in plain sight, yet religion seems determined to make it more complicated.” Richard Rohr

In his classic The Outermost House, American naturalist Henry Beston writes that animals “are not brethren, they are not underlings” but beings “gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear.” They are, he writes, “other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life…

flâneur [flah-nur, flah-nœr] NOUN French. flâneurs

“To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you’re wrong, admit it; Whenever you’re right, shut up.” Ogden Nash