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Prayer:  “Realize God is saying to you: Shut up and let me love you” St Augustine

Here in the going, going gone “Dark laughter on the teeter-totter,an old song floats across the water,I know I should pack up and move on.One-note Johnnies proliferate,the wind rises, the hour is latehere in the going going gone. My heart ain’t mine, my heart is yours –or else I left it out-of-doorslike a baseball glove…

The summer solstice marks the start of summer in the Northern Hemisphere, bringing the longest day and shortest night of the year as the Earth’s tilt positions the northern half most directly toward the sun. The word “solstice” comes from Latin, combining “sol” (sun) and “stitium” (pause or stop), representing the moment when the sun…

“Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes — including you.”  Anne Lamott

“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…