Comment on WHAT DOES BEING HUMAN MEAN, ANYWAY? by maryoconnor12
SOTE. Unfortunately, that is a new word that is becoming a part of our everyday vocabulary.
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Judith, beautiful words and I feel your pain but I am going away to ponder and will return, I hope, with more considered words and less fire in my belly. April is indeed a cruel month. Best wishes to...
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I’m not a hothead in the ordinary way, Patti. Rather cool and detached. But when I am roused, and I am always roused by what C.S. Lewis archaically called “unfairness” — e.g., that innocents should be...
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Comment on WHAT DOES BEING HUMAN MEAN, ANYWAY? by Touch2Touch
There is always sorrow, life is composed partly of that. But such egregious sorrow!!!!! Not right. Not fair.
View ArticleComment on WHAT DOES BEING HUMAN MEAN, ANYWAY? by Touch2Touch
I hope you are right! And I hope there are smart, passionate but patient and politically savvy people to lead it.
View ArticleComment on WHAT DOES BEING HUMAN MEAN, ANYWAY? by firstandfabulous
In the words of the Moody Blues, ” I’m frightened for our children…” I know this doesn’t help anyone, but I am at a loss. Who does things like this? What is the damn justification? There is none. SOTE...
View ArticleComment on WHAT DOES BEING HUMAN MEAN, ANYWAY? by Touch2Touch
No justification, ever. And yet it happens here, in Afghanistan, daily in Iraq — Dreary insanity. But see Patti Kuche’s comment: I’m just hurting so much I have to vent. I know hope exists: where to...
View ArticleComment on WHAT DOES BEING HUMAN MEAN, ANYWAY? by firstandfabulous
I wish I – or someone – knew.
View ArticleComment on WHAT DOES BEING HUMAN MEAN, ANYWAY? by Touch2Touch
When either of us finds some, we’ll let the other one know. Deal?
View ArticleComment on WHAT DOES BEING HUMAN MEAN, ANYWAY? by Anonymous
Our former rector and forever friend wrote the following as part of his Prayer for Boston: “… Deliver us from looking away because we are terror weary. Because no one we know was there. … ” This hit...
View ArticleComment on WHAT DOES BEING HUMAN MEAN, ANYWAY? by Touch2Touch
Yes, it’s a hard prayer, Meg. Really challenging. And we all, for our sanity, really do need respites from horror. For this one, though, I — who mostly turn away, from the homeless, from the mentals,...
View ArticleComment on A GLIMMER OF HOPE (1) by 2e0mca
There are times when music can speak profoundly louder than words and bring a sense of peace in the aftermath of bad things. I know you love Barber’s Adagio. How about Holst’s Jupiter? or Vaughan...
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I’m listening to this right now, and hear what you mean. Not so much that it’s beautiful (or not), but that it is comforting. And there is something mysterious about it, very right for the mystery of...
View ArticleComment on A GLIMMER OF HOPE (1) by firstandfabulous
I did what you said. i closed my eyes and listened. I don’t know nothin’ ’bout no fancy music, but I can feel the hurt and anger being absorbed into the quiet. Beautiful. So beautiful. And that little...
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[...] Dawn’s blog, at lingering visions, but, I also encourage you to take in the magic of music on Touch2Touch‘s blog – and believe that there’s [...]
View ArticleComment on A GLIMMER OF HOPE (1) by firstandfabulous
and mine… https://firstandfabulous.wordpress.com/2013/04/18/thursday-lingering-look-at-windows-week-14/ Be well. Have hope.
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Everybody, it’s well worth taking a look at Gemma’s extraordinary windows —
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