In the Prologue to “Mom and Me and Mom”, the remarkable Maya Angelou writes that she is “Frequently….asked how I got to be this way.”
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Be Light
In the poem “Poppies” (“New and Selected Poems: Volume One”), Mary Oliver gently asks each of us to be light: ….light is an invitation to
“Temples of Goodness in our Hearts”
In the 34th of the verses titled “Fruit Gathering”, published in 1916, we listen to Rabindranath Tagore: ‘Sire,’ announced the servant to the King, ‘the
Unceasingly “Learn why the world wags and what wags it.”
In “The Once and Future King”, T. H. White’s 1958 book on the tale of King Arthur, we listen to the wizard Merlyn observe: “The
“What Good have I done Today?”
Towards the end of the book “Why We make Mistakes: How we look without seeing, Forget things in seconds, and are all all pretty sure
Autumn Leaves, Grass, and the Ideal of Nature
Kahlil Gibran writes of a conversation in Nature (his 1918 work “The Madman: His Parables and Poem”): “Said a blade of grass to an autumn
“Condemn none….”
In excerpts from the journals that the sculptor Anne Truitt wrote over seven years (“Daybook: The Journal of an Artist”), we read (in an entry
“Who are you to teach others?”
Peace Pilgrim writes (“Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her own Words”) that “there’s only one person you can change and that’s yourself.” She