Our greatest power as nations and individuals is not the ability to employ assault weapons, suicide bombers, and drones to destroy each other. The greater, more creative powers with which we may arm ourselves are grace and compassion sufficient enough to love and save each other.” – Aberjhani “Strange is our situation here on Earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to […]
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Joanne Jackson Yelenik | Thunderclaps and lilacs
Thunderclaps After Carl Sandburg, “The fog comes/on little cat feet.” Distant rumblings, like fog, come sounding footsteps, strangers gifting me. A woman on a Jerusalem bus asks with her eyes: “Feel the earth shift slightly on its axis?” I write on a white board with blue marker: “Jot down the first time the sea parted for you; be specific.” Today in my garden, a blade of grass surprised by my […]
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