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Monthly Archives: December 2016
Then End Is Where We Start From
Originally posted on Life Beyond Books:
In “Little Gidding” from The Four Quartets, T. S. Eliot writes: What we call the beginning is often the endAnd to make an end is to make a beginning.The end is where we start…
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New Year’s Eve
Pink dawn fingers the grey bark on the maple trees along the frost-heaved stone wall. I see it through the kitchen window. Next to the window hangs a calendar already turned to January, although we haven’t yet lived the last … Continue reading
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Remembering high-flyers in 2016
Several articles talk of it in a census kind of way – the entertainers who died in 2016, but we know that in fact it wasn’t so much entertaining that makes us miss them as the way their lives inspire … Continue reading
Conflict Transformation — for African immigrants in Italy
In October 2016 Lance Muteyo and Daniel Buttry visited Southern Italy on the invitation of Crispinus Ouma Pamba a Kenyan immigrant in Italy. They did a series of Conflict Transformation workshops with African immigrants who come to Europe through the … Continue reading
Improv on THE END OF IT – the final scene in Charles Dickens’ Christmas Carol
“Yes! and the bedpost is my own. The bed and the room are my own. Best and happiest of all, the time was … well, either one day or three hundred and sixty five days! What an abundance – either … Continue reading
Blessings for Christmas from South Africa and Aotearoa
Beverley Osborn of Aotearoa sent this her Christmas card: Eight hundred years ago, Hildegarde of Bingen said, “Every creature glistens and glitters as a mirror of divinity.” After a night of storms — sleep broken by the sound of lashing … Continue reading
Christmas comes, 2016
Christmas comes to Maria and Iris and Rosa waiting for deportation at the Strafford County House of Correction, and ninety-seven year old Helen in hospice who used to jump with a parachute until she was eighty. It comes to the … Continue reading
Two Christmas poems from Heather Kelly
Heather Kelly of Aotearoa / New Zealand sends these poems to share. Paua Shell Christmas. I wish you a Paua Shell Christmas…… Refreshment of the greens of the forest; Renewal of the blues of the ocean; Energising of the purples … Continue reading
12 Days of Christmas … for dog lovers
On the first day of Christmas my human gave to me — a blanket as warm as can be! On the second day of Christmas my human gave to me – two balls to toss, and a blanket as warm … Continue reading
Las Posadas
A memory from my friend, Larry Trent: “Sorry, There Is No Room For You In The Inn” I spent this past Saturday in Nogales, Sonora, Mexico participating in the Bi-National La Posada at the Border. La Posada is the re-enactment … Continue reading
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