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Love is patient and kind

“Love is patient and kind” 1 Corinthians 13:4 Love is the virtue that contains all other virtues and two of the most beautiful that are enfolded in love are patience and compassion. Patience is the ability to stay steadfast and centered no matter the provocation.  This quality of forbearance and fortitude is wonderfully expressed in […]

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Home Place

The famous author, poet, farmer and activist Wendell Berry writes that “no settled family or community has ever called its home place an “environment”.  No-one has ever called its feeling for its home place “biocentric” or “anthropocentric”. The concepts and insights of the ecologists are of great usefulness in our predicament…but they come from the […]

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Poem about Growing up in a Golf Club

Worlds separate us now.I have tiptoed across the creaking floorof the locker roomwith its bits of grass stuck to the floorboardsand odd scratchy golfballs kept in cardboard trays,closed the doorand gone down the brown, waxshined staircaseto the bar and the boys. I’ve looked my last illicit look with youfrom my grandparents’ roomin the top of […]

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Miriam and Kapil’s Wedding

On May 1st Wendy and I will be leaving for Denver, Colorado to celebrate my daughter, Miriam’s wedding. Her fiancé, Kapil is the son of Indian parents so the ceremony(ies) will be predominately Hindu and extend over three days, including a mehndi party, music evening, special pujas as well as the wedding ceremony itself. I […]

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