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Do Good Anyway: Wisdom from Mother Teresa

Do Good Anyway: Wisdom from Mother Teresa

Do Good Anyway: Wisdom from Mother Teresa People are often unreasonable,illogical and self-centered.Forgive them anyway. The good you do today,people will often forget tomorrow.Do good anyway. Give the world the best you have,and it may never be enough.Give your best...

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Poetry Rx | “The Star” by Richard Bauckham

Poetry Rx | “The Star” by Richard Bauckham

We first saw it on a night pitch as a dungeon, the world’s midnight. It appeared the only brightness in the universe, a bird of pure light soaring, a crystal ship sailing the dark deluge, a dazzling denizen of heaven leaping the vast vault towards our long lost world....

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Poetry Rx | “Chemotherapy” by Julia Darling

Poetry Rx | “Chemotherapy” by Julia Darling

Julia Darling (1956-2005) I did not imagine being bald at forty four. I didn’t have a plan. Perhaps a scar or two from growing old, hot flushes. I’d sit fluttering a fan. But I am bald, and hardly ever walk by day, I’m the invalid of these rooms, stirring soups, awake...

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Our Friends | Do You Remember Barbara

Our Friends | Do You Remember Barbara

“Remember Barbara,” begins a wonderful poem by Jacques Prevert about love and war: the Second World War and the destruction of the French port, Brest; the love of Barbara and the desolate loss of that love. It reminded me of my friend, Barbara, and the Alzheimer's...

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Poetry Rx | “Affirmation” by Donald Hall

Poetry Rx | “Affirmation” by Donald Hall

To grow old is to lose everything. Aging, everybody knows it. Even when we are young, we glimpse it sometimes, and nod our heads when a grandfather dies. Then we row for years on the midsummer pond, ignorant and content. But a marriage, that began without harm, scatters into debris on the shore, and a […]

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