Spiritual

Wild Magic

You don’t know who they will be, the ones who open your eyes to life’s wild magic, but when you find them, it will not be hard to tell.

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Earthmother (for Heidi)

When I think of you, it is with thoughts of butterflies and flowers. I did not know their names until you told me, like a precious secret, like this knowledge was the only true wealth, and how lucky that we could be rich together. Perhaps I would not know to love the world from the roots up, as you do, without your quiet enthusiasm for everything that grows.
It might seem a perilous undertaking of the spirit, to see what beauty is still alive in this world of smoke, and speed, and fear, but as I question if there is hope for us in the times to come, I remember you in your garden, smiling, and showing us that hope is everywhere if you know where to look.

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Spark

There are more with a spark like the one you carry in your loving heart, so I know we will never be lost.

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Other Worlds

We are not so far away from the world of giants and secrets and magic.

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Everything

Nothing feels more like everything than love.

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Higher Path

There is a way up toward the better world we have seen in our dreams, but these stairs won’t build themselves.

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Ordinary Things

It’s hardest to love the ordinary things, she said, but you get lots of opportunities to practice.

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Real Hero (fem)

Anyone can slay a dragon, she told me, but try waking up every morning & loving the world all over again. That’s what takes a real hero.

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Teach Love

The best teachers
are the ones
who show you
how to use
your heart.

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Boundless

This is the
kind of love
that just keeps
going.

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Potential

This is for the times
you held me in your thoughts,
knowing
I could be more.

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Important

One summer our house burned down.
I stood on the curb crying and watching it burn,
and my mom put her arm around me and said,
At least we didn’t lose anything important.

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Heart Lines

There are invisible lines
connecting everything together,
and I am particularly fond of
the one that connects me to you.

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Nothing More (remix)

If there is any secret to this life I live, this is it: the sound of what cannot be seen sings within everything that can. & there is nothing more to it than that.

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Real Hero (no gender)

Anyone can slay a dragon, but try waking up every morning & loving the world all over again. That’s what takes a real hero.

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Yellow Bathrobe

I finally settled on Buddhism, she said, but it’s more than just a fashion statement. I’ve always done some of my best work in my bathrobe.

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Wonder Roast

He just sat in the church looking up at nothing in particular & I whispered what are you doing? & he said if Jesus had been a chicken would we have Weber grills all over the place instead of crosses? & I had a hard time concentrating after that, too.

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Work Ethic

When we visited my grandma in the summer, we’d sit on the porch & watch the moon every night to be sure it made it safely home. My grandma said we should say prayers that it find fulfilling work during the day. It’s not like there’s a lot of jobs out there for a moon, she said. She had been through the Depression & thought about a lot of things like that.

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Wolf Angel

this is a wolf angel & it eats the people it’s supposed to help. A wolf angel is not a good angel to have looking out for you.

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Western Mysticism

It’s much easier, he told me, if you like the parts you like & you like the parts you don’t like. Is that some Eastern thing? I said & he said not really since he was from Idaho & it worked there just fine.

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