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To Find a Steady Center: Adam Zagajewski
Try to praise the mutilated world. Remember June's long days, and wild strawberries, drops of rosé wine. The nettles that methodically overgrow the abandoned homesteads of exiles. You must praise the mutilated world. You watched the stylish yachts and ships; one of...
To Find a Steady Center: Padraig O Tuama
That you were born and you will die. That you will sometimes love enough and sometimes not. That you will lie if only to yourself. That you will get tired. That you will learn most from the situations you did not choose. That there will be some things that move you...
Tips & Tricks for Working from Home with Kids
Two years ago I launched Cara Gilger Ministries from home with a preschooler at home three days a week and a first grader who both required my time and attention. Over the past two years I have grown a consulting and writing ministry that is (nearly) full time while...
To Find a Steady Center: Marie Howe
We saw something at once. And then it was over. Time started up again as if it had never stopped. We saw someone, and it was a soul. and that soul was us, or I, or everyone. We felt we had been waiting only after it had occurred. And once it had happened we were...
To Find a Steady Center: Mary Oliver
It doesn’t have to be the blue iris, it could be weeds in a vacant lot, or a few small stones; just pay attention, then patch a few words together and don’t try to make them elaborate, this isn’t a contest but the doorway into thanks, and a silence in which another...
To Find a Steady Center: Rabindranath Tagore
Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high Where knowledge is free Where the world has not been broken up into fragments By narrow domestic walls Where words come out from the depth of truth Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards...
To Find a Steady Center: Naomi Shihab Nye
Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things, feel the future dissolve in a moment like salt in a weakened broth. What you held in your hand, what you counted and carefully saved, all this must go so you know how desolate the landscape can be between...
To Find a Steady Center: David Whyte
Sometimes if you move carefully through the forest, breathing like the ones in the old stories, who could cross a shimmering bed of leaves without a sound, you come to a place whose only task is to...
To Find a Steady Center: Yehunda Amichai
From the place where we are right Flowers will never grow In the spring. The place where we are right Is hard and trampled Like a yard. But doubt and loves Dig up the world Like a mole, a plow And a whisper will be heard in the place Where the ruined...
