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Posted: 2025 Sep 13
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Quote of the Week
"What we need in the United States is not division; what we need in the United States is not hatred; what we need in the United States is not violence or lawlessness; but love and wisdom, and compassion toward one another, and a feeling of justice toward those who still suffer within our country, whether they be white or they be black."
[Robert Kennedy, speaking to a primarily black audience in Indianapolis after Martin Luther King Jr. Had been assassinated.]His words live on in large part because we all know he was and is correct. We need to make an effort in America. Love is hard work. Being a good American is hard work. And now is the time to embrace that labor, to grow in our compassion toward one another, to befriend and support our fellow Americans no matter how passionate our disagreements are or become.
This is not a way forward in the wake of Kirk’s death. It is the only way forward. You know it and I know it, just as Kennedy and King knew it. Now we just have to make it happen. It won’t be easy. It must be done.
Read the whole essay by Will Rahn, here.
Source: The Free Press
Posted: 2025 Sep 14Poetry of the Week
Roses, Late Autumn
I would be a fox, or a tree
full of waving branches.
I wouldn’t mind being a rose
in a field full of roses.Fear has not yet occurred to them, nor ambition.
Reason they have not yet thought of.
Neither do they ask how long they must be roses, and then what.
Or any other foolish question.Read the whole poem by Mary Oliver, here.
The Glory of the Garden
Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made
By singing:–“Oh, how beautiful!” and sitting in the shade,
While better men than we go out and start their working lives
At grubbing weeds from gravel-paths with broken dinner-knivesRead the whole poem by Rudyard Kipling, here.
Posted: Sep 13
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