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Where would you choose to spend your life?

Posted on Oct 10th, 2009 by Laura : graceriver Laura

I don't think I've been there yet. It's not utterly remote but has a sort of collective sense of the importance of living consciously and kindly and so it isn't a city. It's not too cold nor... More »

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manifesting

Posted on Jun 22nd, 2009 by Laura : graceriver Laura

Itself The unseen is seeing itself. The unfelt is feeling itself. The unknown is knowing itself. The unspoken is speaking itself. The unmanifest is manifesting itself. --Adyashanti, from My Secret Is Silence

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Dream Broth

Posted on Mar 27th, 2009 by Laura : graceriver Laura

The seeds of all the seasons come together in a soup of something I could once taste but hold in my mouth now like water.  Everything is here: sweetness cupped in kernels that distill its... More »

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strange rocks

Posted on Mar 1st, 2009 by Laura : graceriver Laura

Pine trees and strange rocks remain unknown to those who look for mind with mind. --Shih-Wu

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treasure

Posted on Feb 12th, 2009 by Laura : graceriver Laura

I must love the questions......like locked rooms full of treasure. --Alice Walker

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What Kinds of Words? redux

Posted on Feb 6th, 2009 by Laura : graceriver Laura

  What kinds of words might the kudzu whisper to the magnolia branches as it overtakes them?  I imagine them to be syllables of consolation and care, spoken with tenderness despite the encroachment of vine... More »

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What do you find mysterious?

Posted on Jun 18th, 2008 by Laura : graceriver Laura

Fortunately, everything, at some time or another.

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Posted on Feb 3rd, 2008 by Laura : graceriver Laura

I was talking recently about the pre-Raphaelites and how their lives have always fascinated me. Then this morning when I read Otter's blog about the human form I thought about Dante Gabriel Rossetti in particular... More »

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John Masefield

Posted on Jul 19th, 2007 by Laura : graceriver Laura

He was one of the first poets I really loved. His poems displaced me from my sixteen-year-old world into another, larger place full of adventure. I believe he was poet laureate of England for a... More »

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