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What do you prefer to "small talk"?

Posted on Sep 23rd, 2009 by Laura : graceriver Laura

And silence, like a poultice, comes To heal the blows of sound. --Oliver Wendell Holmes

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A Space Like Breath

Posted on Aug 15th, 2009 by Laura : graceriver Laura

Between these waves of winter salt and the fingers of deciduous stillness that arc and lean above them, beached and whittled into the sparse clarity of speechless ghosts, there is a space like breath, like... More »

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other beauty

Posted on Jul 5th, 2009 by Laura : graceriver Laura

The new language. I speak it. Not with my fingers. I speak it with my eyelids. It is the eyes. The new language is a blinking of the eyes. To create fhe fiction, the reflection,... 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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green thunder

Posted on Mar 31st, 2009 by Laura : graceriver Laura

Green thunder blooms for our  pebble moon though no wind will hear --a quick one from the ubiquitous haiku magnets

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liberty, tenedor, sandalwood

Posted on Mar 28th, 2009 by Laura : graceriver Laura

Before Saying Any of the Great Words We already know: first we must agree on which they are; but let us acknowledge that they exist: they resound in all their weight and gravity down Nevsky... More »

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What song or poem or work of art best captures your mood?

Posted on Dec 23rd, 2008 by Laura : graceriver Laura

This one by Nicholas Roerich. It isn't about Christmas really. I'm not sure what's here beyond the image for me. but it fits.

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words. forgotten

Posted on Aug 2nd, 2008 by Laura : graceriver Laura

The fish trap exists because of the fish; once you've gotten the fish, you can forget the trap. The rabbit snare exists because of the rabbit; once you've gotten the rabbit, you can forget the... More »

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reasons

Posted on Jul 26th, 2008 by Laura : graceriver Laura

If you haven't any lines in this scene with Kite, you must find reasons for saying nothing. --William Gaskill, with stage instructions

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The Quaker Meeting

Posted on Mar 22nd, 2008 by Laura : graceriver Laura

Inside the Quaker Meeting by John Krumberger Inside the Quaker meeting house people sit in silence and a small invisible stream flows just beneath the earth. One or two men are so old their hands... More »

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