O Nobly Born
O Nobly Born: The letters of Growing Humankindness

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27
Feb

Matins

I love poems that celebrate the tender, poignant, beautiful, earthy, and the everyday. These are our lives, they proclaim, and
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16
Feb

Unfurling

This poem came about a wondering - what is it like, those places in us that bend toward the light,
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14
Feb

Learning to Dance

Last weekend I watched my husband take a dance lesson at a local dance studio. The lead teacher was an
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10
Feb

Communion

This poem came to me during my morning ritual, when I step outside, greet the sun, offer up my prayers,
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08
Feb

Pulling Out the Splinter

Splinters are part of gardening, I've learned, especially because I tend not to wear gloves. My last splinter
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04
Feb

The Magi

The other day I was talking to an acquaintance about the January I've had, a season of illness
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03
Feb

Waiting on Hold for the Customer Service Rep

Perhaps like me, you make a lot of phone calls. Insurance companies, banks, doctors offices, the IRS, the plumber and
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27
Jan

Mourning Song

There's a story I heard in a Tara Brach podcast, many years ago now, about a young child
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20
Jan

Saying Goodbye to My Son's Choir Oxfords

For much of the past twenty years, my social life has rotated around the axis of my children's
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14
Jan

Blessing the Pills

Yesterday, in my monthly writing group, we explored belonging. During our time together, I heard something I hadn't
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