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Jul.21.2010
CANZONE: THE TREE IN OUR BED
When we planned our new bedroom, a tree
Held prior claim. Eighty feet from the earth,
Its upper branches laced against the sky, that tree
Stood where our bed now stands: a cherry tree,
Double-trunked, as much acquainted with the air
As with the dirt...
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Jul.21.2010
Fire, Air, Earth, Water. Elements. Gods. You need go no further than newspaper headlines to see the evidence of their raw power over us. For me, it was reports of a Sumatran village being buried by mud slides triggered by wind-whipped rains and a magnitude 7.6 earthquake in the fall of 2009. More...
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Jul.21.2010
My older son is a water child. Before he was two, we took him to Lake Tahoe, and without much warning, he ran into the frigid water up to his neck. He went no further, but we dashed in, catching our breaths, watching him. He just smiled. We stayed at that lake front beach for hours.
He swam on...
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Jul.21.2010
How can you separate them? How can you pick one? I was just down in the Gulf near Tallahassee (the oil hasn't hit yet) where earth, air, water, fire (a.k.a. sun) are so closely interrelated you cannot separate them --- think cypress swamp, salt marshes, rivers and their banks, not to mention gulf...
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Jul.21.2010
I like to consider myself a rationalist, someone not privy to emotional outbursts or reactionary thought. I like to think I can balance my experience with education and make informed decisions rather than simply living through what others might perceive as my destined journey through life. But as...
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Jul.21.2010
Opacity of Green Boughs
The opacity of the green boughs
where I sit, filter out the rainbow's quiet descent.
I find my own safe comfort from the rain.
A coven of trees enough to keep me dry.
The rain a downpour crystalized by sun.
I feel the need to sleep, but I stay propped,
against the largest...
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Jul.21.2010
All life evolved from WaterWe are composed of 75% Water like the planet we live in and we have elements of EarthAir and Fire.The food we eat takes all its ingredients from water, sunlight, earth, Air etc., so itis as we are a combination of 4 elements which give us the power to think, we have...
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Jul.21.2010
Water is life !
It is the main reason why it is my favorite element. Imagine, being able to give water to everybody in the world ! Imagine being a waterbender: you could help avoiding all the "natural diseases" like Tsunamis and floods. You could help the poor countries, increase the...
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Jul.21.2010
‘ You have tried to find me in little triangles of space, from where I breathe fire into your wants. All along you tried to see what kind of flattened square I made, not knowing that I am all that is stable like the earth you stand on.
You never wanted me to be a circle around you but you tried to...
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