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Jul.15.2009 The Love that Moves Me I've been consorting with gods and goddesses during my teaching leave this spring. No, I'm not certifiable. I find a shimmer of divinity and archetypal movement in many of my writer friends. What I don't find, I invent. I listen for whispered conversations, for love notes between Orpheus and...	Mar.25.2009 Becoming a Poet BECOMING A POET 1. In college I never understood poetry. Certain distant acquaintances walked around in what appeared to be a kind of haze. People spoke of them, with a kind of awe, as poets. I didn't grasp their poetry, but I wanted to be spoken of that way, too! Whether most poets begin with...
Jul.11.2008 Contemplation-Can I play too? The fact is, that there is no gulf between the ordinary and the supernatural in prayer. The soul in its quest, passes through unconscious and undistinguishable steps, just as the old year melts tranquilly into the new, without any sound breaking the silence of midnight. Theologians differ as to...	May.11.2008 introduction I think this is the first organization I have joined since joining the navy at 17, since then life has been an adventure. People told me if I wanted to write I needed to sit down and write, but I thought it was more important to live so then I would have something to write about, but like usual—man...

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