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When Someone Deeply Listens to You

John Fox   When someone deeply listens to you it is like holding out a dented cup you’ve had since childhood and watching it fill up with cold, fresh water. When it balances on top of the brim, you are understood. When it overflows and touches your skin, You are loved. When someone deeply listens […]

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On The Ridge

Mark Nepo    We can grow by simply listening, the way the tree on that ridge listens its branches to the sky, the way blood listens its flow to the site of a wound, the way you listen like a basin when my head so full of grief can’t look you in the eye. We can listen our way […]

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Being A Person

William Stafford   Be a person here. Stand by the river, invoke the owls. Invoke winter, then spring. Let any season that wants to come here make its own call. After that sound goes away, wait. A slow bubble rises through the earth and begins to include sky, stars, all space, even the outracing, expanding […]

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A Language You Once Knew

Dorothy Walters   There will be an invitation. It will not come tied in ribbons nor a message streaming down from the sky. There will be no Roman candles sizzling nor brilliant colors exploding overhead. Instead there will be a soft whisper in your ear, something in a language you once knew and are trying […]