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Gratefulness
It is foolish to let a young redwood grow next to a house.
Even in this one lifetime, you will have to choose.
That great calm being, this clutter of soup pots and books—
Already the first branch-tips brush at the window. Softly, calmly, immensity taps at your life.
Copyright 2001 by Jane Hirshfield from Given Sugar, Given Salt, (NY HarperCollins, 2001) and used by kind permission of the author.
#7 This sound of children singing the sun up will shape every last Himalayan snowflake…
She rarely made us do it— we’d clear the table instead—so my sister and I…
Because one must be naked to get clean, my dad shrugs out of his pajama…
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