Oh Children of Gaza Ah, the wars they will be fought again. The holy dove, she will be caught again, bought and sold, and bought again… — Leonard Cohen Amid a war pulverized Gaza, on a dusty road in soul searing heat, emerges a barefoot tattered and torn young girl, maybe seven or eight years […]
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Powerlessness is Our Super-Power There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community. — M Scott Peck Our hearts, comrades, like faith, get forged in the fire of powerlessness, and strengthened in the deep well vulnerability. This is a
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Come What May, Love of Fate (Amor Fati) I felt my old heart stir and tears well up in my eyes as I embraced this beautiful niece of mine, for the first time, just before her twenty-ninth birthday. My brother had not fared must better in terms of connection with his daughter. She’d gone to
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Out of suffering compassion is born There’s just no damn doubt about it comrades, in this life there will be a whole series of devastating losses. To use the cliché “shit happens,” and for many people it hits the fan big time, regularly. Speaking to a very dear friend a while ago who lost her
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