NOW must I these three praise —
Three women that have wrought
What joy is in my days:
One because no thought,
Nor those unpassing cares,
No, not in these fifteen
Many-times-troubled years,
Could ever come between
Mind and delighted mind;
And one because her hand
Had strength that could unbind
What none can understand,
What none can have and thrive,
Youth’s dreamy load, till she
So changed me that I live
Labouring in ecstasy.
And what of her that took
All till my youth was gone
With scarce a pitying look?
How could I praise that one?
When day begins to break
I count my good and bad,
Being wakeful for her sake,
Remembering what she had,
What eagle look still shows,
While up from my heart’s root
So great a sweetness flows
I shake from head to foot.
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Joe: “I took my girlfriend out to a restaurant and the food was terrible.”
Pete: “What did she say?”
Joe: “She agreed, then said, “and such small portions.”
In Episode 47 of my podcast, Journey from Grief to Healing, I journal about the gifts I am receiving through my experience of suffering. M told me that discovering the gifts hidden in my suffering wouldn’t ease my grieving or suffering but they would pave the way toward healing. I am discovering she is right.
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NOTE: Life’s not easy. It takes heaps of courage to stay the course, accept responsibility, and never quit. I often think of my mom and dad as heroes. They were uneducated and poor, yet I never felt poor. They didn’t talk about their poverty. We worked as a family to grow a large garden. We walked and took public transportation until I was in sixth grade and they could afford a car. Even though I grew up in a tenement building next to factories and the railroad tracks, the four room cold water flat seemed like a mansion to me. There was love and always the smell of sauce or pasta fazool cooking. They did what they had to do day after day so the family would survive. That’s often all it takes to be a hero, taking responsibility and doing what you have to do.
You have two choices. you can keep running and hiding and blaming the world for your problems, or you can stand up for yourself and decide to be somebody important.
GOD grant a blessing on this tower and cottage
And on my heirs, if all remain unspoiled,
No table or chair or stool not simple enough
For shepherd lads in Galilee; and grant
That I myself for portions of the year
May handle nothing and set eyes on nothing
But what the great and passionate have used
Throughout so many varying centuries
We take it for the norm; yet should I dream
Sinbad the sailor’s brought a painted chest,
Or image, from beyond the Loadstone Mountain,
That dream is a norm; and should some limb of the Devil
Destroy the view by cutting down an ash
That shades the road, or setting up a cottage
Planned in a government office, shorten his life,
Manacle his soul upon the Red Sea bottom.
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