Monthly Archives: January 2008

birth & death

Birth, the beginning Death, the end New, fresh, vibrant, green Old, crumbled, broken, grey Both with blood, pain, tears Anticipation, announcing hope for the future Evasion, eventually yielding to the inevitable fact of life Both keeping secret their itineraries Ripening … Continue reading

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abstractions, generalizations, and judgments

communities all of our hopes, fears, dreams; shared joys & shared sorrows starving hand-in-hand; shoulders to cry and lean on humans men women and children loving living crying dying ethnocentrism anything you might think, feel, say, do, hear, taste, see, … Continue reading

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