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Dian Parker's avatar

We must risk delight….Gilbert is the real thing, like Henry Miller, like Life.

Thank you.

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Constantine Markides's avatar

"We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless furnace of the world." Now there's a mantra to remember...

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Corb's avatar

Been long since seeing our constant balancing act laid out so clearly as this. Thank you, really.

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Patris's avatar

Beautiful. The lesson of generations is to persevere,keep walking forward and love the good and even joy we find in life even within the darkness we encounter.

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Stanley Wotring's avatar

Only when we acknowledge the darkness can the we appreciate the glory of the light.

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Elena Brower's avatar

thank you for this simple wisdom today.

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Shane's avatar

Thanks, I needed that. Excellent choice.

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Jordan Wolfson's avatar

Thank you. These words are a blessing. And you are an angel. Seriously.

Thank you. 💛

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Poetic Outlaws's avatar

Thank you!

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Hari Singh Nalwa's avatar

beautiful

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Russell C. Smith's avatar

Powerful and quite timely. Life continues. Birds are always flying by.

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BB Borne's avatar

Rest is as powerful a forward force as work. Delight is rest.

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KR (Kenneth Rosen)'s avatar

America the beautiful

Is as ugly as all hell,

But we've got to love her

And we do, it's true.

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Radically accessible poems's avatar

One of my favs

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Alix's avatar

ahhhhhh….. yes

a sweet exhale amongst these days

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Francesca Bossert's avatar

Thank you. This is beautiful.

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Vikram Bakshi's avatar

Beautiful in these tested times of riots and war all over and hate seeping everywhere

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