only kindness that raises its head from the crowd of the world to say it is I you … - Naomi Shihab Nye

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He's an angel. Isn't he supposed to love everyone, even the damned? Especially when said damned are his drinking buddies.

Naomi Shihab Nye

only kindness that raises its head from the crowd of the world to say it is I you have been looking for, and then goes with you everywhere like a shadow or a friend.

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I want to be someone making music
with my coming.

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The writing of Kathleen McGookey shines more brightly than most fine things we feel pleasure to read. Celebrate it!

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Teaching and writing are separate, but serve
feed one another in so many ways. Writing travels the road inward, teaching, the road out - helping OTHERS move inward - it is an honor to be with others in the spirit of writing and encouragement.

Encouragement, Inward, Moving, Road, Teaching

I Still Have Everything You Gave Me It is dusty on the edges. It is slightly rotten. I guard it without thinking. I focus on it once a year when I shake it out in the wind. I do not ache. I would not trade.

Edges, Everything, Rotten, Thinking, Wind, Years

For you who came so far; for you who held out, wearing a black scarf to signify grief; for you who believe true love can find you amidst this atlas of tears linking one town to its own memory of mortar, when it was still a dream to be built and people moved there, believing, and someone with sky and birds in his heart said this would be a good place for a park.

Amidst, Birds, Dream, Grief, Memories, Wearing

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Learning stamps you with its moments. Childhood's learning is made up of moments. It isn't steady. It's a pulse.

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Through many dangers, toils and snares, I have already come; 'Tis grace has brought me safe thus far, And grace will lead me home.

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