I know I am made from this earth, as my mother's hands were made from this earth, as … - Susan Griffin

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Every high school has its Romeo and Juliet, one tragic couple. So does every generation.

Susan Griffin

I know I am made from this earth, as my mother's hands were made from this earth, as her dreams came from this earth and all that I know, I know in this earth, the body of the bird, this pen, this paper, these hands, this tongue speaking, all that I know speaks to me through this earth.

Dream, Hands, Mother, Speaking, Tongue

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We are the bird's eggs. Bird's eggs, flowers, butterflies, rabbits, cows, sheep, we are caterpillars; we are leaves of ivy and springs of wildflower. We are women. We rise from the wave. We are gazelle and doe, elephant and whale, lilies and roses and peach, we are air, we are flame, we are oyster and pearl, we are girls. We are woman and nature. And he says he cannot hear us speak. But we hear.

Caterpillars, Flower, Girl, Peach, Pearl, Spring

Even in the grimmest of circumstances, a shift in perspective can create startling change.

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Borrow a child and get on welfare. Borrow a child and stay in the house all day with the child, or go to the public park with the child, and take the child to the welfare office and cry and say your man left you and be humble and wear your dress and your smile, and don't talk back.

Borrow, Children, Humble, Motherhood, Office, Welfare

At the museum a troubled woman destroys a sand painting meticulously created over days by Tibetan monks. The monks are not disturbed. The work is a meditation. They simply begin again.

Days, Meditation, Museums, Painting, Woman

One can find traces of every life in each life.

Friendship, Life, Traces