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“Who will I be / as this stormy year unfolds?”

“The water waited to see the animals again, / the shapes they would assume and the sounds they’d make…”

“Proof that if you look / beyond flood waters, / there will be dry land…”

Too often we fear placing ourselves in another’s shoes because it is hard to feel their pain. Or because it may destabilize our convictions and force us to challenge our own positions. We must fight our own resistance.

“What about the kids in war, my nieces ask? / They hide, the eldest says.”

“We are living / as if in an experiment…”

“We ask that that you inspire humans to remember our fellow creatures in this time of war, to mitigate the damage that we cause them and to bring us all to a time of peace.”

“This is the month we remember the rainbow”

God and my husband want to destroy my home