A Christmas Blessing
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Whether you live in good health or poor, may you travel well on your journey, and may your eyes face the horizon with courage.
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 10:58 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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A Message to One Who Mourns
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"Can't you do something to make this pain go away?" No, my child, but understand that the greater is your pain, the greater was your love. Only passionate hearts can produce passionate grief. Such hearts use the gift of time...
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 4:29 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The Light That Needs to Shine
Category: Lyrical
Those who are able to spark their lamp and put it to work, to keep this gift of encouragement and "good works" going as long as it is properly tended - what better use for this than caring for those with cancer?
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 8:39 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The End of the Race
Category: Lyrical
[Editor's note: the following allegory has something to do with cancer. Sometimes we have trouble figuring out what the narrator is trying to say, so don't blame us.] There are certain bursts of perfection in summer that if noticed, bring...
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 9:30 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Miles to Go
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She responded so rapidly to her first treatment it seemed as if she had been snatched from the bony arms of the Sepulchral Angel by the magic within these drugs.
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 3:09 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The Death of Spring
Category: Lyrical
When you strode over the horizon with your promises we loved you, Spring, but you've stayed too long.
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 8:33 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The Enemy Within
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If it sees you sitting quietly it drills into your mind, to infect it with the foul worms of hopelessness.
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 9:01 PM • 14 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
A Dream
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I had a dream recently where I walked through a shimmering forest, on my way to an unknown destination.
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 9:54 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The Sunday Night Poem - Rumi
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English translations of Rumi's poems have sold over half a million copies worldwide, but has your narrator ever read even one line of his verse?
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The Sunday Night Poem - Matthew Arnold
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Arnold lived in an era of violent intellectual turmoil (gee, sound familiar?) which is reflected in his body of work.
Posted by Craig Hildreth at 7:58 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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