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Beginner's Heart
‘A Wedding at Cana’ ~
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Britton Gildersleeve
Here’s a lovely poem from poet Tom Sleigh, a wonderful poet who writes about war, its impacts and the terrible beauty of the human heart. I especially like this one, ‘A Wedding at Cana, Lebanon, 2007.’
‘meet and talk and listen’ ~ His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama
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Britton Gildersleeve
The Dalai Lama is a funny guy. He can even find humour in his unpopularity w/ the Chinese (“I give them a little bit of trouble… People who create trouble for you… give you opportunity to practice tolerance,” he said w/ a big a grin). He’s also a polite panelist, making sure today, in Fayetteville,…
Beginner’s Heart and the Army ~
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Britton Gildersleeve
So what is beginner’s heart? I actually Googled the term. Not many results apply. I came up with it like I do poem titles ~ it seemed like a good idea, and like it would lead me somewhere. It’s how (and often why) I write: where will the writing take me? What will I learn?…
blogging, hubris & tea ~
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Britton Gildersleeve
It’s an act of extreme hubris to begin a blog — it says that what we think and feel and do in our unexceptional life is worth noting. And of course it is, to those who love us. But I’ve felt for some time that there isn’t enough of that — the attention to the…
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