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Here’s a poem from Muriel Rukeyser, an excerpt from Elegy in Joy<\/em><\/a>. I love the stanza ~<\/p>\n

Nourish beginnings, let us nourish beginnings.\r\nNot all things are blest, but the\r\nseeds of all things are blest.\r\nThe blessing is in the seed.<\/em>\r\n\r\nIt's so easy to forget that beginnings are full of promise, and that sometimes endings are beginnings...<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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