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Warm Cheeks
By Husnaa Hashim in the KidSpirit Human Dignity issue.
I don't want learning, or dignity, or respectability. I want this music, and this dawn, and the warmth of your cheek against mine.
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A Poem for the Helpers in Newtown, Connecticut
December 14, 2012. A heavily armed young man opened fire at a Connecticut elementary school, killing 26 people, including 20 children in the second deadliest mass shooting at a U.S. school in histor…
A Prayer for Victims and Families of Earthquakes in Iran
Two earthquakes in northwest Iran on Saturday, August 11, 2012, have killed 300 people and injured 2,600 more, according to reports from Reuters and other news agencies.
The first quake registere…
The Shape of Water in Process Perspective
The Water God
Last night I saw The Shape of Water written and directed by Guillermo del Toro, and this morning I read Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat’s review of the marvelous film. The Brussats …
"D" Is for Devotion
"There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground; there are a thousand ways to go home again."
— Rumi
A Quiet Word
Devotion is a quiet word, and quiet words often get lost in o…
Beyond Ideas of Wrongdoing and Rightdoing
In an article for the Huffingtonpost.com, Dennis Merritt Jones (Your (Re)Defining Moments) uses this quotation from Rumi: "Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will mee…
A Prayer for the Birds
Poet and Rumi translator Coleman Barks has observed that all the mystical traditions revere birds and their songs. They represent our yearnings for purity, freedom, play, and deliver "messages of in…