Tag Archives: New Year

Share Hope and Watch It Grow

New Year’s Day Former colleague Dana Greene alerted me to this luminescent New Year’s poem by Denise Levertov. In it, the poet compares hope to a small crystal and a cluster of irises. When Emily Dickinson describes hope as “the thing with feathers that perches in the soul,” she focuses on the individual. Hope comes […]

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2014, Eeyore, & Silver Linings

We can learn from Eeyore to be more forgiving of our public servants.

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High above Flood & Fire Ye Held the Scroll

Emma Lazarus writes a Statue of Liberty-type poem celebrating Rosh Hashanah.

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Gazing into the Palantir in 2012

Tolkien warns us about gazing too deeply into the world’s darkness.

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