Friday, May 1, 2020

Mayday Mayday

In times of international distress . . .

"Do not be dismayed by the brokenness of the world.
All things break, and all things can be mended.
Not with time, as they say, but with intention.
So go. Love intentionally, extravagantly, unconditionally.
The broken world waits in darkness for the light that is you."


~ L.R. Knost ~


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Things break; things can be mended:
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2 comments:

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  2. See also QK January 18, 2017

    Thanks to Charlotte VanVactor for this one:

    Good Bones
    BY MAGGIE SMITH

    Life is short, though I keep this from my children.
    Life is short, and I’ve shortened mine
    in a thousand delicious, ill-advised ways,
    a thousand deliciously ill-advised ways
    I’ll keep from my children. The world is at least
    fifty percent terrible, and that’s a conservative
    estimate, though I keep this from my children.
    For every bird there is a stone thrown at a bird.
    For every loved child, a child broken, bagged,
    sunk in a lake. Life is short and the world
    is at least half terrible, and for every kind
    stranger, there is one who would break you,
    though I keep this from my children. I am trying
    to sell them the world. Any decent realtor,
    walking you through a real shithole, chirps on
    about good bones: This place could be beautiful,
    right? You could make this place beautiful.

    Maggie Smith
    "Good Bones" from _Waxwing_
    Copyright © 2016 by Maggie Smith

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