HeyJaredWords Like Stones
Words like stones gathered to describe the gatherer, placed in positions of significance prescribed by ritual. Incidental; integral.
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After Wendell (opens the original)
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Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedI killed my first chicken The day Wendell Berry died And smoked a pipe on the patio While sitting in a rocking chair. The rooster was an accident And had been waking our neighbors And was illegal anyway And the chair was polyester On an aluminum frame And I’m writing this on a phone, But I think that man is larger now, His spirit diffused by Grace Into every corner of the world That yearns for simplicity, In its yearning cri
On Learning to Pray with the Whole Body (opens the original)
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Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedDo not despise the dust from whence you came. He formed it first while yet you were a thought — Not breath, nor soul, nor will, nor mind, nor name, Which all can swell to fill the all they ought. So dance, ye sons and daughters of the King! No more in night as once you stubmbled through, But in the light as bells of vesper ring And sing a gladsome hymn that rings as true. Receive the blessing, sober dance the course, Inhabit
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