The most excruciating events in the world sometimes somehow bring out the best qualities in human beings.  Pain may not be anybody’s favorite teacher but sometimes it’s more convincing than anything else. That at least is one way of looking at how the…

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“The personality that is engaged in the work of its soul is buoyant. It is not burdened with negativity.  It does not fear. It experiences purposefulness and…

Mama polar bear with her Cub. (Photograph by Norbert Rosing from Global Animal.org) 

Mother’s Day is one of the most brilliant holidays in the world. It would probably do all of us a lot of good though to remember that human beings are not the…

“…He reinforces and lifts and rounds out his edifice of notes far above the church into a starry space full of nobly perfect systems, as though God had gone to sleep and handed over to him His staff and mantle.…

"Awakened Angel of Light" artwork by Christia Cummings

"Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words. They are the hieroglyphics of angels, loved by all men for the beauty of the character, though few can decipher even fragments of their meaning."

~Lydia M. Child, educator and…

I need a sign to let me know you're here

All of these lines are being crossed over the atmosphere

I need to know that things are gonna look up

'Cause I feel us drowning in a sea spilled from a cup



When there is no place safe and no safe place to put my head

When you feel the world shake from the words that are said



[Chorus:]

And I'm calling all angels

I'm calling all you angels



I won't give up if you dont give up [Reapeat…

“These things I warmly
wish for you:
Someone to love,
some work to do,
A bit o' sun,
a bit o' cheer,
And a guardian angel always near”

--Traditional Irish Blessing

Perhaps

we cling as we do

century after century

year after year

moment after moment

to notions of the angelic

because human wisdom

has taught us

century after century

year after year

moment after moment

that human intelligence, strength,

courage and love

are truly noble

but often limited

in crucial ways

that the touch

and reach of angels is not.

And yet these notions of the angelic

also fortify

deeper…