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Leanna Stoufer's avatar

Powerful poem. Thank you for sharing this. I recently volunteered in Ukraine, providing trauma-care to civilians in recently de-occupied areas. I will be going back in June. One of the powerful reminders I was graced with is that life could very much be other than what I know on a daily basis. Again, thank you.

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Verna Wilder's avatar

Thank you for this poem that reminds me, even on this lovely spring day at the foot of the Rockies, that "otherwise" is a presence that lives with us--if we are willing to be aware. I love Jane Kenyon's writing, and I love yours. This phrase: ". . . filled with its own flawed grace." I'll write this phrase into my notebook and carry it with me today as I finish laundry, watch clouds build to the west, wander outside to look more closely at a tree that is--maybe--beginning to show buds.

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