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This Time Of Life — From My Coffee To Yours

A few words of wonder, over coffee this morning.

This time of life and of living,
it is familiar,
isn’t it.

Because, well, it’s connected to all the other times.

You’ve learned how to persevere before.
You’ve learned to lean to friends before.
You’ve learned to start again before.

But then, this time of life and of living,
it’s also new,
isn’t it.

Because it asks us to go beyond the known 
aaperseverances,
aafriendships,
aaand new starts.

Beyond all those good and sensible compromises.
Beyond all those convenient animosities and outrages.
Beyond most of those things that keep us busy and distracted.

I sit with my cup of coffee.
Perhaps you do with yours.

And we think of living heart-filled lives, 
living with kindness in the knowns and the news
in these times, don’t we.

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