Love And Leave

Only love can be divided endlessly and still not diminish.
—  Anne Morrow Lindbergh
They are not dead who live in the hearts they leave behind.
—  Native American Proverb
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The Opening Step

The first step in personhood is to allow ourselves to be loved.  To know ourselves loved is to have the depths of our own capacity to love opened up.
—  John Main
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2017	Luv Me Some Meat Loaf
2016	Unless Your Name Is #AmnestyDon
2015	A Tentative First Step
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2013	On Reading Books
2012	On America
2011	Shiver, Me Timbers!
2010	Fiduciary Breakdown

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Have Forever

What love we’ve given, we’ll have forever.  What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity.
—  Leo Buscaglia
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2018	Fear, Racism And Greed
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2017	We Can Figure This Out
2016	Just Enough
2015	Bourne Bond
	Springs Eternal
2014	Brains First
2013	Not Listening Anymore
2012	At Your Marks!
2011	We Are Not Alone
	Underlying Rationality
2010	Is the Obama Administration Failing?
	In Other Words…
	Quite Please!
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	In Order…
	Flip-flopping…
	Proof of Choice…
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Ebb And Flow

When you love someone you do not love them all the time, in exactly the same way, from moment to moment.  It is an impossibility.  It is even a lie to pretend to.  And yet this is exactly what most of us demand.  We have so little faith in the ebb and flow of life, of love, of relationships.  We leap at the flow of the tide and resist in terror its ebb.  We are afraid it will never return.  We insist on permancy, on duration, on continuity, when the only continuity possible, in life as in love, is in growth, in fluidity — in freedom.
—  Anne Morrow Lindbergh
From her book: “Gift From The Sea“
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2016	Maybe Someday
2015	How’s The Cow?
2014	Mind Made Up
2013	On Purpose
2012	The Dream
2011	What Could Be More Comfortable?

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Close, Sustained, Careful, Daily

Because I am a novelist, one thing I know very well is that close, sustained, careful, daily attention is a profound form of love.
—  Lauren Groff
From her opinion / editorial: “Prairie Escape“
Appearing in:  Time Magazine, 6 August / 13 August 2018
[It sounds like being a good parent or a good friend to me.  —  KMAB]
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2015	That You Shall Remain
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2014	True, Vibrant And Open
2013	Remembering, Yet Again
2012	Something Of Value
2011	Sleep All Day

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The Best Gifts

The best gifts to give:
To your friend, loyalty;
To your enemy, forgiveness;
To your boss, service;
To a child, a good example;
To your parents, gratitude and devotion;
To your mate, love and faithfulness;
To all men and women, charity.
—  Oren Arnold
[In the original, the quote is a single sentence.  I’ve modified the format to suit my “poetic” taste.  There is a variation on this quote which reads:  ]
“A Christmas gift suggestion:  To your enemy, forgiveness.  To an opponent, tolerance.  To a friend, heart.  To a customer, service.  To all, charity.  To every child, a good example.  To yourself, respect.”  —  Oren Arnold
[I like both versions – even when it’s not Christmas Season.  —  KMAB]
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2014	Without The Other
2013	Earn This
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2012	Stumblin’ Along My Way
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2011	Simply Unpredictable

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Don’t Forget: Fire Burns

When men have harnessed the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, they will harness for God the energies of love, and then for the second time in the history of this world, man will have discovered Fire.
—  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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On This Day In:
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2017	A Good Local
2016	Life Unlimited
2015	Still Trying
2014	Destiny, n.
2013	No Apologies
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2011	A Key To Effectiveness

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