Category Archives: Daily Offerings

blessing the boats

blessing the boats                (at St. Mary’s) may the tide that is entering even now the lip of our understanding carry you out beyond the face of fear may you kiss the wind then turn from it certain that it … Continue reading

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Meaning

  Meaning If a life needn’t be useful to be meaningful, Then maybe a life of sunbathing on a beach Can be thought of as meaningful for at least a few, The few, say, who view the sun as a … Continue reading

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With Music

With Music Dear, did we meet in some dim yesterday?    I half remember how the birds were mute    Among green leaves and tulip-tinted fruit, And on the grass, beside a stream, we lay In early twilight; faintly, far … Continue reading

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i thank You God for most this amazing

  i thank You God for most this amazing i thank You God for most this amazing day: for the leaping greenly spirits of trees and a blue true dream of sky: and for everything which is natural which is … Continue reading

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Tax Day Limericks!!

There was a young fellow from Boise Who at times was exceedingly noise.    So his friends’ joy increased    When he moved way back east To what people in Brooklyn called Joise.                                     (John Straley) A lusty young wench … Continue reading

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Meeting at Night The gray sea and the long black land; And the yellow half-moon large and low: And the startled little waves that leap In fiery ringlets from their sleep, As I gain the cove with pushing prow, And … Continue reading

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At a Dinner Party

At a Dinner Party With fruit and flowers the board is decked,    The wine and laughter flow; I’ll not complain — could one expect    So dull a world to know? You look across the fruit and flowers,    … Continue reading

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Provisions

Provisions What should we have taken with us? We never could decide on that; or what to wear, or at what time of year we should make the journey So here we are in thin raincoats and rubber boots On … Continue reading

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I Wish in the City of Your Heart

  I Wish in the City of Your Heart I wish in the city of your heart you would let me be the street where you walk when you are most yourself. I imagine the houses: It has been raining, … Continue reading

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Darling Coffee The periodic pleasure of small happenings is upon us – at the farmer’s market snow glinting in heaps, a cardinal its chest puffed out, bloodshod above the piles of awnings, passion’s proclivities; you picking up a sweet potato … Continue reading

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