Christmas When Music Almost Killed the World
ABERJHANIThe singular historic moment millions now celebrate could have been tragically lost to guerrilla decontextualization.
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Unless you are here: this garden refuses to exist. Pink dragonflies fall from the air and become scorpions scratching blood out of rocks.
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Rainbows introduce us to reflections of different beautiful possibilities so we never forget that pain and grief are not the final options in life.
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To heal the wounds of a nation as opposed to aggravate its injuries
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Shine your soul with the same egoless humility as the rainbow and no matter where you go in this world or the next, love will find you, attend you, and bless you.
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Now come the whispers bearing bouquets of moonbeams and sunlight tremblings.
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Groping their way through suffocating shadows of political turmoil, economic oppression, military mayhem, starvation, and disease.
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Dare to love yourself as if you were a rainbow with gold at both ends.
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Movies can provide tear-inducing or comically-entertaining representations of love, but many agree that its deeper conflicting complexities often seem unfathomable.
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We are living in an era in which billions of people are grappling to promote communication, tolerance, and understanding over the more destructive forces of war
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Within the universe of the extraordinary, those qualities we designate to human concepts of gender are often shared, exchanged, or even completely obliterated.
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There is in Albert Camus’ literary craftsmanship a seductive intelligence that could almost make a reader dismiss his philosophical intentions if he had not insisted on making them so clear.
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When a reader enters the pages of a book of poetry, he or she enters a world where dreams transform the past into knowledge
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In honor of Oprah Winfrey: Even greater than the ability to inspire others with hope is the power to motivate them to give as much to the lives of others as they would give to their own
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Beauty from another world gave birth to your voice– sent to rescue scorned hearts from traumatized nights.
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They may have for their lives, or, exercising sufficient strength of will to make those dreams a reality.
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Love, Mercy, and Grace, sisters all, attend your wounds of silence and hope.
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War poisons the land Like diseased minds downloaded/ into bowls of tears.
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The same hot lightning that burns your blood with passion–– cools your fears with peace.
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By striving so mightily to accomplish specific goals on behalf of one segment of humanity, she [Toni Morrison] went beyond them to create literary wonders capable of enriching the lives of not just her own people, but of all people.
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As painful as life can be at times for people all over the world there is some component of existence, or nonexistence perhaps,
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The job facing American voter in the days and years to come is to determine which hearts, minds and souls command those qualities best suited to unify a country rather than further divide it,
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She [Whitney Houston] inherited gifts for skillfully interpreting lyrics and endowing them with new depth and jeweled nuance.
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As sad as it may be to admit, in our modern world people are far more accustomed to hearing news of war, genocide, murder, disasters, famine, and disease
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Literary genres and techniques tend to take form in one’s mind somewhat the way computer templates provide form for different computer tasks.
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Like a Passover Poet gliding from house to house and from trembling soul to trembling soul the wind scribbled sonnets of first time love and weeping haikus of last hours on earth.
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The whole purpose of the construction of The Bridge of Silver Wings was to provide a path leading to The River of Winged Dreams, or to serve as a resting place until the river’s deeper and truer nature revealed itself.
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