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Marilyn McEntyre

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Where Branches Touch

Today I won’t pretend to understandthe ways we care for one another.Today I will simply standin these thick woods and lovehow the branches of one

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Burned at the Stake

Heretic martyr, chained to the stake, Jan Hus sangand prayed while a hooded executioner held a torchto the dry sticks that pricked his feetand a

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Paying Attention

I recently finished reading Stolen Focus by Johann Hari and have been urging friends to hasten out, get a copy, and do likewise. In this

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Dr. Ida

Most kids my age wouldn’t have found a lengthy biography of a medical missionary gripping summer reading. I wasn’t a particularly pious child, though my

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Poetry

Fallowing

Fallowing soil is a method of sustainable land management used by farmers for centuries . . . Arable land lies unsown,unplowed, unvisited except by noiselesscreatures going

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