Be not forgetful to entertain strangers…

I dread social obligations.  I go to parties just for the food.  I have more friends who are dead or in books (or both) than I do in real life.  I am most decidedly an introvert: the few, the proud, the much-misunderstood, the much-maligned. And yet… I have this thing for strangers.  Whether we’ve been [...]

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‘Tis love that’s born tonight

I’m not entirely sure what I’ve set out to write today. I’ve had lots of Christmas-y thoughts and feelings lately, though, and I hoped to express some of them. I know Christmas is a hard time of year for many people: some are lonely, some are grieving, some are suffering. However, as I sit here [...]

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That I might have the Sky

Before I got my eye put out
I liked as well to see –
As other Creatures, that have Eyes
And know no other way –

But were it told to me — Today –
That I might have the sky
For mine — I tell you that my Heart
Would split, for size of me –

The Meadows — mine –
The Mountains — mine –
All Forests — Stintless Stars –
As much of Noon as I could take
Between my finite eyes –

The Motions of the Dipping Birds –
The Morning’s Amber Road –
For mine — to look at when I liked –
The News would strike me dead –

So safer — guess — with just my soul
Upon the Window pane –
Where other Creatures put their eyes –
Incautious — of the Sun –

Emily Dickinson

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