November 2011
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Nov 30th
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "A Psalm of Life"  →
Tell me not, in mournful numbers,   Life is but an empty dream! ? For the soul is dead that slumbers,   And things are not what they seem.  Life is real!  Life is earnest!   And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest,   Was not spoken of the soul.  Not enjoyment, and not sorrow,   Is our destined end or way; But to act, that each to-morrow   Find us farther than to-day. ...
Nov 30th
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Nov 29th
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Nov 29th
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Naomi Shihab Nye, "The Traveling Onion" →
It is believed that the onion originally came from India. In Egypt it was an object of worship—why I haven’t been able to find out. From Egypt the onion entered Greece and on to Italy, thence into all of Europe.  —Better Living Cookbook When I think how far the onion has traveled just to enter my stew today, I could kneel and praise all small forgotten miracles, crackly paper peeling on the...
Nov 27th
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Nov 26th
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Nov 26th
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Nov 26th
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Nov 22nd
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Nov 22nd
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Nov 22nd
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Nov 22nd
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Nov 21st
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Nov 21st
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Nov 20th
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Nov 16th