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"Joyful Curmudgeon" An oxymoron?
No! I see all the beauty of God's creation and I'm joyful.  At the same time, I see all the suffering and corruption going on in the world, and feel called to help expose and end it so that we may have true peace and compassion.

 

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Memorial Day (traditional) – 30 May 2008
By Mary T. Hoffman

For some thoughts about Memorial Day, please visit:
http://www.all-creatures.org/heart/blog-20070530.html 

For today I’ve chosen this poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay:

Apostrophe to Man
(on reflecting that the world is ready to go to war again)
Edna St. Vincent Millay
(1892-1950)

Detestable race, continue to expunge yourself, die out.
Breed faster, crowd, encroach, sing hymns, build bombing planes;
Make speeches, unveil statues, issue bonds, parade;
Convert again into explosives the bewildered ammonia and distracted cellulose;
Convert again into putrescent matter drawing flies
The hopeful bodies of the young, exhort,
Pray, pull long faces, be earnest, be all but overcome, be photographed;
Confer, perfect your formulae, commercialize
Bacteria harmful to human tissue,
Put death on the market;
Breed, crowd, encroach, expand, expunge yourself, die out,
Homo called sapiens.

For a large collection of poems and stories, visit:
http://www.all-creatures.org/poetrydir.html 

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