A View From The Rubble
Then again, the color wouldn't be so vibrant without the gray.
Young Monk, Laos A young monk is pictured at a small monastery in the town of Luang Prabang. (PHOTO OF THE MONTH by Oded Wagenstein from the 2011 National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest - source)
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“In Louisville, at the corner of Fourth and Walnut, in the center of the shopping district, I was suddenly overwhelmed with the realization that I loved all those people, that they were mine and I theirs, that we could not be alien to one another even though we were total strangers. It is a glorious destiny to be a member of the human race… there is no way of telling people that they are all walking around shining like the sun.” ~ Thomas Merton
"It seems only yesterday I used to believe
there was nothing under my skin but light.
If you cut me I could shine."
~ Billy Collins
Bishes...
That you shine...
Not because you can, but because YOU DO.
************** (Thank you, sista Suebob, for that FANTASTIC Thomas Merton contribution!) (source of photo) ************************************
Glow.
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