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Brendan UCSC College Nine

 Brendan Leung. Ollie at UCSC. Photo by: Paul Wingert







The Book Passage above says: Within us and around us there is an invisible world, this is where each of us comes from...When you cross over from the invisible into this physical world, you bring with you a sense of belonging to the invisible that you can never lose or finally cancel. When you enter the world, you come to live on the threshold between the visible & the invisible. Because the invisible cannot be seen or glimpsed with the human eye, it belongs largely to the unknown. Still there are occasional moments when the invisible seems to become faintly perceptive....Now you belong fully neither to the visible nor the invisible. This is precisely what kindles and rekindles and rekindles all your longing and your hunger to belong. You are both artist and pilgrim of the threshold. ~~~~from Eternal echoes by John O'Donohue



Sent to me from Corinne:

"She always had that about her, that look of otherness, of eyes that see things much too far and of thoughts that wander off the edge of the world."

JoAnne Harris
The Girl With No Shadow

Article: Words Fall Short of Grief

Article: Drinking the Tears of the World: Grief As Deep Activism

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Drinking the Tears of the World: Grief as Deep Activism    

Poem For Those Who Have Died: Judah Halevl 12th Century



For Those Who Have Died....

'Tis a fearful thing
To love
What death can touch.
To love, to hope, to dream,
And ah, to lose.
A thing for fools, this,
Love,
But a holy thing,
To love what death can touch.
For your life has lived in me;
Your laugh once lifted me;
Your word was a gift to me.
To remember this brings painful joy.
‘Tis a human thing, love, A holy thing,
To love
What death can touch.


Judah Halevl or
Emanuel of Rome - 12th Century