Falling In Love

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Falling In Love

Have you ever "fallen" in love? It has always seemed strange to describe the moment of awakening to the beloved as “falling” in love. Falling implies a kind of losing control, which certainly applies, but also evokes an image of crashing to the ground and this is not right. To me, the feeling is the astonished delight of being swept up in a great force, a kind of teetering on the edge, both falling and being held, and floating weightless in the hands of something divine.

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How To Be Lucky

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How To Be Lucky

Have you ever wondered how to be lucky? We often place luck in the domain of "fate," something we are either favored with or deprived of, coming from outside of us and beyond our control. The Roman philosopher, Seneca, gave us this great quote: Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity. But this implies that we are preparing for something specific. Can we "prepare" to live lucky? 

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Love Will Not Give Up

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Love Will Not Give Up

This article is the conclusion excerpted from my latest book of Poetry: Falling Before Grace: I offer these poems to all who wonder, in the dark hours of life, if they have been left out or if they are unworthy of love. I offer them from the simple lesson poetry returns to me over and over again: even when I give up on love, love will not give up on me.

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