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Margaret Manring's avatar

What a marvelous essay. Thank you.

Looking for a way to jimmy the the human connection to spark can become a hobby. Bless your grocery clerk for the tinder. Bless you for the flame.

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Skip Adams's avatar

The administrative shit-show swirling around us, what is passing for government for and by the people these days, is built on creating artificial scarcity, emotionally as well as in product. it all leads to a dearth of love. It ends up manifesting as exclusion, even as we are being told that this is the way to survive. Have purity codes, in whatever form, ever worked? Do read Robin Wall Kimmerer's new book/series of essays, called "The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World." in it she says, "Wealth and security come from the quality of our relationships, not from the illusion of self-sufficiency." I so appreciate you sharing the sacramental encounter with the grocery clerk. What grace!

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