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A Lamentation for Violence (in Two Voices)

Posted on October 29, 2018 by KGJ

October 28, 2018 Spirit of Life and Love, Possibility of Mercy and Peace, Impulse towards Compassion, Yearning for Comfort in times of Fear, our hearts echo these words from the poet Warsan Shire: We lament the very fact of this … Continue reading →

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What To Do with Beauty?

Posted on December 3, 2015 by KGJ

Inspired by the words of Robert McAfee Brown and Sean Dennison What to do with beauty? or joy, for that matter — in the midst of tragedy, of violence, of cruelty?   What do we do with the living?   … Continue reading →

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On Kindness After Tragedy: This Can Still Happen Anywhere

Posted on November 5, 2013 by KGJ

I know there is talk about how, after 9/11, there was a change in this country.  Or at least in NYC.  That people were nice to each other, looked after each other, cared for strangers, in ways that had not … Continue reading →

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