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| VOLUME 31 ISSUE 2 : THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS |
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 The pursuit of happiness takes many
forms in Volume 31 Issue 2 (Summer 2006) of Pilgrimage. In “Poets
in America,” Robert Dawson recalls
his own calling as a poet and some
of the complexities that came with
it. In “The Blue Beacon,” David Ray
considers the economic gravity that
pulls a young man north from Guate-
mala to the borderlands of the United
States and Mexico. Brenda Liebling-
Goldberg considers the plight of a
romantic Francophile in Alvin, Texas.
Kim Stafford (“Highway 83 North /
Out of Liberal / 5am”) takes us out
on the road in pursuit of connection with family.
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| VOLUME 31 ISSUE 1 : OPENINGS |
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The stories in this issue take place in a variety of circumstances: on an expedition to a hidden valley in the Himalayas, in an encounter with a good Samaritan on a plane journey coming home from Korea, at an AA meeting in Santa Barbara, in a numinous moment on an island in the North Pacific, in the reveries that come while playing nocturnes on the piano, on retreat at a
Zen center in the ...
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| VOLUME 30 ISSUE 3 : HOPE |
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“To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.”
~Emily Dickinson |
| VOLUME 30 ISSUE 2 : BORDERLANDS |
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Every bristling shaft of pride
church or nation, team or tribe
Every notion we subscribe to
is just a borderline. Good or bad,
we think we know , as if thinking
make things so! All convictions
grow along a borderline...
~Joni Mitchell |
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...I recalled being taught to go outside in the gray dawn
before sunrise to receive blessings of gentle spirits
who gathered round our home. Go out, we were told,
get your blessings for the day
~Luci Tapahonso |
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At night make me one with the darkness
In the morning make one with the light
~Wendell Berry |
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Some people try to turn back their odometers. Not me. I want people
to know why I look this way. I’ve traveled a long way and some of his
roads weren’t paved.
~Will Rogers |
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When the snake decided to go straight, he didn’t get anywhere.
~William Stafford |
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The geographical pilgrimage is the symbolic acting out of an inner
journey. The inner journey is the interpolation of the meaning and
signs of the outer pilgrimage. One can have one without the other:
it is best to have both.
~Thomas Merton |
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