Bliss
Bliss (noun, \ˈblis\) is an emotional state that is characterised by perfect happiness (feelings of enjoyment, pleasure, and satisfaction).
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Warring Sighs and Groans I’ll Wage Thee
Robert Burns. Ae fond kiss, and then we sever; Ae fareweel, alas, for ever! Deep in heart-wrung tears I’ll pledge thee, Warring sighs and groans I’ll wage thee! Who shall say that Fortune grieves him...
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One Ever-during Night
Catullus at Lesbia’s by Sir Laurence Alma Tadema OM RA, 1836-1912. 1865. Oil on panel; 15 5/8″ x 21 1/2″; formerly Allen Funt Collection. Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus, rumoresque senum severiorum...
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Reality Upturned into Perversity
Crucifix by Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, Santa Maria del Santo Spirito di Firenze, Florence. We have heard so much in the past year about the mercy of God, as if the mercy of God does...
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For Laurie
John Denver in 1973. It was written after John and I had gone through a pretty intense time together and things were pretty good for us. He left to go skiing and he got on the Ajax chair on Aspen...
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Shining Moments
Fred Rogers on the set of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, 24 Nov 1976. In the external scheme of things, shining moments are as brief as the twinkling of an eye, yet such twinklings are what eternity is...
View ArticleThe Lad with the Curly Black Hair
LITTLE MARY OF LOCHOW. It is a tale of true love that I am going to tell this time. You know what that means. A man and a maid, with trystings in the gloaming, and a breaking heart at every good-bye....
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THE WAYFARER. I. Among those in the home-straths of Argyll who are now grey, and in the quiet places of whose hearts old memories live green and sweet, there must be some who recall that day when a...
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The starting point is only the love of God. There is no other solution. We can love our neighbor as God has loved us, just because God has loved us first. So, when we speak of love, we are not...
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That violence wherewith sometimes a man doteth upon one creature, is but a little spark of that love, even towards all, which lurketh in his nature. We are made to love, both to satisfy the necessity...
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