The sun leans down. The water yields, lets go of ocean, pond, and fields, and rises light, too fine to see — a thousand pieces, wandering free. But height was never what it sought. The scattered come back to the thought, and gather close, and grow, and fall, and answer earth’s old downward call. No…

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Family, Friends, Coworkers: Humans live in society. We interact with the people around us, and in broad terms they fall into three buckets: family, friends, and coworkers.Each bucket has its own dynamics. The differences are worth examining, because most of us treat all three the same way and then wonder why some hold and others…

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What a Sparrow Knows That We Have Forgotten This morning at a bird feeder, I observed something that made me think. A fledgling sparrow — old enough to pick up grain by herself, and doing so — suddenly flickered her wings in a particular way. Her mother, who had been watching, immediately picked up a…

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