League of Inveterate Poets

Foolish Sage | November 30, 2009

The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes.
Barabara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible

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Foolish Sage | November 3, 2009

We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already; we have the power to imagine better.
- J. K. Rowling (http://harvardmagazine.com/go/jkrowling.html – quoted in Harry Potter and Imagination: The Way Between Worlds by Travis Prinzi, p. iv.)

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Foolish Sage | September 11, 2009

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The questions make new worlds possible. Like well-told jokes, they let the air in. We get to put questions to each other and the to the world we too often settle for. Question make a way where we often fear there is no way in our families, our neighborhoods, and in [...]

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Foolish Sage | September 3, 2009

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While we’re often rewarded in life for playing at absolute confidence, the pretense and the mind games are corrosive to the possibility of community, friendship and redeeming love. Imagine letting go of the psychic burden of certainty. Imagine backing down from our imagined infallibility and assuming the mantle of a mere [...]

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