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Belief isn’t always easy.
But this much I have learned —
if not enough else —
to live with my eyes open.

I know what everyone wants
is a miracle.
This wasn’t a miracle.
Unless, of course, kindness —

as now and again
some rare person has suggested —
is a miracle.
As surely it is.

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— Mary Oliver, from “In the Storm” (with thanks to Love Is A Place)
January 21st
Tags: poetry, lit, Mary Oliver, In the Storm, thoughts that breathe,

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