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postcards from an edge

I was going through some boxes and rediscovered an index card box I'd begun in 2003. During this time, I was still unemployed, writing scads of poems and getting deeply involved in the theory of poetics, and I was thumbing through the religious artefacts that my great-aunt Helen had had. (She had an aggressive bout of Alzheimer's come on, so we had the strange inversion of going through her effects before she had even passed.)

She'd left her notebooks from the church I'd been brought up in. ( tangential digression )

I don't recall the process by which I organized these quotes, but their order does seem to have a cumulative effect. I was in a certain mindset, a lot of free time, a lot of cognitive collusions studying poetry, theology and philosophy.

I'll put them in a separate post, which also will be posted to spiritoflife (*blows the dust off the community*).

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All emphases mine.

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After he had sent them across the stream, he sent over all his possessions. So Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him till [sic] daybreak. When the man saw that he could not overpower him, he touched the socket of Jacob's hip so that his hip was wrenched as he wrestled with the man. Then the man said, "Let me go, for it is daybreak." But Jacob replied, "I will not let you go unless you bless me." The man asked him, "What is your name?" "Jacob," he answered. Then the man said, "Your name will no longer be Jacob but Israel, because you have struggled with God and with men and have overcome." ( Read more... )

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I just whipped up a pineapple ginger chicken thing that isn't half bad.

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