Marion Dane Bauer 6/17/25 Marion Dane Bauer 6/17/25

Of the People, By the People, For the People

That the government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

Marion Dane Bauer 6/10/25 Marion Dane Bauer 6/10/25

On Growing Deaf

In my mother’s final years,

deafness crept up on her,

Marion Dane Bauer 6/3/25 Marion Dane Bauer 6/3/25

Even as We Fall

What if you felt the invisible

tug between you and everything?...

Marion Dane Bauer 5/27/25 Marion Dane Bauer 5/27/25

Don’t Tell Me

Don’t tell me that Jesus loves me.

Marion Dane Bauer 5/20/25 Marion Dane Bauer 5/20/25

Until the Walk Itself is Home

I want to have a conversation

that we can return to without

conclusion, one that lasts for

years, that feels like a walk that

has no end.

Marion Dane Bauer 5/13/25 Marion Dane Bauer 5/13/25

A Caterpillar Must Die

A caterpillar must die

for a butterfly to be born.

Marion Dane Bauer 5/6/25 Marion Dane Bauer 5/6/25

Letting Go of the World

I find that there are two ways of dealing with a growing litany of physical limitations: we can either feel that the world is closing in around us or we can feel that we are starting to let go of the world.

Marion Dane Bauer 4/29/25 Marion Dane Bauer 4/29/25

Discovery

I have thought myself a lover of nature,

Marion Dane Bauer 4/22/25 Marion Dane Bauer 4/22/25

Grateful for My Heart

It’s something I’ve thought of often, the ways I learned from my parents and from the larger culture that self-regard

Beth-Alison Berggren 4/15/25 Beth-Alison Berggren 4/15/25

A Thought

I remember exactly where I was standing

when the thought dropped on me

like a bomb from the

summer sky.