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embedded in it all

admin — Tue, 16 Feb 2021 19:16:09 +0000

 I find my Dad’s stooped forward posture here
 and my Mom’s tightly accounting lips as well.
 Their every gesture and tone of voice
 every feeling and judgment and way of seeing
 all of it in my rulebook for betraying the magic
 that’s right here in the splashing of soapy water.
  
 But this boat-person Vietnamese Monk goes on to tell us
 how the store room contains all of our interconnections
 every star-born atom flowing through us,
 letting us off the hook of ever being a separate self. 
                              2019

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The Gospel at Friendship Baptist Church

admin — Fri, 13 Nov 2015 20:36:52 +0000

Reverend R. D. Daniels welcomed me into the Friendship Baptist Church to photograph his Sunday morning service. The usually quiet minister became a dynamic man as he preached the gospel. His words moved a teen-age girl to ask for forgiveness, comforted by Sister Thelma Daniels, the ministers wife.
Sister Dahl was quite responsive to the sermon and then broke down to mourn her husband who had died that week. Two Sisters helped her dance out her grieving.
Say Amen somebody!

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