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Quote of the week: Week of July 13, 2020

Be as a page that aches for a word

Which speaks on a theme that is timeless…

—Neil Diamond, lyrics from “Be”, from the Jonathan Livingston Seagull soundtrack

You do not have to be good.

You do not have to walk on your knees

for a hundred miles through the desert repenting.

You only have to let the soft animal of your body

love what it loves.

—Opening lines of Mary Oliver’s Wild Geese

Be a masterpiece and a work in progress at the same time.—Lisa Anita Wegner