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Tag: “A Good Samaritan and the Border Patrol”

Posted on May 19, 2019May 20, 2019

Let All the Good Samaritans of the Earth Come Forth

LET ALL THE GOOD SAMARITANS come forth from every city, town, village, and wayside in the desert, Let all the Good Samaritans of the earth come forth in such numbers as to overwhelm the wickedness of the Trump administration with a love of God and neighbor so great that all manner of goodness shall prevail, …

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LIFE’S MOST SIGNIFICANT TURNINGS arise not so much from conscious awareness of obvious destinies as from unconscious streams of necessity to which we are irrepressibly drawn. Painting, like poetry, song, or dance, is vocation—a “calling forth,” a “summoning”—and in that sense a “birthing” of something deep from within, tied to a transcending future with primal roots in a grounding past. (Bone Dead, and Rising, 69)

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