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Shawna Lemay
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Equanimity and Oranges
Let’s begin with oranges and happiness and then we’ll talk about chaos, sure.
Do you know the poem by Wendy Cope, The Orange?
Here it is:
The OrangeAt lunchtime I bought a huge orange—
The size of it made us all laugh.
I peeled it and shared it with Robert and Dave—
They got quarters and I had a half.
And that orange, it made me so happy,
As ordinary things often do
Just lately. The shopping. A walk in t
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Rumi and the Red Handbag
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2015
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The Flower Can Always Be Changing
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Asking
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2014
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3 editions
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Calm Things: essays
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2008
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2 editions
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Apples on a Windowsill
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Everything Affects Everyone
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Hive: A Forgery
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2012
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All the God-sized Fruit (Hugh MacLennan Poetry Series) (Volume 2)
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1999
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Against Paradise
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2001
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Blue Feast
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2005
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“How to recognize what is real? To know the layers and depths of oneself, to know how to open, to know how to fill a capacious hold-all, to know one’s own quirks and nervous twitches, cravings and transparencies, and, above all the force, literally the force, of events, connections, the wild calm in every thing. ”
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“I pastiche, I quote, I lie. Fake, forge, forage, fabricate, copy, borrow, transform, steal. I illusion. I’m a genuine deceiver, a shy sham artist.”
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“Yet I never sought what is real, yearned for the real, but rather I have yearned for dreams more than solid things. I can say I love the textures of dreams. The way they hover and almost taste. The clouds and darkness that linger behind, mostly unseen. And the palette of dreams. You can almost taste the colours, they seem as words on the tip of the tongue, unsayable as pomegranate seeds, unsayable as thick cream, the darkness of such a thick cream. This is why I am obsessed with dreams. They know what we cannot. Night after night they try and tell us the impossible. Dreams are secret and closed, and also contain everything, gushing, splayed open. Dream suitcases, carpetbags, hold-alls. They influence us secretly and they draw me to travel to nowhere, to beauty’s passage, through halls of mirrors where I know I am not myself, I know I am sublime. ”
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“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”
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“Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.”
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“Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.”
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“May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful, and don't forget to make some art -- write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.”
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