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“Let love / be the light that shows again / the blossom to the root.”

Eavan Boland, New Collected Poems; “Tree of Life”

“It was dark, then it was dark again. It was dark so long we thought the day was lost.”

Naomi Shihab Nye, Words Under the Words; “The Endless Indian Nights”

“The first section of Darkness is the densest, Dear — After that, Light trembles in —”

Emily Dickinson, from a letter to Susan Gilbert Dickinson, November 1883

“Following a fearful night I do not quite remember came a kind / of dawn, not light, / But something we could see by.”

Edna St. Vincent Millay, Collected Poems; “Dream of Saba”

“There is nothing to be done but to go ahead with life moment by moment … try to create order and peace around me even if I cannot achieve it inside of me.”

Katherine Mansfield, Letters of Katherine Mansfield 

“Love is not consolation, it is light.”

Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace; “Detachment”

“This night (she pointed to herself) is irreparable, but where you are (pointed at me) it’s still light.”

Anna Akhmatova, quoted by Nikolay Punin in The Diaries of Nikolay Punin

“This is the way of love, to survive only in perpetual loss.”

Do Nguyen Mai, Ghosts Still Walking; “The Forever Way”

“I have thought of you often since the darkness,”

Emily Dickinson, Selected Letters of Emily Dickinson

“This is us. This is all of us. Before we knew this life would shatter, moving wild and unwanted through the dark and the light.”

Safiya Sinclair, excerpt of “Family Portrait”

“…there are still so many people of courage who go on fighting in spite of all these reasons for despair.”

May Sarton, Journal of a Solitude

“Still, a great deal of light falls on everything.”

Vincent van Gogh, in a letter

“No, the abyss isn’t infinite. A half-light lurks even there.”

Traci Brimhall, Our Lady of the Ruins; “The Labyrinth” 

“I hope you have the power of hope,”

Emily Dickinson, Selected Letters of Emily Dickinson

“Maybe this is what love is, / And always will be, all my life. / Whispering, I give her an inch of hope / To bite on, like a bullet.”

Mary Oliver, New and Selected Poems; “Aunt Elsie’s Night Music”

“Alas, I know that these consolations amount to so little, for they are quickly used up and the heartache incessantly replenishes on its own.”

Rainer Maria Rilke, in a letter to Magdalena Schwammberger

“Everyone is dying, everything is dying, and the earth is dying all, eaten up by the sun and the wind. I don’t know where I get the courage to keep on living in the midst of these ruins. Let us love each other to the end.”

George Sand, in a letter to Gustave Flaubert

“Tenderness is always timely.”

Susan Sontag, Alice in Bed

“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. / Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. / Meanwhile, the world goes on.”

Mary Oliver, New and Selected Poems; “Wild Geese”

“How lightly we learn to hold hope, as if it were an animal that could turn around and bite your hand. And still we carry it the way a mother would, carefully, from one day to the next.”

Danusha Laméris, The Moons of August; “Insha’Allah”

“Make it your ambition to take heart.”

Rainer Maria Rilke, in a letter to Magdalena Schwammberger

“Faith, not fear, she said. She’d heard that once and was trying to stamp the phrase on her mind. At the time, she couldn’t speak it aloud.”

Claude Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric

“Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.”

Mary Oliver, Evidence

“Tonight there is no ocean that does not sing. Even sorrow, which we have felt again in all our lands, has hands.”

Naomi Shihab Nye, Words Under the Words; “With the Greeks”

“In the dark times / Will there also be singing? / Yes, there will be singing. / About the dark times.”

Bertolt Brecht

“This is the human way, she thought. On the edge of destruction, at the end of all things, we still dance. And hope.”

Rosamund Hodge, Crimson Bound

“A spirituality that is only private and self-absorbed, one devoid of an authentic political and social consciousness, does little to halt the suicidal juggernaut of history. On the other hand, an activism that is not purified by profound spiritual and psychological self-awareness and rooted in divine truth, wisdom, and compassion will only perpetuate the problem it is trying to solve, however righteous its intentions. When, however, the deepest and most grounded spiritual vision is married to a practical and pragmatic drive to transform all existing political, economic and social institutions, a holy force—the power of wisdom and love in action—is born. This force I define as Sacred Activism.”

— Andrew Harvey

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CHARACTER FACIAL EXPRESSIONS (WRITING REFERENCE)

EYES/BROWS

his eyes widened

her eyes went round

her eyelids drooped

his eyes narrowed

his eyes lit up

his eyes darted

he squinted

she blinked

her eyes twinkled

his eyes gleamed

her eyes sparkled

his eyes flashed

his eyes glinted

his eyes burned with…

her eyes blazed with…

her eyes sparked with…

her eyes flickered with…

_____ glowed in his eyes

the corners of his eyes crinkled

she rolled her eyes

he looked heavenward

she glanced up to the ceiling

she winked

tears filled her eyes

his eyes welled up

her eyes swam with tears

his eyes flooded with tears

her eyes were wet

his eyes glistened

tears shimmered in her eyes

tears shone in his eyes

her eyes were glossy

he was fighting back tears

tears ran down her cheeks

his eyes closed

she squeezed her eyes shut

he shut his eyes

his lashes fluttered

she batted her lashes

his brows knitted

her forehead creased

his forehead furrowed

her forehead puckered

a line appeared between her brows

his brows drew together

her brows snapped together

his eyebrows rose

she raised a brow

he lifted an eyebrow

his eyebrows waggled

she gave him a once-over

he sized her up

her eyes bored into him

she took in the sight of…

he glared

she peered

he gazed

she glanced

he stared

she scrutinized

he studied

she gaped

he observed

she surveyed

he gawked

he leered

his pupils (were) dilated

her pupils were huge

his pupils flared

NOSE

her nose crinkled

his nose wrinkled

she sneered

his nostrils flared

she stuck her nose in the air

he sniffed

she sniffled

MOUTH

she smiled

he smirked

she grinned

he simpered

she beamed

her mouth curved into a smile

the corners of his mouth turned up

the corner of her mouth quirked up

a corner of his mouth lifted

his mouth twitched

he gave a half-smile

she gave a lopsided grin

his mouth twisted

he plastered a smile on his face

she forced a smile

he faked a smile

her smile faded

his smile slipped

he pursed his lips

she pouted

his mouth snapped shut

her mouth set in a hard line

he pressed his lips together

she bit her lip

he drew his lower lip between his teeth

she nibbled on her bottom lip

he chewed on his bottom lip

his jaw set

her jaw clenched

his jaw tightened

a muscle in her jaw twitched

he ground his jaw

he snarled/his lips drew back in a snarl

her mouth fell open

his jaw dropped

her jaw went slack

he gritted his teeth

she gnashed her teeth

her lower lip trembled

his lower lip quivered

SKIN

she paled

he blanched

she went white

the color drained out of his face

his face reddened

her cheeks turned pink

his face flushed

she blushed

he turned red

she turned scarlet

he turned crimson

a flush crept up her face

WHOLE FACE, ETC.

he screwed up his face

she scrunched up her face

he grimaced

she winced

she gave him a dirty look

he frowned

she scowled

he glowered

her whole face lit up

she brightened

his face went blank

her face contorted

his face twisted

her expression closed up

his expression dulled

her expression hardened

she went poker-faced

a vein popped out in his neck

awe transformed his face

fear crossed her face

sadness clouded his features

terror overtook his face

recognition dawned on her face

SOURCE

1st Samuel 5:1-5

Afilisiti nĩ matahire ithandũkũ rĩa mathani

Makĩrĩtwara hema-inĩ ciao

Makĩrĩiga kũrĩa ngai cia Ndagoni ciakomaga

Ngai cia Njagoni ciaunĩkangire icunjĩ

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Nĩ mĩhianano ĩrĩkũ ĩngĩigananio nawe-Gũtirĩ-ĩ-ĩ

Ĩngĩigananio nawe ĩtiirie hinya waku

Ngai cia Ndagoni ciaunĩkangaga icunjĩ

I’m ready for more. I’m ready for new experiences. I’m ready for adventure. I’m ready for expansion. I’m ready for growth.

When your child says “Why can’t I get a puppy?”

Instead of defaulting to “My house, my rules”

Try “Any pet is a lot of responsibility. A puppy would have to be fed, walked, and taken outside to use the bathroom several times a day and taken for regular check-ups and vaccinations at the vet. You can’t do all of that by yourself, and I/we don’t have the time or money either.”

When your teenager says “Why can’t I come home at 2:00 this Saturday?”

Instead of defaulting to “My house, my rules!”

Try “The time you come home is a matter of respect and consideration. I/We will not only be concerned for your safety, but we would either be disturbed in the middle of the night when you arrive or forced to stay up for several extra hours waiting.”

When your child says “Why am I not allowed to do this thing?”

Instead of defaulting to “My house, my rules!”

Try actually communicating a legitimate reason, because children pick up on subtlety and on context and on the unspoken messages, and it’s better to teach children lessons like “You should think really hard before taking on new responsibilities” and “It’s important to show consideration for the needs of the people with whom you share a living space” than lessons like “It’s okay for people to demand your absolute obedience so long as you’re dependent on them for survival.”