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"Joyful Curmudgeon" An oxymoron?
No! I see all the beauty of God's creation and I'm joyful.  At the same time, I see all the suffering and corruption going on in the world, and feel called to help expose and end it so that we may have true peace and compassion.

 


Winter Is Good – 26 February 2009
By Mary T. Hoffman

For today I’ve chosen this poem that I found in an old book of Emily Dickinson’s poetry. I thought it would be appropriate, since it’s about winter, and today is a beautiful February day with the sun shining on the snow-covered frozen lake outside my window.

Winter Is Good
Emily Dickinson

Winter is good, his hoar delights
Italic flavor yield
To intellects inebriate
With summer or the world;

Generic as a quarry,
And hearty as a rose,
Invited with asperity,
But welcome when he goes.

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