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Tag: Seamus Heaney

Poetry

An extra-ness in the air

7 December, 20147 December, 2014 Karl MöllerLeave a comment

… there was an extra-ness in the air, as if a gate had been left open in the usual life, as if something might get in or get out.

From Seamus Heaney’s book District and Circle

In celebration of


‘You have to trust that every true friendship has no end …. The love you give and receive is a reality that will lead you closer and closer to God as well as to those whom God has given you to love.’

(Henri J. M. Nouwen, The Inner Voice of Love: A Journey through Anguish to Freedom)

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