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A Roundabout Post for Black History Month

laura bruno lilly — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 01:01:15 +0000

Note: It would not be prudent for me to share how the past 29 days of our lives have been personally & directly changed within our family and friends since 1/20/2025. Or specific instances of how those changes reach farther than just us. Instead, what follows is an attempt at showing in a less threatening […]

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Giving Voice: Lessons from the Desert

laura bruno lilly — Sun, 23 Aug 2020 14:01:17 +0000

“If the (desert tortoise) survives it will not be because of its capacity to survive, but our capacity to care.” Terry Tempest Williams, Red: Passion & Patience in the desert “It’s no longer about survival of the fittest, but survival of compassion.” Terry Tempest Williams, Red: Passion & Patience in the desert Photos: Desert Tortoise, […]

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Giving Voice: Shelter

laura bruno lilly — Tue, 08 Oct 2019 00:54:56 +0000

Shelter. That’s maybe all man has ever wanted. Shelter; warmth; food. from: Andrew James Murray Lately the term, “desperately displaced” has been bandied about. As if living ‘between homes – displaced’ is not desperate in and of itself… Giving Voice to those seeking safe places to live and hunker down; where surviving IS thriving. […]

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Giving Voice: Homelessness due to housing crisis

laura bruno lilly — Sun, 07 Apr 2019 01:39:43 +0000

Fact: In Ireland, the number of families made newly homeless rose from 39 in January 2017 to 113 in August. A total of 1,698 families are now estimated to be living in emergency accommodation across the country, the vast majority of which were either evicted by private landlords or were unable to afford a rent […]

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longest night, Reflections during

laura bruno lilly — Sat, 22 Dec 2018 02:09:58 +0000

Winter Solstice: a day with the least amount of sunshine potential; the shortest day and longest night; a time of reversals. To me, the Winter Solstice feels more like the ending of the past year with the dawning of the true ‘new year.’ An organic New Year’s Eve, so to speak. What better time to […]

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Notes on the Page (Poem)

laura bruno lilly — Wed, 21 Nov 2018 03:17:29 +0000

Notes on the page wrestle out feelings deep inside – a flesh and blood yearning for home. Notes on the page travel through these fingers dancing the strings finding spoken out loud music words. Notes on the page SpeakSing this singular woman’s (he)art.

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Peace Post: You can be the Revolution

laura bruno lilly — Fri, 07 Sep 2018 12:04:30 +0000

“You cannot buy the Revolution. You cannot make the Revolution. You can only be the Revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.” -Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed Talkin’ ’bout a Revolution by Tracy Chapman Don’t you know They’re talkin’ ’bout a revolution It sounds like a whisper Don’t you know They’re […]

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Virtual Brownie Sharing Circle #3

laura bruno lilly — Fri, 06 Apr 2018 09:12:23 +0000

Taste and see that the Lord is good; blessed is the one who takes refuge in Him Psalms 34:8 This edition of the Virtual Brownie Sharing Circle answers the question presented in the first VBSC post: What exactly is the missing ingredient in my ‘loaded brownies minus one ingredient’? In a word: Lavender. In a […]

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Giving Voice: It Was Children – and – It Was Intentional

laura bruno lilly — Sun, 28 May 2017 02:53:12 +0000

My blogger-poet-friend, Andy, is a native Mancunian. These are excerpts taken from his account of and reactions to this attack of the innocents. Around the time I went to bed the bomb went off. I was totally unaware of what had happened until around 3.00am, when my wife woke me. Friends from around the country, […]

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Giving Voice: "Das eigene Haus"

laura bruno lilly — Mon, 20 Mar 2017 11:36:53 +0000

Sarah of Art Expedition graciously gave me permission to post her photo and essay on my Giving Voice series. We both stand united against the indifference towards those displaced populations within our respective countries (in addition to the wider world scenario) – and do what we can within our (he)art to Give Voice… Sarah is […]

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