Life on the World Scale

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Dust In the Wind

I close my eyes Only for a moment, and the moment's gone All my dreams Pass before my eyes, a curiosity

Same old song Just a drop of water in an endless sea All we do Crumbles to the ground, though we refuse to see Dust in the wind All we are is dust in the wind

Now don't hang on Nothing lasts forever but the earth and sky It slips away And all your money won't another minute buy Dust in the wind All we are is dust in the wind…

Dust in the wind All they are is dust in the wind

Mantra

Vitamin D. Sunlight. Go outside.

Exercise. Actually exercise instead of just Googling it. Eat well. Cook for yourself. Organize your closet, the garage. Drink plenty of water and repeat after me: I am not a problem to be solved. Repeat after me: I am worthy I am worthy I am neither mistake nor the punishment. Forget to take vitamins. Let the houseplant die.

Shave your head. Forget this poem. It doesn’t matter.

Get a good night of sleep. Not too good.

There is no wrong way to remember the grace of your

own body; no choice that can unmake itself. There is only now, here,

Not shades drawn forever good. Not like you used to.

look: you are already forgiven.

Open the windows.

Buy more houseplants. Breathe. Meditate. (One day,

you will no longer be afraid of being alone with your thoughts.)

Eat spoonfuls of peanut butter.

- from Today Means Amen by Sierra DeMulder (Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2016). Copyright © 2016 by Sierra DeMulder. Reprinted and used with permission from Sierra DeMulder.

Oh, What a Beautiful City

Oh! What a beautiful city! Oh! What a beautiful city! Oh! What a beautiful city! Twelve gates to the city Hallelu! Three gates in-a the east

Three gates in-a the west Three gates in-a the north Three gates in-a the south Makin’ it twelve gates to the city Hallelu!

My Lord built-a that city Said it was just-a fo’ square Wanted all-a you sinners To meet Him in-a the air Makin’ it twelve gates-a to city Hallelu!