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On Being with Krista Tippett

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The House of Appearance

i'm also intrigued by em. You know, aloneness. And i do feel if you can touch that sense of aloneness, you can live with any one. Those are lovely poems it's rather long, the house of belonging. But these em lines i wrote down, this is the bright home in which i live. This is where i want to love all the things it has taken me so long to learn to love. I belong to that aloneness as i belong to my life. There is no house like the house of belonged.

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