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Episode 39:The Gift of Presence with Poet & Educator Naomi Shihab Nye

The Growing Edge

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The Gift of Love That the Father Gives the Son in Shoulders

The best gift we have to give each other is ourselves. We're not going to be able to live in this world if we're not willing to do what he's doing with one another. The road will only wide. The rain will never stop falling. Naomi, i have a vivid memory of the very first time i read that poem and how it moved me and touched me. And how i knew that i had found a text to use in my own ongoing efforts to call myself and other people to citizenship,. To ponsibility for each other in this society.

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