The Collected Writings of Brian J. Mueller
A single poem, met at the right moment, can change a life.
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...just one part of the life cycle.
There comes a time when a tree can no longer stand tall as a tree and falls to the ground. Likewise a rock will one day split open and give itself to the wind, one grain of sand at a time. I, too, am being simplified, broken down at the spiritual as well as the molecular levels into my constituent pieces, each of them a part of the whole.
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