Author Archives: Susan L Daniels

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About Susan L Daniels

I am a firm believer that politics are personal, that faith is expressed through action, and that life is something that must be loved and lived authentically--or why bother with any of it?

the miraculous reduced to the mundane

Posted on January 16, 2014 by Susan L Daniels

singular each of these falling is something new unseen in shape since the beginning shoveled from sidewalks brushed from cars what was unique drifts mundane in collective reduced by quantity to something less special and more routine in plural

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fragment 1/15/2014

Posted on January 15, 2014 by Susan L Daniels

I am no god, but pay a divine price for what I learn. I did not trade an eye for wisdom; Just this heart bargained for a moment. Listen. Absence speaks loudest in a quiet place where pulse rioted hope … Continue reading →

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2013 in review

Posted on December 31, 2013 by Susan L Daniels

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 28,000 times in 2013. If it were a … Continue reading →

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spelling

Posted on December 27, 2013 by Susan L Daniels

When I first loved you, maybe I wrote your name on a piece of paper and floated it in honey, or maybe I chanted it at midnight, on a night cold as this one, where speech is visible as breath, … Continue reading →

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lake effect

Posted on December 14, 2013 by Susan L Daniels

In Cairo and Palestine snow is as holy as manna gathered quickly in the morning to shape snowmen or drink in that cold desert– the same whiteness covers so many scars in the cities of my continent cracked pavement broken … Continue reading →

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a convenient attack of sometimes

Posted on December 5, 2013 by Susan L Daniels

They want to meter sunlight in a convenient attack of sometimes where truth is less than the sum of its spin and I am less in love with language in favor of words: bone, cup, water; a simple speech of … Continue reading →

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A Defining Moment

Posted on December 2, 2013 by Susan L Daniels

I have been swimming in a sea of talking points instead of conversation, and am at risk of drowning.  Recently, I joined an across-the-political-spectrum discussion group on Facebook, and generally have been having a lot of fun exchanging perspectives and … Continue reading →

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