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A psalm of summer
It's a day full of birdsong and bloomings,when heat has at last settled in,reaching the extremities—some collective, remembered fear of heat lingers—the locusts are silenced by a low-flying helicopter, briefly.
I'm sweeping the studio floorand some poetry in this act turns me hometo the written word:that is—how this is the time of yearwhen small ephemeral spidersscurry away from the broomon translucent legs with invisible pinpoint bodies,belying their presence by motion only and sunlight reflected.To me they are the unexpectedness,the apparent transience and swift slipping away of summer.Is it here now? In respect, I put aside the broom,deserting small gatherings of dirt and powdered clayand settling dust, to reflect in words.

August 21, 2000 issue
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To Our Readers
Mary Metzner Trammell
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YOUR LETTERS
with contributions from Paul Sheridan, Don L. Griffith, Sharon Jeffrey
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items of interest
with contributions from Bruce Lloyd, Philip Jenkins, Ira Berkow, Ann Shields, Tim Stafford
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Let's end mob violence
By Rosalie E. Dunbar
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SAFE IN A PROTESTING CROWD
Enrique Smeke
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Live and learn
By Judith Haugan Ryan
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LEARNING TO LOVE READING
Jacquelyn G. F. Shay
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Home yet?
By Shirley J. Clark Jones
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Stand up for what's true about you
By Beatrice W. Reinertson
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A psalm of summer
By Roselyn G. Paul
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Goldie and Sam
By Claire Fisher
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Dear Sentinel
Erin Swinney
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Calm trust in God ends flu symptoms
Lucile Snyder
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Child prays and is healed
Grace Abbott with contributions from Melissa Abbott
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A lifetime of blessings
Robert Charles Koehler
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Prayer heals severe pain
Ruth Farcau
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Head injury quickly healed
Lois Izard
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How I was healed of eczema
By Kathryn Jones Dunton
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God and the Internet
Cyril Rakhmanoff