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Channel Esther: What We Forgive Again
by Esther Cohen
Peter said
do you understand how possible it is
to have a good life with very little
it is the time of year when we can
forgive all our wanting, when we
can understand we don’t have to do
all that seems necessary that we can’t
by ourselves make the world
better. We can try.
Just a little. We can invite
the man from Albania and his wife
to dinner. We can be there
as much as we can. We can
understand how human
we all are.
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