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Jun 12, 2020

"To begin by always thinking of love as an action rather than a feeling is one way in which anyone using the word in this manner automatically assumes accountability and responsibility." --bell hooks

Spell to Be Said Against Hatred

"It is especially in times of uncertainty, in tremulous times of fear and loss, that the curtain rises and the minstrel show resumes -- a show of hate that can be as vicious and pointed as the murderous violence human beings are capable of directing at one another, or as ambient and slow-seething as the deadly disregard for the universe of non-human lives with which we share this fragile, irreplaceable planet.[...] How to end the mockery and the minstrel show is what poet Jane Hirshfield -- one of the most unboastfully courageous voices of our time, an ordained Buddhist, a more-than-humanitarian: a planetarian -- explores in "Spell to Be Said against Hatred," a miniature masterwork of quiet, surefooted insistence and persistence."