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Sep 8, 2023

"Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.

" --Abraham Joshua Heschel

Shrine

Tracey Schmidt performs her poem Shrine, an evocative poem about love, about self, and about fitting into the world. Her whole being becomes a shrine through which divisions between herself and the rest of the world recede and "then the love fits perfectly," and her life shines brilliantly.