
“Your personal boundaries protect the inner core of your identity and your right to Choices.” Gerard Manley Hopkins
Wrapping From my earliest moments of cogito, the eye of my I, O aye, I learned to wrap myself against the cold of an encroaching world and the desires of others, while yet offering little gaps and holes through which the mew of you, O true can slip through. Copyright 2022 ©Paul Vincent Cannon All Rights Reserved ®
You must be skilled at this fine balance to do the job you do. Another great priest-poet of history was de Chardin, did you know that?
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Excellent and quite timely Paul. As the issue of boundaries has come front and center for me this year, with multiple intruders
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I hope you’re surviving them Harold, worse than the Vikings or the Mongol army.
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🤣 Indeed. This year I have been both the invader and the defender. I was put in my place quite handily when I crossed the line and quickly realized my own folly and retreated. Harder as the role of defender as one chases me across the internet while another literally beats on my front door. I’ll be quietly sitting behind that bolted door for a while
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Yes, never as easy at it sounds, I find relationships more difficult now than ever, so tricky.
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Too many this past year, but not the real needy, just the in-house moaners.
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Excellent. How to learn is the question.
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Ha, yes indeed!
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Reblogged this on NEW BLOG HERE >> https:/BOOKS.ESLARN-NET.DE.
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Thank you Michael 🙂
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Beautiful, and so true. You are also a wonderful guide through the wrikled pathways of life, Paul! 😉 xx Michael
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Hi praise indeed, thank you for the kind thoughts 🙂
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Reblogged this on The Reluctant Poet.
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Thank you so much for that Chuck, very kind.
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Love it! You say so much with few words.
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Thank you for those uplifting thoughts Patricia, much appreciated.
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I particuarly like the play of language in this one.
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I had such fun with this one, thank you Liz.
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You’re welcome, Paul.
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Love the rhythm of this poem
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Glad you liked it 🙂
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