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1986-03-05

Wednesday, March 5th, 1986 
                 
                 35,000 ft, my thoughts like swirling birds.
                 Joan and her spiritualism are focusing me hard.
                 No casual affair; her effect on me.
                 No face passing in a moment of light or lust
                 but a catalyst and an unleashing in me...
                 realizations and recognitions
                 pass like crossing swords where she is.
                 It's not that I should grasp at her
                 or resist her here
                 but that I should let her simply play out
                 her part unburdened
                 and learn from all that she evokes in me
                 or gives to me
                 or takes from me.
                 She brings me my own.
                 My own possessiveness and insecurity,
                 my own needs and fears.
                 She reveals me to myself,
                 so quickly has she cut me open.
                                    gallagher
                                    5 mar 86

— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —

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1986-03-10

Monday, March 10th, 1986 


               Like a tear in the sky
               that lets heaven come shining through
               I opened up today
               and nothing could hide the flame I felt.

               Deep joy burning my heart down.
               I went for a run, music in my ears,
               God's creation in my eyes
               and a deep feeling filling me
               that I was tapped into something deeper
               than the everyday shows.

               Sometimes, like a lens, I just come focused.
               Like a crystal, when the light comes on through,
               I am for a moment showered with grace and clarity.
               Full of the conjunction of my will
               and my life and God's purpose.

               As if all the warm hands of love and meaning
               have come at once to press me
               and I to feel through them
               the fabric of life.

                                       gallagher
                                       10 Mar 86

— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —

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1986-03-21 Chris birthday meditations

Friday, March 21st, 1986 

                       Chris’ birthday meditations
                  You have to give the things you want.
                  If you give dishonesty and deceit
                  then expect it.
                  Give what you want,
                  be what you want.
                  If you are tempted to transgress
                  your own spiritual convictions
                  and you think, ‘just this once’
                  then you risk much.
                  And with each repetition
                  the danger grows more grave.
                  For, as your habit grows,
                  your belief in yourself
                  as a growing spiritual being
                  diminishes.
                                    gallagher
                                    3/21/86
                  – written in SJC on Swallow’s day weekend
                  when I stayed over for Chris’ birthday.

— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —

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