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Silence Can Feel Like Praise

Published: July 18, 2007
Categories: Photos, Poetry

I’ve gone to the fields to run barefoot through grass and pick daisies, to sing and be silent.

Where will you run off to this summer day?

-Christine Valters Paintner @ Abbey of the Arts

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