{"id":3560,"date":"2005-01-22T16:52:50","date_gmt":"2005-01-22T20:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/formerlyknownas\/2005\/01\/22\/suddenly-winter\/"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:58:02","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:58:02","slug":"suddenly-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2005\/01\/22\/suddenly-winter\/","title":{"rendered":"suddenly winter"},"content":{"rendered":"

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one rock for my garden–
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so suddenly winter
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Carolyn Hall<\/STRONG><\/FONT><\/A> <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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credits: “so suddenly winter”  The Heron’s Nest<\/A><\/EM><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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“one rock for my garden–” <\/FONT>The Heron’s Nest<\/FONT><\/EM><\/A><\/DIV>
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 “rumble of thunder” — <\/EM><\/FONT><\/FONT>The Heron’s Nest<\/FONT><\/EM><\/A> (Jan. 2005)<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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waiting out<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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\"god'spolitics\"  Jim Wallis of <\/FONT>Sojourners Magazine<\/FONT><\/EM><\/A> was on the <\/FONT>Charlie Rose show<\/FONT><\/A> last night (Jan. 21, 2005), <\/FONT>
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public life. Wallis argues that America’s separation of church and state does not <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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We’ve voiced such sentiments <\/FONT>here<\/FONT><\/A>, <\/FONT>there<\/FONT><\/A> and elsewhere.  Democrats cannot wait until the next <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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presidential campaign to let the American people know that the vast majority of us hold moral and <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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ethical views that fit squarely within our national consensus on values — and<\/EM> that differences on <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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how those values should be applied in particular instances should not “excommunicate” anyone <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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institutions of their birth, and many feel intellectually superior to believers.  We need to get over both <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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of these obstacles to recognizing and acknowledging the values we share<\/EM> with American believers, <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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a monopoly on morality nor on solutions to America’s social and political problems.<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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    rumble of thundera street jugglerlights his torches     one rock for my garden–a thousand antsrescuing eggs       so suddenly winterthe colors in her pill box   Carolyn Hall credits: “so suddenly winter”  The Heron’s Nest “one rock for my garden–” The Heron’s Nest  “rumble of thunder” — The Heron’s Nest (Jan. 2005)   […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2926],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pre-06-2006"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6kP1R-Vq","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3560"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13404,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3560\/revisions\/13404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}