100 things blogging challenge: 14

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Poem: Now and Then, By Sandra Becker
(note: scroll down for poem, it's the last on the page)

I'm a big fan of Buddhist poetry. This one is available in its full form from the Buddhist Poetry Review (well worth exploring). I particularly like the lines:

at the most unlikely moment, Winter Solstice,

the sun’s light furthest away, as if I’d never suffered

a migraine, never made a zillion mistakes,

as if I’d never known the sorrow of an orphaned child,