Make no judgements where you have no compassion.
Make no judgments where you have no compassion
Who tries, does. Who wills, can. Who loves, lives.
[Prayer heals. So say thousands of Americans who use prayer to improve their health. According to a study by Dr. Anne McCaffrey of the Harvard Medical School one third of Americans use prayer to facilitate physical healing. 69 percent of the 2,000 people surveyed said prayer greatly improved their health. Additional studies have linked prayer to positive health outcomes with high blood pressure, asthma, heart attacks, headaches, and anxiety.] It's not a fringe thing, ... I think very mainstream Americans are using prayer in their daily lives.
Grady could write a football story in 15 minutes, and it would be a good one
A real scientist solves problems, not wails that they are unsolvable.
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speak hard, steal the air.
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There's something wrong in not appreciating one's own special abilities, my girl. Find your own limitations, yes, but don't limit yourself with false modesty.
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My nightly craft is winged in white, a dragon of night dark sea.Swift born, dream bound and rudderless, her captain and crew are me.We've sailed a hundred sleeping tides where no seaman's ever beenAnd only my white-winged craft and I know the wonders we have seen.
dragons dreams
The tears I feel todayI'll wait to shed tomorrow.Though I'll not sleep this nightNor find surcease from sorrow.My eyes must keep their sight:I dare not be tear-blinded.I must be free to talkNot choked with grief, clear-minded.My mouth cannot betrayThe anguish that I know.Yes, I'll keep my tears til later:But my grief will never go.
grief
Step by stepMoment by momentWe live throughAnother day
living
Fight only in direst needNot for lust or petty greedHonor those that do give birthRespect them well for their full worth
fighting respect
Harper, treat your words with careFor they may cause joy or despairSing your songs of health and loveOf dragons flaming from above
words
To cry was to release all sorts of ugly little pressures and tensions. Like waking out of a long, dark dream to a sun-filled day.
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Dragon kind was no less cruel than mankind. The Dragon, at least, acted from bestial need rather than bestial greed.~ A thought by Lessa ~
cruel greed
Harper to your word be trueHolder, crafter you also hewTo honesty, integrity, and respectAll others without regard to intellect
honor word
Above us, outlined against the brilliant sky, dragons crowded every available perching space on the Rim. And the sun made a gold of every one of them.
dragons
Mostly I'm telling people that they don't have to be victims.
people
People have freaked out when I tell them that my dragons are scientifically based... what else can you call a genetically engineered life form?
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Writing has been so much a part of my life that I'm really quite annoyed that I can't do as much as I used to.
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I also don't have organized religion on Pern. I figured - since there were four holy wars going on at the time of writing - that religion was one problem Pern didn't need.
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But Ship Who Sang remains my favorite story. I really rocked folks with that and still cannot read it aloud myself without weeping at the end.
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I would recommend the short story form, which is a lot harder to write since you have to be so careful with words, until there is plenty of time to doodle through a novel.
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At age 77, I need the help of someone with more energy than I can now summon to finish a book.
age help
But I will say that living in Ireland has changed the cadence and fullness of speech, since the Irish love words and use as many of them in a sentence as possible.
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