{"id":83054,"date":"2016-11-21T12:00:04","date_gmt":"2016-11-21T12:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=83054"},"modified":"2016-12-22T12:20:48","modified_gmt":"2016-12-22T12:20:48","slug":"give-praise-whenever-you-can","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2016\/11\/give-praise-whenever-you-can\/","title":{"rendered":"Give Praise Whenever You Can"},"content":{"rendered":"

Give praise whenever you can.\u00a0 Praise:<\/em>
\nSunrise on snow-capped mountains;
\nSunsets on marigold fields.\u00a0 Praise:<\/em>
\nEvery act of kindness and solicitude;
\nChildren smiling in beneficence.\u00a0 Praise:<\/em>
\nThe hard-earned wisdom of the old;
\nEvery great artist who ever lived;
\nThe almost-great who failed to fulfill their hopes.\u00a0 Praise:<\/em>
\nThe color green, amber, bees making honey;
\nThe scent of cedar, calico kittens.\u00a0 Praise:<\/em>
\nSnow-leopards, eagles, redwoods, ocean-spray;
\nPrairies, wind-songs, flotillas of clouds.\u00a0 Praise:<\/em>
\nWhat is lost, but etched in living hearts;
\nFidelity to the best causes.\u00a0 Praise:<\/em>
\nHorses, the fleet-footed, the patience of turtles. Praise:<\/em>
\nThe little planet, orbiting its sun;
\nThe little sun, spinning in its galaxy;
\nThe solar system of the atom.\u00a0 Praise:<\/em>
\nCathedrals of memories;
\nThe wine of young love, the incense of old love;
\nMiracles, harmony, wildness, and peace.\u00a0 Praise:<\/em>
\nThe durable and perdurable;
\nThe fruition of dreams, pride in one\u2019s work;
\nWisdom in its multitude of forms.\u00a0 Praise:<\/em>
\nBirds, flight, hazel eyes, blue eyes, all eyes.\u00a0 Praise:<\/em>
\nSpeech, truth, dialogue, music, discernment.\u00a0 Praise:<\/em>
\nMercy, charity, health, beauty-always-changing.\u00a0 Praise:<\/em>
\nThe learning-teaching interaction;
\nWherewithal, self-reliance, community.\u00a0 Praise:<\/em>
\n\u201cA local habitation and a name.\u201d\u00a0 Praise:<\/em>
\nThe ethereal, the mystical, the mundane.\u00a0 Praise:<\/em>
\nEnoughness, the courage to know enoughness.\u00a0 Praise:<\/em>
\nThose who help and those who acknowledge;
\nThose who are weary who were trailblazers.\u00a0 Praise:<\/em>
\nThose who are young, building worthy achievements.\u00a0 Praise:<\/em>
\nA good deed, \u201ca word fitly spoken.\u201d\u00a0 Praise:<\/em>
\nA welcoming smile, a nod of approval.\u00a0 Praise:<\/em>
\nWhenever you can; each day–someone, something.
\nPraise!<\/em>
\n_________________________________________<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Gary Corseri is a m<\/em>ember of the TRANSCEND Network for Peace, Development and Environment.<\/a> He has published and posted articles, fiction and poems at hundreds of venues, including,<\/em> TMS (Transcend Media Service<\/a>)<\/a>, The New York Times, Village Voice, Redbook Magazine and<\/em> Counterpunch.\u00a0 He has published 2 novels and 2 collections of poetry, and his dramas have been produced on<\/em> PBS-Atlanta and elsewhere.\u00a0 He has performed his poems at the Carter Presidential Library and Museum and has taught in universities in the US and Japan, and in US public schools and prisons.\u00a0 Contact: Gary_Corseri@comcast.net<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Give praise whenever you can. Praise:
\nSunrise on snow-capped mountains;
\nSunsets on marigold fields. Praise:
\nEvery act of kindness and solicitude;
\nChildren smiling in beneficence. Praise:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry-format"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83054\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}