Everyone comes into the world with a job to do

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Fireflies at Ochanomizu (circa 1880) Kobayashi Kiyochika (Japanese, 1847-1915)

Everyone comes into the world with a job to do—

I don’t mean working for a company, a corporation—

we were all given gifts to share, even the animals,

even the plants, minerals, clouds

. . . all beings.

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Fireflies at Ochanomizu (circa 1880) Kobayashi Kiyochika (Japanese, 1847-1915)

From ‘Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings’ by Native American Poet Laureate Joy Harjo

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