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\u201cLove in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams. Love in dreams is greedy for immediate action, rapidly performed and in the sight of all. Men will even give their lives if only the ordeal does not last long but is soon over, with all looking on and applauding as though on the stage. But active love is labor and fortitude, and for some people too, perhaps, a complete science.\u201d
Fyodor Dostoevsky,<\/strong> The Brothers Karamazov<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

I want the current administration to explode in a blaze of glory, and i want to be the one to light the fuse. But my hands bring me back to the patient work of making myself an act of love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cLove in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams. Love in dreams is greedy for immediate action, rapidly performed and in the sight of all. Men will even give their lives if only the ordeal does not last long but is soon over, with all looking on and applauding as … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paor1p-5i","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":290,"url":"https:\/\/ryk.groetchen.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/26\/knowing-they-are-needed\/","url_meta":{"origin":328,"position":0},"title":"Poem: Knowing They Are Needed","author":"Ryk Groetchen","date":"May 26, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"KNOWING THEY ARE NEEDED Organizers can go to bed early,\u2028and wake up refreshed.\u2028Fire tenders, blind to time, tend to stay upall night, crafting, restless. 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