Thirty-Nine Is Often Full of Wonder

July 30, 2020

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is service, in honor of Eid al-Adha, the Islamic Festival of Sacrifice, which this year is celebrated on July 31.

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A number poem about a surgeon who has found a purpose for her life in healing others:

Thirty-nine is often full of wonder,

Having found a purpose for her life.

If some prefer the surface, others dive,

Reaching for a reason they're alive,

The meaning that might moor a man and wife,

Yearning that sustains them deep down under.

Nor is her life a palace she might plunder,

In which the stone-faced, dancing idols thrive.

Nothing will her will from her heart sunder,

Even as she wields her healing knife.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Service

July 27: Let There Be Joy, Always Joy in Giving

July 28: Alain Is an Absolute Delight

July 29: Nine-Year-Olds Have Dreams That Dance and Sing

July 30: Thirty-Nine Is Often Full of Wonder