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  "path": "/2026/03/19/forgiveness/",
  "publishedAt": "2026-03-19T13:47:56.000Z",
  "site": "https://www.themarginalian.org",
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  "textContent": "Shortly after I began the year with some blessings, a friend sent me Lucille Clifton’s spare, splendid poem “blessing the boats.” We had met at a poetry workshop and shared a resolution to write more poetry in the coming year, so we began taking turns each week choosing a line from a favorite poem to use as a joint prompt. (The wonderful thing about minds, about the dazzling variousness of them, is what different things can bloom in them from the same seed.) I had been thinking about forgiveness — about its quiet power to dislodge the lump of blame… read article",
  "title": "What Forgiveness Takes"
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