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A brief meditation on pain

What is it and how do we meet it?

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Whitney McKnight
Jul 10, 2023
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Greetings,

I sustained three head injuries yesterday, each more painful than the one before it. The first two came as I was pruning a maple tree. Those whacks jus…

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