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Listening for Lions

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Gloria Whelan
Gloria Whelan

Gloria Whelan, born on November 23, 1923, is a renowned poet whose works are celebrated for their profound emotions and rich imagination. more

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“Perhaps human beings are incapable of living without experiencing the blue-tinged taste of loss, failure, and regret. If incidents of remorse, shame, and guilt are unavoidable, perhaps the most we can hope for is to suffer from the type of regrets that hurt least. Sydney Smith (1771-1845), an English wit, writer and Anglican cleric said, ‘Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.”