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We Are Transmitters by D.H. Lawrence

As we live,

we are transmitters of life.

And, when we fail to transmit life,

Life fails to flow through us.

And, if as we work, we can transmit life

into our work,

Life, still more life, rushes into us

to compensate, to be ready

and we ripple with life through the days.

Even if it is a woman making an apple dumpling,

or a man a stool,

if Life goes into the pudding,

good is the pudding, good is the stool,

content is the woman, with fresh life rippling into her,

content is the man.

AGive, and it shall be given unto you@

is still the truth about Life.

But giving life is not so easy.

It doesn=t mean handing it out to some mean fool,

or letting the living dead eat you up.

It means kindling the life-quality where it was not,

even if it=s only in the whiteness

of a washed pocket handkerchief.

                                               . . . D.H. Lawrence

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