Steve Sodegard @SSodegard

Writer / Bookworm / Diarist Joined April 2025

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Steve Sodegard @SSodegard

13 hours ago

Are tears spilled in vain, when the fruit is thistles and pain? Shall sorrow be wasted rain, or does it seed the hidden grain? #vss365

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One morning, you may awaken to the truth: decades spent fleeing the world as if it were a shadowed forest. Distractions rise and fall like fleeting phantoms, each briefer than the last, until you find yourself once more at the place you thought you had escaped. And the revelation…

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Steve Sodegard @SSodegard

2 days ago

Compassion is the fiery water That cracks the frozen heart It seeps into the coldest crevices Melting walls built from years of silence And whispers life where none remained #vss365

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Steve Sodegard @SSodegard

3 days ago

As courage is all, Without it must fall The frail threads of man Swept in eternity’s sand Speak, friend—speak. #vss365 #poetrycommunity #poet

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Steve Sodegard @SSodegard

3 days ago

We who in a mystery represent the Cherubim and sing the thrice-holy hymn to the life-giving Trinity, let us now lay aside the cares of this life. Amen. That we may receive the King of All, invisibly escorted by the hosts of angels. Alleluia. youtube.com/watch?v=yg6J65…

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Steve Sodegard @SSodegard

4 days ago

Oh, if only ghosts could be buried.

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Steve Sodegard @SSodegard

4 days ago

What inkpot contains The depths of our soul What feather of gold Can tell of deaths hold In mind that is wounded By spectres of old Could black stain on pale Heal heart dipped in pain? Still I write. #vss365 #poetry #WritingCommunity

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Steve Sodegard @SSodegard

4 weeks ago

Feel blessed that lectures such as these are so readily available online in our day and age. By the great Isaiah Berlin. youtube.com/watch?v=xk2Uet…

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Steve Sodegard @SSodegard

a month ago

O come to me, ye Gods of song Descend upon my heart ere long To tell of tales, from bloomtime hid And blackened veil from life to rid #vss365

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Steve Sodegard @SSodegard

a month ago

"If we knew God was real like 2+2 = 4, there’d be no mystery—and no need for faith. But maybe we need the mystery." #vss365 #WritingCommunity #author

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Steve Sodegard @SSodegard

a month ago

Pa looked out toward the hills and said, “Son, the most precious thing we give isn’t money or words, it’s time. Where you place it, who you share it with, that’s what tells the truth about your heart. Don’t waste it on noise. Give it where love can grow.” #vss365…

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Steve Sodegard @SSodegard

a month ago

“But faith isn’t the absence of doubt. It’s the fire that keeps going even when all the kindling’s wet. You sit with the questions, you pray through them. Some get answered. Most don’t. But the light remains.” He turned to look at me, his eyes tired but kind. “Why do you ask?”…

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Steve Sodegard @SSodegard

a month ago

Studies (A chapter of each) 💫

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Steve Sodegard @SSodegard

a month ago

“The river of life always runs west, son,” Pa told me one evening. “It twists and turns, sure, sometimes calm as a lagoon, sometimes wild as rapids, but it always heads the same way. Out toward the sunset. Out into the ocean of stars.” #vss365 #WritingCommunity

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Steve Sodegard @SSodegard

a month ago

Revisiting a classic tonight!

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Steve Sodegard @SSodegard

a month ago

In summer’s heat, On westward feet, I hope to find in eventide The sun I lost to night behind. The sun I lost in teenage bloom I wish, I hope to meet him soon. For me, the path is long ahead But if I see my sun at tide, I’ll be whole again. #vss365

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Steve Sodegard @SSodegard

a month ago

By ocean's shore, on whitewashed cliff A thought thus came, so soft and swift. The sapphire here—the tears of man— In ceaseless flow, who halt it can? Depart they may, they shall return, For up above there's no concern For tears of men or oceans like— We must go on in…

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Steve Sodegard @SSodegard

a month ago

William i'm not But boy, do I write If only to fight For life one more night #vss365

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Steve Sodegard @SSodegard

a month ago

In dreams I met my childhood self, A boy aglow, so rapturous he— ’Mid fragrant heath and whispering grass, By river’s hush and rustling tree— Oh, it was enough for me. #vss365