Away from the harvest the seasons have turned. The nights have grown colder and fires we’ve burn. The stars in the heavens look down where we stand. Neighbors and friends with candles in hand. Warmth is returning, the sun and the light will brighten our days and shorten our nights. Come gather around the […]
“To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the times comes to let it go, to let it go.” – Mary Oliver The phrase “letting go” has roots in Old […]
“Wild Geese” by Mary Oliver You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. […]
Buildings, like their people, worn by war and long winters. A city of contrasts. These are a people who, in just the past year, have risen up and overthrown a government of extreme corruption and violence. People who, in this lifetime, have survived starvation and genocide by Russian forces – even mass killing by their […]
The rugged old Norsemen spoke of death as Heimgang-“home-going.” So the snow-flowers go home when they melt and flow to the sea, and the rock-ferns, after unrolling their fronds to the light and beautifying the rocks, roll them up close again in the autumn and blend with the soil. Myriads of rejoicing living creatures, daily, […]
