“Of all man’s works of art, a cathedral is greatest…. A vast and majestic tree is greater than that.” – Henry Ward Beecher The roots have waited, held, retained, until we excavated a new space, mounds of soil removed, allowing ample pathways for the tender shoots to find water and nutrients, and we fewContinue reading “A Simple Act”
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Gathering
This is the power of gathering: it inspires us, delightfully, to be more hopeful, more joyful, more thoughtful: in a word, more alive.—Alice Waters The trudging through a year of a destructive virus and a week living through a historic cold weather event, the separation from illness and ice, the layered-effect straining us past anContinue reading “Gathering”
This Time
We fell into a rhythm of holidays and seasonal change, cool to cold days, gray skies and pearl moon evenings with games, bonfires, and homecoming parades. We gathered and shared food, stories, gifts, fellowship. We reached across the table, held hands when we prayed, pressed in together, cheek to cheek when we arrived andContinue reading “This Time”
Poetic Meanderings 