Plotting Resurrection – Sept. 30, 2022
“E.B. White watched his wife Katharine planning the planting of bulbs in her garden in the last autumn of her life and later wrote about it: “There was something comical yet touching in her bedraggled appearance… The small hunched-over figure, her studied absorption in the implausible notion that there would be yet another spring, oblivious […]
Waken in Me a Sense of Joy – Oct. 13, 2020
O extravagant God,in this ripening, red-tinged autumn,waken in me a sense of joyin just being alive,joy for nothing in generalexcept everything in particular;joy in sun and rainmating with earth to birth a harvest;joy in soft lightthrough shyly disrobing trees;joy in acolyte moonsetting halos around processing clouds;joy in the beating of a thousand wingsmysteriously knowing which […]
Joy
It is October and my heart is suddenly enflamed with the simple joy of change. The leaves of the trees are crisper and now beginning to rustle in the breezes. Some leaves have already let go and are brightening the landscape with spots of red and gold. Firewood, apple cider, cinnamon whisks, and pumpkins appear […]
