The First Noel the Angel Did Say – Dec. 29, 2022
The first Noel the angel did say,Was to certain poor shepherds in fields as they lay;In fields where they lay keeping their sheep,On a cold winter’s night that was so deep. … They looked up and saw a starShining in the east, beyond them far,And to the earth it gave great light,And so it continued […]
Open It Wide – Apr. 19, 2021
Enclosing the field within boundssets it apart from the boundlessof which it was, and is, a part,and places it within care.The bounds of the field bindthe mind to it. A brideadorned, the field now wearsthe green veil of a season’sabounding. Open the gate!Open it wide, that timeand hunger may come in. –Wendell Berry, Sabbaths, “IX” […]
Good Soil
I remember driving through the countryside in Ireland (oh, to travel to beautiful faraway places again…) and seeing field after field of tilled earth. The rich black soil was studded by white and gray stones, but the biggest rocks had been rolled to the edges and formed into fences and barriers, neatly demarcating the squares. […]
