Lost – Feb. 13, 2023
Stand still. The trees ahead and bushes beside youAre not lost. Wherever you are is called Here,And you must treat it as a powerful stranger,Must ask permission to know it and be known.The forest breathes. Listen. It answers,I have made this place around you.If you leave it, you may come back again, saying Here.No two trees are the same […]
Down by the End of Deep Forest Road
On the steeps where greed and ignorance cut down an old forest, an old forest will stand. –Wendell Berry, “Work Song – 2.Vision” Storyteller and mythologist Michael Meade reminds us of an old proverb that says: adversity reveals genius; prosperity conceals it. Something deep in the soul responds to dark times. But what a challenge it […]
Sleeping in the Forest – Feb. 8, 2019
Sleeping in the Forest I thought the earth remembered me,she took me back so tenderly,arranging her dark skirts, her pocketsfull of lichens and seeds.I slept as never before, a stone on the river bed,nothing between me and the white fire of the starsbut my thoughts, and they floated light as mothsamong the branches of the […]
