Quote of the moment

When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

-Wendell Berry: The Peace or the Wild Things

Dec 3, 2008

Thanksgiving Memories

True is in the mind of the interpreter
Reality is each ones own to know
Friends and feelings are few and fleeting
Health can come and go.

The future is an unknown
It may not even exist
The past is the only thing
We can be sure will persist.

Fact of past can be hid
By those it does not please
But the truth of it will not die
As long as hope to the true of heart cleaves.

Other things will come and go
Dreams will often turn into never
Promises may fail through circumstance
But memories are forever.

I will be thankful of
Memories I know to be good
And hope that future events
Will turn as they should.



G - November 2007

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