On, In, and Around Mondays

harvesting greens from the hoop house


gathering wood and hoping to stay warm!

P.S. Please remember to VOTE in support of Amazing Heart Farm's project for the Intelligent Use of Water Award!

The Unforseen Wilderness

"And the world cannot be discovered by a journey of miles, no matter how long, but only by a spiritual journey, a journey of one inch, very arduous and humbling and joyful, by which we arrive at the ground at our feet, and learn to be home."
-Wendell Berry

The Seer

"The boundlessly visible includes but also excludes man. He sees, and he sees that he is being continually abandoned. Appearances belong to the boundless space of the visible. With his inner eye man experiences the space of his own imagination and reflection. Normally it is within the protection of this inner space that he places, retains, cultivates, lets run wild or constructs meaning.

At the moment of revelation when appearance and meaning become identical, the space of physics and the seer's inner space coincide: momentarily and exceptionally the seer achieves an equality with the visible. To lose all sense of exclusion; to be at the center..."

John Berger

hidden in secret places I find-

I will give you the

treasures of darkness

and riches hidden in secret places.
Book of Isaiah 45:3

#34

"finding Home"

#23

#18

"Hawk Feather"

(He wishes for the cloths of Heaven)

Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,

Enwrought with golden and silver light,

The blue and the dim and the dark cloths

Of night and light and half-light,

I would spread the cloths under your feet:

But I, being poor, have only my dreams;

I have spread my dreams under your feet;

Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

--W. B. Yeats

#13

"Shadow and light"

#11

#5

"...To crave and to have are as like as a thing and its shadow. . . .For to wish for a hand on one's hair is all but to feel it. So whatever we may lose, very craving gives it back to us again. Through we dream and hardly know it, longing, like an angel, fosters us, smooths our hair, and brings us wild strawberries."

-Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping

#4

shifting

"I feel that strong emotion must leave its trace;

and it is only a question of discovering how we

can get ourselves again attached to it, so we shall

be able to live our lives through from the start."

-Virginia Woolf, A Sketch of the Past

#1

"...On one side is radiance; on another is the abyss..."

-M. Oliver, Long Life