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The Poetry Box
It was a sunny Tuesday afternoon. I was practically giddy with excitement, having successfully installed my new, hand-crafted poetry box* in front of our house near Asheville, North Carolina. In the same way…
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The Farmer’s Market
“The single greatest lesson the garden teaches is that our relationship to the planet need not be zero-sum, and that as long as the sun still shines and people still can plan and…
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Voices of the Rain
“Water sustains all life. Her songs begin in the tiniest of raindrops, transform to flowing rivers, travel to majestic oceans and thundering clouds and back to earth again. When water is threatened, all…
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More Meadow Moods
“To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter… to be thrilled by the stars at night;…
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When the Sap Runs
“A sap run is the sweet goodbye of winter. It is the fruit of the equal marriage of the sun and frost.” John Burroughs
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Winter’s Small Splendors
“Walk through the garden’s dormant splendor. Say only, thank you. Thank you. Ross Gay, from his poem, “Thank You”
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Save or Savor
“I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.” E.B. White
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How to Catch a Falling Leaf
“We try to catch a dancing leaf, for every leaf caught is a ‘happy day’, but how elusive they are, these fluttering alive things, which slip through the fingers and evade pursuit!” Alison…
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What’s Missing?
“I think I could turn and live awhile with the animals . . .they are so placid and self-contained. I stand and look at them sometimes half the day long.” Walt Whitman
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“Eating Light”
“People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.” Iris Murdoch
