Praying with Fringes 04/06/2017 – your hands grow more able to touch the dusky earth

when you become the rain Martha Courtot when you become the rain things get easier your hands grow more able to touch the dusky earth of course           your name changes you choose           you insist on your choice you move across the day and light follows having transformed            dissolved alchemized you have said good-bye to … Continue reading Praying with Fringes 04/06/2017 – your hands grow more able to touch the dusky earth

Praying with Fringes 11/02/2015 – sit and be still

Sabbaths 2001, VI Wendell Berry Sit and be still until in the time of no rain you hear beneath the dry wind's commotion in the trees the sound of flowing water among the rocks, a stream unheard before, and you are where breathing is prayer.