If this be the world
If this be the world, let us continue
as we are today-clean pants
and green sweaters, the river pounding
below us, buttery light coming
through tall windows onto worn
wooden floors. If the truth
cannot be known,
if this be the world, let it go
on.  Where leaves have fallen,
let them fall again.
(c) 2005

I dream that I am a cabbage.
I find an unloved piece of land
and I begin to plant:
two rows of cabbages, and then
I fill the woolen earth with more
seeds.  Carrots, potatoes, squash, wheat.
They grow taller, I tend them gently, at night
I sleep in a bed of soft leaves.
When they are ready, my little cabbages gather their ...
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This week, I’m grateful for

our first nature table – welcome Autumn!

awesome new window crayons from Stockmar – so fun!
the gorgeous weather, the vibrant leaves, the corn harvest almost ready to come in, a dinner of delicata squash, apples, and kale . . . and on and on.
Have a lovely weekend everyone.