1. Rites of Spring
2. A backup air mattress after one broke
3. Seeing old friends
4. Helping to put the recycling away
5. Dishwashers
6. Bug spray
7. Hugs
8. Chatting
9. Brannen Campbell
10. Laughter
11. Bird songs
12. Ice on a sore knew
13. Doing this for almost 4 years.
1. Reading
2. Doing real work with throwing firewood
3. Beer
4. Bourbon
5. Pork loin
6. Pajamas
7. Jane Sibley
8. A good blanket
9. Sharing
10. Biscuits and gravy.
1. Rites of Spring
2. Fire Grove
3. Community
4. Showers
5. Bad Sons Brewery
6. Black Hog Brewing
7. Working for a better world
8. The Ticket to Ride app
9. Being disconnected from the Internet completely
10. Listening
11. The book Basketball: A Love Story
12. The Golden State Warriors.
1. Being on the mountain
2. Seeing old friends
3. Packing and unpacking the car
4. Village Builders tomorrow
5. Rites of Spring
6. Seeing a toad on the road
7. Reading
8. Madness by Marya Hornbacher
9. Bourbon
10. Toasts
11. New adventures.
One of the most beloved poets in the world is Mary Oliver. Often her stuff is more gentle and speaks about things like nature. In this poem “Of the Empire” from her collection “Red Bird” (2008) she talks about the greed of our current era. In a way only she can.
Of the Empire
by Mary Oliver
We will be known as a culture that feared death
and adored power, that tried to vanquish insecurity
for the few and cared little for the penury of the
many. We will be known as a culture that taught
and rewarded the amassing of things, that spoke
little if at all about the quality of life for
people (other people), for dogs, for rivers. All
the world, in our eyes, they will say, was a
commodity. And they will say that this structure
was held together politically, which it was, and
they will say also that our politics was no more
than an apparatus to accommodate the feelings of
the heart, and that the heart, in those days,
was small, and hard, and full of meanness.
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