An excerpt from “Mass for the Day of
St. Thomas Didymus”: Gloria
By Denise Levertov

Praise the wet snow
     falling early.
Praise the shadow
     my neighbor’s chimney casts on the tile roof
even this gray October day that should, they say,
have been golden.
                                 Praise
the invisible sun burning beyond
     the white cold sky, ( Read more... )

The Life of Love: WinterCome close to me, oh companion of my full life ( Read more... )

I simply ove this imagery from an article in Hopedance Magazine:

"Well I got it standing on my farm in B.C. a few weeks ago. I was out there with the deafening sound of thousands of frogs fucking in my ponds, earthworms doing it beneath my feet, mason and bumble and honey bees fighting to stuff themselves into every flower in sight and I suddenly ( Read more... )

Zucchini bread. Need I say more?

What else that has begun are the blueberries. We went up north on Saturday (OMG the traffic!) and discovered that the blueberries were already starting to ripen. It's about two weeks early. I spent Sunday morning selectively harvesting a 500 mL container full of the plump, juicy ones. Weather permitting, next weekend ( Read more... )