spring beauties
“In our time of disturbance and radical change, we are crossing a threshold, a portal, or an unseen bridge from one world to another. It could be said that the bridge is either collapsing beneath us, or being made as we walk together, in the long twilight hours when one civilization gives way to another.” -Geneen Marie Haugen
fiddleheads
“My heart is moved by all I cannot save:
so much has been destroyed
I have cast my lot with those
who age after age, perversely,
with no extraordinary power,
reconstitute the world.”
-Adrienne Rich
baby lettuces in the hoop house
“If you think you are too small to make a difference try sleeping with a mosquito.” -Dalai Lama
“Start acting like you are a member of a compassionate majority up against a desperate, fearful and shrinking majority. Because you are.” -Ethan Nichtern
“Do not be dismayed by the brokenness of the world. All things break. And all things can be mended. Not with time, as they say, but with intention. So go. Love intentionally, extravagantly, unconditionally. The broken world waits in the darkness for the light that is you.” -L. R. Knost
Dearest friends, I think I wrote this post more for me than for you. :-) This is a collection of words that pull me back to center when I feel like I am spinning out of control. Perhaps they will help you, too, as we sit in the midst of a maelstrom here in America. (I cannot even seem to type “United States of America” because for me, it no longer feels true.)
And I leave you with Corita Kent…”Doing and making are acts of hope.”
Let us pick up needles this weekend, and spades and hoes and spatulas and pens and paintbrushes and wrenches and hammers and clay and looms and…find some sanctuary from all that distracts us. And be HOPEFUL.
And keep on shining your light.
xoxoxoxoxox