Risky learning

Risky learning

I stepped from Plank to Plank, A slow and cautious way. The Stars about my head I felt, About my Feet the Sea.  I knew not but the next Would be my final inch – This gave me that precarious Gait Some call Experience.   Emily Dickinson...
We grow accustomed to the dark

We grow accustomed to the dark

When light is put away – As when the Neighbor holds the Lamp To witness her Goodbye – A Moment – We uncertain step For newness of the night – Then – fit our Vision to the Dark – And meet the Road – erect – And so of...
Get a glory

Get a glory

Oh you gotta get a glory! In the work you do, A Hallelujah chorus In the heart of you. Paint or tell a story, Sing or shovel coal,                                                                                                       But you gotta get a glory Or the...
The world’s danger

The world’s danger

I saw a stable low and very bare, A little child in a manger. The oxen knew him, had him in their care. To men he was a stranger. The safety of the world was lying there And the world’s danger.    Mary Elizabeth Coleridge...

Praying for Lucy

Come down, O Christ, and help me! Reach thy hand, For I am drowning in a stormier sea Than Simon on thy Lake of Galilee: The wine of life is spilt upon the sand, Me heart is in some famine-murdered land Whence all good things have perished utterly, And well I know my...