A beautiful song….for a brand new day. Amazing Celia Cruz, sings it her own way:
I have a white rose to tend In July as in January - Cultivo una rosa blanca, En julio como en enero - Jose Marti
A Purification
by Wendell Berry
At start of spring I open a trench
in the ground. I put into it
the winter’s accumulation of paper,
pages I do not want to read
again, useless words, fragments,
errors. And I put into it
the contents of the outhouse:
light of the sun, growth of the ground,
finished with one of their journeys.
To the sky, to the wind, then,
and to the faithful trees, I confess
my sins: that I have not been happy
enough, considering my good luck;
have listened to too much noise;
have been inattentive to wonders;
have lusted after praise.
And then upon the gathered refuse
of mind and body, I close the trench,
folding shut again the dark,
the deathless earth. Beneath that seal
the old escapes into the new.
Have Peace – Veronica
The poetry and work of the peace garden continues.
@atpeacegarden
The Peace Garden Movie shows a bit about some of our projects so far...enjoy!
Was this so long ago? Happiness = always possible. To me, this is what Obama taught.
May charity and nonviolence govern how we treat each other as individuals, within society and in international life.
– Pope Francis, World Day of Peace 2017
Drawing by Augustine (age 7), Kenya
