Thursday, November 24, 2005

A Dream of Trees I spent a long time looking for something to read, a blessing, if you will, for our Thanksgiving dinner today.  I'm an atheist who can tolerate, even embrace, references to the divine;  any reference to God might make the H squirm.  So anything too overt in giving thanks to specific Lord was out.  And I had a harder time than I expected to, finding something that seemed right not just for any Thanksgiving, but for this one in particular, when the world feels so troubled, so dangerously wobbling on its axis.  Then I found this, and a whole world, this poet's, opened up to me.  Enough to make me want to believe. Happy Thanksgiving. 7:47:23 PM     comment [] trackback []