"The day can't be more beautiful. The skies are blue all the way to the heavens...And the bracingly cold air reminds me with each new breath of my continuing existence as a living creature on this planet. "
-Dead By Dawn, A Mike Bowditch novel by Paul Doiron, p. 405, Lg type
"...Put your faith in the two inches of humus
that will build under the trees
every thousand years...
Practice resurrection."
- from Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front by Wendell Berry
“... I take what is:
The light beats on the stones,
the wind over water shines
Like long grass through the trees...”
- from “The Words” by David Wagoner (1926-2021)
Yesterday evening's Bitterroot River ramble conjured fond thoughts of Ratty and Mole.
"Then they got out their boat from the boat-house, sculled down the river home, and at a very late hour sat down to supper in their own cosy riverside parlour, to the Rat's great joy and contentment." - The Wind in the Willows, Ch 2,
by Kenneth Grahame (1859-1932)
"People who think it’s so hard to find a needle in a haystack are probably not quilters. Needles find you. Just walk on the haystack for a second. You’ll find the needle." -Jenny Lawson in Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things
"May the road rise up to meet you.
May the wind be always at your back.
May the sun shine warm upon your face,
the rains fall soft upon your fields and until we meet again,
may God hold you in the palm of His hand." - Traditional Irish blessing
