Big Boots & Little Bare Feet: November 2006

"If the God you believe in as an idea doesn’t start showing up in what happens to you in your own life, you have as much cause for concern as if the God you don’t believe in as an idea does start showing up. It is absolutely crucial, therefore, to keep in constant touch with what is going on in your own life’s story and to pay close attention to what is going on in the stories of others’ lives. If God is present anywhere, it is in those stories that God is present. If God is not present in those stories, then they are scarcely worth telling." ~ Frederick Buechner

15 November 2006

Utterance

It has been a while since I shared a poem with you, dearest. Here is one I found this morning while riding the subway to work:

"Utterance"

Sitting over words

very late I have heard a kind of whispered sighing

not far

like a night wind in pines or like the sea in the dark

the echo of everything that has ever

been spoken

still spinning its one syllable

between the earth and silence

(W.S. Merwin)

13 November 2006

Moon River

Moon River, wider than a mile,

I'm crossing you in style some day.

Old dream maker, you heart breaker,

Wherever you're going, I'm going your way.

Two drifters, off to see the world --

There's such a lot of world to see.

We're after the same rainbow's end,

Waiting round the bend,

My huckleberry friend,

Moon River -- and me

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