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Stjerner – Made of Stars
Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art— Not in lone splendour hung aloft the nightAnd watching, with eternal lids apart, Like nature’s patient, sleepless Eremite,The moving waters at their priestlike task Of pure ablution round earth’s human shores,Or gazing on the new soft-fallen mask Of snow upon the mountains and the moors—No—yet still stedfast, still unchangeable, Pillow’d upon my fair love’s ripening breast,To feel for ever its soft fall and swell, Awake for ever in a sweet unrest,Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath,And so live ever—or else swoon to death. -John Keats Tending to gardens takes care and an investment of time. I’ve been tending two gardens. One is a vegetable, culinary and medicinal…
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At the Closing of the Year
The year comes to an end, and I am in the throes of accounting, integrating, planning and visioning for the coming year. There is a lot I want to do, so much I’ve talked about doing, and needful ceremonies being called for by the community, the powers, and the land in this unprecedented time. Big shifts in energy are happening–it’s been challenging to keep up and keep on an even keel. Maybe it shouldn’t be about balance all the time. Sometimes it might be okay to take the plunge, let the emotions swallow you up for a time, wrestle those who live in the deep watery abodes and emerge wiser,…