Kentucky?

Hey dear folks,

   just a short note to let y'all know that I might be headin' back east next year...?  Not sure yet, but I'm interested in a position in little ol' Berea.  I'm also interested in an outdoor ed gig in Ohio, and another in Arcata... and another year or so of L'Arche?... It reminded me of working in the garden yesterday, transplanting little lettuce plants out of a tire that was too full to a patch we tilled up near the fence.  In pondering this, my prayer for the day is such:

 

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Dear heart,

   Please before you prune out the little starts, the tiny sprouts, the baby seedlings, all reaching for the sun, all competing for the limited resource of your life... please before spacing out your garden--take stock that there is a great deal blooming here.  There is.  So on this day when it is too soon to decide which plants to water, let it all bloom. 

 

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...and tomorrow I go one day farther in the sorting out of my seedlings with a phone interview for the Energy Empowerment in Appalachia position at Berea.  So, goodnight to y'all. 

 

grateful list:

-more than one opportunity to choose from

-gardens

-my seester, Missy Suzanne

-the funny messages on my answering machine telling me to move back to Berea "for the Saturday night jam sessions"

-lettuce plants

-midnight phone calls across time zones to wake up a friend and say "Hey, I might take this job...and it scares me!"

-the return of sun this spring

-bike ridin'

-clean water to drink

-photography, writing, and music all things that aim to capture something beyond themselves

-this one wild life!