Go to the winter woods: listen there; look, watch, and ‘the dead months’ will give you a subtler secret than any you have yet found
The Dead Months
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Author: mmwm
Thanksgiving Walk in the Woods
I’m in Middlebury, Vermont, walking/hiking the Trail Around Middlebury, an 18-mile or longer) trail that makes a sort of circuit around the little college town
Forget Your Perfect Offering #2: Weeds
“We haven’t a clue as to what counts in the secret landscape behind the landscape we look at here.” — Charles Wright Weeds without love. Torn
Ring the Bells That Still Can Ring
“Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack in everything That’s how the light gets in.” — Leonard
Resiliency: Mosses
Moss grows where nothing else can grow. It grows on bricks. It grows on tree bark and roofing slate. It grows in the Arctic Circle
A Place of Correspondence: Odiorne Point (Rye, NH)
“There is no mystery in this association of woods and otherworlds, for as anyone who has walked the woods knows, they are places of correspondence,