Category Archives: Inspirations

“We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time, in which the so-called present moment is felt as nothing but an infinitesimal hairline between an all-powerfully causative past and an absorbingly important future. We have no present. Our consciousness is almost completely preoccupied with memory and expectation. We do not realizeContinue reading “Monday’s Muse”

Let Us Go Then ~ Ciaran Carson through the trip wired minefield hand in hand eyes for nothing but ourselves alone undaunted by the traps & pits of wasted land until you stoop & pluck a stem of eyebright

BE HERE NOW ~ george harrison Remember, now, be here nowAs it’s not like it was beforeThe past, was, be here nowAs it’s not what it was before – it was Why try to live a lifeThat isn’t realNo howA mind, that wants to wander‘Round a cornerIs an unwise mind Now, is, be here nowAndContinue reading “Muse for Monday”

Peace is supposed, imagined, divined, dreamed. Peace’s language, its sounds and rhythms, when read aloud, when read silently, should pacify breath and tongue, make ears and brain be tranquil. The images of peace are ephemeral, The language of peace is subtle. The reasons for peace, the definitions of peace, the very idea of peace haveContinue reading “Monday’s Muse”

Precipice BY JILL ALEXANDER ESSBAUM The borderof a thing. Its edgeor hem. The selvage,the skirt, a perimeter’strim. The blowof daylight’s end andnighttime’s beginning.A fence or a rim,a margin, a fringe.And this: the grim,stingy doorstepwhere the lapseof passage happens.That slim lip of land,the liminal vergethat slips you pastyour brink. Whereand when youblink.

Apple Blossoms BY SUSAN KELLY-DEWITT One evening in winterwhen nothing has been enough,when the days are too short, the nights too longand cheerless, the secretand docile buds of the apple blossoms begin their quickascent to light. Nightafter interminable night the sugars pucker and swellinto green slips, greensilks. And just as you find yourself at the endofContinue reading “Muse for a Monday”

May ~ Christina Rossetti I cannot tell you how it was,But this I know: it came to passUpon a bright and sunny dayWhen May was young; ah, pleasant May!As yet the poppies were not bornBetween the blades of tender corn;The last egg had not hatched as yet,Nor any bird foregone its mate. I cannot tellContinue reading “Monday’s Musings”

Farming While Black: African Diasporic Wisdom for Farming and Food Justice ~ Leah Penniman (Co-director and Farm Manager of Soul Fire Farm, Grafton, NY), Keynote Speaker for 2020 Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association, Common Ground Country Fair It’s no surprise that industrial agriculture is a leading driver of climate change, water withdrawals, water pollution,Continue reading “Monday’s Muse”

“Cultivation is the shallow stirring of the surface soil in order to cut off small weeds and prevent the appearance of new ones. Weeding takes place after the weeds are already established. Cultivation deals with weeds before they become a problem. Weeding deals with the problem after it has occurred. When weeds are allowed toContinue reading “Monday’s Muse”