Author Archives: Hope

Jubilant July 2024 Almanac In Summer Oh, summer has clothed the earthIn a cloak from the loom of the sun!And a mantle, too, of the skies’ soft blue,And a belt where the rivers run.And now for the kiss of the … Continue reading →

Juicy June Almanac The Sleeper By Edgar Alan Poe At midnight, in the month of June,
 I stand beneath the mystic moon.
 An opiate vapor, dewy, dim,
 Exhales from out her golden rim,
 And, softly dripping, drop by drop,
 Upon … Continue reading →

Meaningful May 2024 Almanac May has come in, young May the beautiful, weaving the sweetest chaplet of the year. Along the eastern corridors, she walks. What time the clover rocks the earliest bee. Her feet are flush with sunrise, and … Continue reading →

Appealing April Almanac The Spring season that is taking shape all about us, that will surprise us every day to come, is the product of a winter’s long night.  It’s the outworking of our hopes and dreams.  For who among … Continue reading →

Majestic March 2024 Almanac Hope is … an orientation of the spirit, an orientation of the heart; it transcends the world that is immediately experienced, and is anchored somewhere beyond its horizons. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is … Continue reading →

Fruitful February 2024 Almanac Dear Friends, Spring is coming.  Though it’s yet mid-winter, Earth is waking from her winter somnolence and quickening the ever-ready forces of Nature.  Daylight, which bottomed out just six weeks ago at the Winter Solstice, is … Continue reading →

January 2024 Almanac, Year in Review Keep some room in your heart for the Unimaginable  —Mary Oliver Dear friends, It’s winter, and night outpaces the day.  Winter is a season of stillness, dormancy, and hibernation, the life force retreating within … Continue reading →

Dreaming December Almanac It isn’t more light we need.  It’s putting into practice what light we already have.  When we do that, wonderful things will happen within our lives and within our world.  –Peace Pilgrim Dear friends, The Winter Solstice … Continue reading →

Nurturing November Almanac The true life of the bowl began the moment it was dropped. –Ancient Kintsugi quote We’re halfway to the Winter Solstice and all is going to ground, temperatures sinking, darkness pressing, daylight draining as the sun’s stipend of … Continue reading →

Opportune October Almanac It’s as if we’re always preparingfor something.  The endless roll of the earthripening us.             From Late August, by Mary Chivers We are entering October—a time of harvest which brings the last year’s cycle to a close.  … Continue reading →