Author Archives: Hope
Open-hearted October
Open-hearted October Almanac I don’t know about you, but every year around this time, I start to feel a little … contracted. I pull my jacket a little closer around my neck and dig out my scarf from the coat … Continue reading
Serendipitous September
Caleb gives us up-to-the-minute news from the Garden while Lucas waters a row of carrots. Carrots are finicky, he says, so maybe Lucas is offering some prayers while he waters. Serendipitous September 2024 Almanac In the latest Common Ground Ecovillage … Continue reading
Auspicious August Almanac
Photo by Kai Auspicious August 2024 Almanac Pickles, the barn frog, knows how to stay cool in the summer. She’s a smart cookie, hanging out in the shower. May we all be so smart, because, as we know, summers aren’t … Continue reading
Jubilant July 2024 Almanac
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 2024
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
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
The April Almanac Has A New Design!
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
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 Almanc
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
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