Trees Are Grateful, as Are Squash and Squirrels

November 25, 2018

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Thanksgiving, which was celebrated on November 22^nd.

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A Thanksgiving poem about gratitude in all living things:

Trees are grateful, as are squash and squirrels,

Hedgehogs, hedges, hummingbirds, and mites,

All that live in houses, reefs, or burrows,

Nests, shells, caves, cracks, walls, streams, toxic sites;

Knowing each its own sweet strain of joy,

Sensing pleasure, hunger, rapture, pain,

Grief and gladness, hopes that spirits buoy,

In hawks and humans, seaweed, grass, and grain;

Vividly in love with life and being,

In which the gift ordains the mystery;

Nor ought one rank the many ways of seeing,

Given the shared wonder of to be.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Thanksgiving

11/19: Tell Me, Please, Whom I Ought to Thank

11/20: The Point Is What You Have, Not What You Don’t

11/21: There Is No Joy That Does Not Sing of Longing

11/22: Time Is a Gift, like Food or Love or Death

11/23: I Look Across

11/24: The Thing I Am Most Thankful for Is Love

11/25: Trees Are Grateful, as Are Squash and Squirrels