(February 5, 2021, feast day of the Seeker of (or Recovery of) the Perishing Icon of the Mother of God, the Elets- Chernigov Icon of the Mother of God (above) Saint Agatha of Sicely, Saint Agatha Hildegard of Carinthia, and Saint Theodula. Image from here.)
Sustainable
When my oldest daughter read the story of St. Ia, I asked her what stood out most to her about it. "I think it's cool how God uses ordinary things, like that leaf, to perform His miracles," she replied. - Seven Holy Women: Conversations with Saints and Friends, Melinda Johnson, et all.
A tree born
has sap for nurse. Flows
from root to sky, and
branches out its pulse,
as world. Till
"That one," the man donning
logger hat says, and a pile forms
of smooth glow
concentric circles. Till
"That one," the artist says,
palms its weight, traces paths
form a slanted Cross. Carves
out the hollow, then stem. And
"That one," I think, turn to
favorite wooden spoon. "Why
it's like a tree, look!, this handle its
trunk," tell my Joseph. Who glancing
at his old logger's hat, drifts
to forests all his own.
*From prompt: Freewrite as spurred by David Hernandez's Moose In Snow, following a familiar object's history, in reporter's laying down the facts and chronicling tone, ending with full circle moment when the object is present in your own life; from Esther Lin's Quarantine Write-in (Hugo House, Seattle), February 4, 2021.
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