"What kind of seeds are you planting? Hitting seeds or sharing seeds?" Thich Nhat Hanh opens his book with a discussion of how we can choose which "seeds" we water in ourselves. This is an analogy my mother used all the time when we were young. But I found it helpful in a number of ways. This is going to be another of those books that tells you about how you have to fix yourself before you can fix anything else in the world. When we first picked up this book, I have to admit I groaned a little. Well that was during March and April, and while I did read *most* of the book back then, I am finally finishing the last chapter now.īelieve me, it was an interesting process reading and discussing a book by a Zen Buddhist with a group of very Maine Congregationalists. For lent, our church chose to read Creating True Peace: Ending Violence in Yourself, Your Family, Your Community, and the World by Zen Buddhist Thich Nhat Hanh. That black forest and the fire in earnest.Īs usual, I am a bit behind the times. Summer afternoons you look at me as though
What would it really have been like? The result is startling and lovely and very chilling. Louise Glück puts herself in Gretel's place. This is Hansel and Gretel, set well after the incident with the witch, the gingerbread house, and the final escape-the witch's head in the oven. I love this poem for the way she re-imagines the familiar fairy tale. It's out of print on its own, but all the poems can be found in the collection: First Four Books Of Poems. It's from her book The House on Marshland, which is stunning.
Here is one of my favorite poems by Louise Glück. For the next week or so, I will only have sporadic access to the computer, so my posts may be a bit more random than my usual Monday, Wednesday, Friday schedule.
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