October 28, 2016

" . . . . With sweet and scarless sky stir in my ears, speak there of God’s love, O live air, of patience, penance, prayer: World-mothering air, air wild, wound with thee, in thee isled, fold home, fast fold thy child."

- Gerard Manley Hopkins, from "The Blessed Virgin compared to the Air we Breathe" in Poems 1918 and referenced in Marya Grathwohl's Climate change, spiritual practice and Mom's meatloaf, published on Global Sisters Report