Coptic stitch album with striped Japanese Yuzen paper

It’s been a wonderfully busy week so far, and Thursdays always seem good for stepping back for just a second and feeling a sense of progress and satisfaction. Also, a little insight from Matt about how we feel some of the time these days.

Around Us
Marvin Bell

We need some pines to assuage the darkness
when it blankets the mind,
we need a silvery stream that banks as smoothly
as a plane’s wing, and a worn bed of
needles to pad the rumble that fills the mind,
and a blur or two of a wild thing
that sees and is not seen. We need these things
between appointments, after work,
and, if we keep them, then someone someday,
lying down after a walk
and supper, with the fire hole wet down,
the whole night sky set at a particular
time, without numbers or hours, will cause
a little sound of thanks-a zipper or a snap-
to close round the moment and the thought
of whatever good we did.