Tuesday, March 08, 2005

Sevenses

Hey, thanks, everybody, for your support over the past day or so.  It’s been a strange and disrupted time for us but your friendship has helped to make sense out of the circumstances.  We miss Rufus very much but we know that, to the extent it was time for her to go, she went with dignity, and to the extent that she can endure, she always will.  As will we all, one way or another.  We have much to learn from our fellow species, and from the natural cycle wherever it rouses itself. 

A few weeks ago our dear friend sawni was traipsing in the woods and found an old iron oven door.  It’s a small thing, only about seven inches square at the most, deeply carved with archaic reliefwork and richly covered in mottled rust.  She somehow sensed that I would cherish it so she sent it to me; I find it deeply satisfying and am happy to present a few photos of it.  They’re on the photoblog too. 

Perhaps tomorrow I’ll have something of subsance to say.  Hey, there’s always a first time.