To Know the Dark
To go in the dark with a light is to know the light.
To know the dark, go dark. Go without sight,
and find that the dark, too, blooms and sings,
and is traveled by dark feet and dark wings.
To know the dark, go dark. Go without sight,
and find that the dark, too, blooms and sings,
and is traveled by dark feet and dark wings.
- Wendell Berry
1970
1970
I'm over at Hopeful Parents today.
13 comments:
oh. Elizabeth.
amen
this
moment,
you,
sophie,
abgels,
caught in my throat
and i
stumbled hard
into
ecstasy.
Heartachey.
Thank you both.
xoxox
That was really beautiful over there, Elizabeth. Wishing you and your beautiful angel joy and peace today.
Angels we have heard on high, in darkness and in light.
Beautiful.
Sophie is so beautiful. I just love the look in her eyes.
Lovely and loving.
Best,
Bonnie
love this photo, love your beautiful hand, love this poem.
So grateful to find you on Hopeful Parents. Your heart in this post reached in to a part of mine that has been hiding for a few months regarding one of my girls with a "not sure" diagnosis. It's a hard limbo to live in. Just naming it makes the darkness less of an enemy. Thank you!
Love the Berry poem. Knowing the light helps get us through the dark...
PS: Thank you for the kind comment on my blog tonight.
xoxo,
Terresa
"What I have gained from these fifteen years of navigating in near-darkness is far greater, I believe, than anything I might gain from the sliver of light offered up in the ghostly digital reading of my daughter's brain. "
amen. this, and the wendell berry poem.
and you beautiful angels...
Ah, this is the moment that Rebecca caught on her blog with Wendell Berry's poem. I have this on my blog as well. So beautiful. But with this photo of you and Sophie, it is entirely magical! You are blessed!
xo,
Noelle
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