Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Angels



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.
- Wendell Berry
  1970
I'm over at Hopeful Parents today.

13 comments:

  1. this
    moment,
    you,
    sophie,
    abgels,
    caught in my throat
    and i
    stumbled hard
    into
    ecstasy.

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  2. That was really beautiful over there, Elizabeth. Wishing you and your beautiful angel joy and peace today.

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  3. Angels we have heard on high, in darkness and in light.

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  4. Sophie is so beautiful. I just love the look in her eyes.

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  5. love this photo, love your beautiful hand, love this poem.

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  6. 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!

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  7. 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

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  8. "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...

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  9. 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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