She wades into wheat and I watch her go, her parting gold. Bowed heads rustle, whisper summer as she passes, skirt trailing behind.
The grasshoppers light. Her hair waves, honeyed wheat. I notice that, watch after that. August drones.
She stops, mid-field.
By the lone maple, island green, she stops just there in the middle, and I think it’s a monarch, glory flash, or cricket stilled so she’s stilled too, or a bouquet of wild daisies, and I wait to see, for her to turn.
She doesn’t.
She raises her hands in the middle of a wheat field.
“Hope?” I call across field. A moth dances, paper wings. She doesn’t turn. “Are you good, Hope?”
“I’m good.”
I wait…. She lifts hands higher.
“Just thinking of God.”
Ah.
Standing on edge of the world, watching her with heaven hands, I raise mine.
The wheat murmurs glory and I hear it.
We could live this way.
we could… raised-hand-living… glory, glory, glory… endless gifts # 1111-1124
boy-to-Mama waves
listening to working boy whistling “Bringing in the Sheaves”
two roosters
windmills under moonlight
amber sun laying down across corn
neighbor couple walking over the fields, fishing poles over shoulders
one red leaf in the sumac, hint
cattails on a Saturday
four vases of sunflowers
Farmer with his dog…
how he comes up the back walk from barn choring, coming in for dinner, and I lean up against the kitchen windowsill and just watch how that man loves….
muffin tins of candles
farm table at the end of the day, kids and corn and tomatoes and laughter and loud
and
quiet witnessing of flickering flame
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Photos: praise from the farm this week
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