Sisters Jackie, Frankie, and Clare

Logos

 

Why wonder about the loaves and the fishes?
If you say the right words, the wine expands.
If you say them with love
and the felt ferocity of that love
and the felt necessity of that love,
the fish explode into the many.
Imagine him, speaking,
and don't worry about what is reality,
or what is plain, or what is mysterious.
If you were there, it was all those things.
If you can imagine it, it was all those things.
Eat, drink, be happy.
Accept the miracle.
Accept, too, each spoken word
spoken with love.

 

~ Mary Oliver ~

 

(Why I Wake Early)

Synchronicity, when found is effervescent.  Like the carbonation of a soda drink a synchronistic moment bubbles up joy because in that moment we know that somehow we are all connected.  And this is truly magnificent!

Jackie read the poem (above) from Mary Oliver as her gift.  Only moments later as I opened Clare's gift and found a portion of that same poem I am once again reminded that SW Virginia is a blessed place, a thin, sacred place where connections are easy to find whether they be friends, animals or the earth.  This I have learned.

The Grand Marnier will expand as we open it on Tuesday and watch the election returns.  Thank you, Clare, for the gift and for coming to my party. Thank you for being my friend!