“For a long while, he sat on the steps and sharpened the chain-saw blade with a round file, dipping it in bar-and-chain oil and raking it over each tooth with sleek, grating sounds. He lost himself in the rhythm of the labor. A victory over tears is a small thing, but it was his. The sky went from indigo to blackness, and he saw nothing ominous in it, nothing but cold stars wheeling in their course, a course determined by the same firm hand he hoped was guiding his own. But satellites, too, crossed the sky in sly, winking arcs. Sull knew that. He could not let himself be confounded. He went inside, to sleep beside his wife.” SolitudeSimple FaithNatural CyclesDefeated By NatureEnding As You Began Book:Allegheny Front Source: Allegheny Front
“When you spend any time at all paying attention to the proclivities of the natural world, you realize that nature has no problem including in its sorority the dead, dying, and ailing as fully as the lovely, healthy, and whole.” WholeDeathSpiritualityNatureHolistic ThinkingNatural Cycles Book:Radical Joy for Hard Times: Finding Meaning and Making Beauty in Earth's Broken Places Source: Radical Joy for Hard Times: Finding Meaning and Making Beauty in Earth's Broken Places