You Shine Where You Stand

And there at the camp we had around us the elemental world of water and light and earth and air. We felt the presences of the wild creatures, the river, the trees, the stars. Though we had our troubles, we had them in a true perspective. The universe, as we could see any night, is unimaginably large, and mostly dark. We knew we needed to be together more than we needed to be apart.
--Wendell Berry

Bert Jansch: The Ornament Tree

Wild geese

fly overhead.

They wrench my heart.

They were our friends

in the old days.

--Li Ch'ing Chao