How do we awaken our natural capacities for gratitude and generosity? This talk explores the pathways of honest presence and purposeful cultivation, and offers several reflections that guide us in contacting and expressing our love (a favorite Thanksgiving talk re-mastered from the archives).
On cold evenings
my grandmother,
with ownership of half her mind-
the other half having flown back to Bohemia –spread newspapers over the porch floor
so, she said, the garden ants could crawl beneath,
as under a blanket, and keep warm,and what shall I wish for, for myself,
but, being so struck by the lightning of years,
to be like her with what is left, that loving.Mary Oliver, “In Praise of Craziness, of a Certain Kind”
