#stewardship
They chose a tree that had already listened,
rings full of weather, patience, and time,
a trunk that knew how rivers remember
and how fire, when honored, can be kind.
In Ashfield the park will hold its breath,
May smoke lifting slow and thin,
not the smoke of loss or taking,
but the careful burn that brings shape back in.
A mishoon is not carved by force or hurry,
it's coaxed by flame and knowing hands,
fire teaching wood how to open itself
to water, to journey, to land.
Before maps, before towns learned borders,
before grants and calendars and dates,
canoes like this traced quiet futures
through coves, through bends, through the grammar of lakes.
Now the town makes room for the old instruction,
steps aside and lets it speak,
honors the first stewards of these waters
whose care ran deeper than words could reach.
I think of all the songs for the land I've written,
not to claim it, not to own,
but to stand with fields and rivers
and say this place is not alone.
This one won't be sung from a stage or porch,
no chorus to carry the tune,
but it rhymes the way fire and water do,
each shaping the other, each knowing when to yield room.
When the boat parade drifts into September,
and the mishoon meets the light,
it will carry more than wood and flame,
it will carry a memory done right.
A reminder that land remembers who listens,
that revival doesn't shout or boast,
it arrives as fire guided gently,
as a canoe returning to the coast.
Feb 5
Feb 5, 2026 at 12:02 PM UTC
I send my roots into the earth,
accepting the sacred duty.
The gentle, yielding, firm,
and fertile ground of the mother.
I will water her.
I will protect her.
I accept responsibility
for this ground.
I yield to this process.
Enveloped by life. By time.
I yield to the watching.
I accept what it brings.
I choose to love
what comes before me,
so that what blooms
when I wither away,
may always be love.
May 15, 2023
May 15, 2023 at 3:05 PM UTC
Think twice before you take
Take only what you need
Use everything you take
Take full charge of your greed
Feb 17, 2022
Feb 17, 2022 at 7:06 AM UTC
We act as stewards only
Of the things we think we “own”
So let’s not get so prideful
And think we “made it” all alone
Our skills and talents also
Come unbidden as a gift
So let’s not be self-serving
But reach out to help and lift
Enjoy and use the good things
All the blessings of this earth
We are just the stewards
Of what we’ve gained since birth
An attitude that sets us free
And flow with more prosperity
Stewardship helps us to see
The riches of all eternity
Sep 24, 2020
Sep 24, 2020 at 10:13 AM UTC
To make a new beginning.
To go through, but suddenly go back.
With the ability to rethink prior actions
Correcting self.
To be better at.
Redirecting thoughts.
Applying evaluation to the experiences.
Creating balance to produce better outcomes.
Preparing the mind then training the flesh to follow.
Often hard to do, because sometimes! what or who that has been obtained must be let go of.
Hope for the better, Even with mixed emotions
Step after step
Starting over could be the best bet
Not only is there a New beginning
Also comes Beautiful Endings
May 7, 2020
May 7, 2020 at 11:37 PM UTC
It is the supply
Receipt of the followings
Ecological security,
Social and emotional security, and
Economic security!
These supply are conditional
With the followings
Passion for naturalism and nature stewardship,
Care for humanism,
Ready to co-exist with diversity,
And minimalism!
Total Cost for supply is
World with stable equilibrium linking to steady state
With additional taxes for negative externalities
And subsidy for positive externalities!
Mar 23, 2020
Mar 23, 2020 at 4:08 AM UTC
I think foolish best describes an intellectual's ways
I know it sounds ironic, but I'll enlighten you on what the world says Or rather what the world thinks
See, I grew up thinking that reading was learning
And learning was knowledge
And that knowledge was born from logic
And finally that logic was wisdom
Is it just me or did we all grow up in a society that was blinkered to view wisdom as education
With our minds blinded to see intellect as knowledge
Thinking knowledge is power, power is money and money is...well...everything
Well, money does answer all, but it is not everything
You see, mankind's intelligence never satisfies
The more learned we become the more the world slips away
The more knowledge we possess
The more the world becomes complex
We believe ourselves to be the I AM
With the power to know everything
We seek wisdom in philosophy
But it only makes us realize we are fools
That the wise don’t exist on earth
Unless we seek wisdom in the great I AM
And forget that earthly knowledge is power
Well, knowledge is power, but WISDOM
Wisdom is ETERNITY
It is the eternal life that we're all working towards
The life that that thief on the cross had to look forward to
Only because he was wise enough to recognize his salvation and his Saviour
So, dear stewards, the best that you can give your children is not a Harvard or Oxford kind of education
The most valuable gift is not the concept of making money
The best that you can give to those in your care is wisdom
This wisdom is the knowledge of a man
Who abandoned His own kingdom
To die for foolish simple men
A man who stood before so called high judges
Yet He was the Most High
A man who humbled the proud
And used the foolish things to shame them
For His word says that even His foolishness
Is greater than our wisdom
For His thoughts are not our thoughts
Neither are his ways our ways
So, all I'm saying is
The most valuable legacy that you can leave
Is the knowledge of the One with all the wisdom,
The wisdom to choose God
For we only find wisdom when we realize, we are nothing but fools before Him
Miss Fit
Mar 23, 2019
Mar 23, 2019 at 1:09 PM UTC
let’s go back a
hundred-thousand years
to these ragged edges
torn rains
raw greens
biting seas
to the first sunrise,
now understood.
tears of calm joy –
a return.
we find ourselves
in this,
a kinship;
our brother is
our keeper,
and we
its’ guardian,
walk the edges
and the smooths;
our planet,
Earth’s children
May 1, 2015
May 1, 2015 at 8:08 AM UTC