Calendar blogiversary: one year

A year ago today I began blogging. It was Ash Wednesday. (I already mentioned the liturgical blogiversary a few weeks ago on this year's Ash Wednesday.)

I've a busy day today, in office hours most of the afternoon and then teaching all evening till late, with a meeting afterward (!), but will offer thanks for the blogging community and other joys either late tonight or sometime during the next few days! For now, THANK YOU for visiting, reading, commenting, and so much more. A special shout-out to those who read but do not comment on-blog. Some of you have told me off-blog that you visit this space, others among you just visit silently. Blessings, all.

There's more to this poem by Denise Levertov, but the beginning of the poem is enough for now.

But we have only begun
to love the earth.

We have only begun
to imagine the fulness of life.

How could we tire of hope?
–so much is in the bud.

How can desire fail?
–we have only begun

to imagine justice and mercy,
only begun to envision

how it might be
to live as siblings with beast
**and flower,
not as oppressors. ...