Last week at this time

I know many people in the Eastern US have had (and may have right now) much more snow. But this is what mama nature brought us here.

The sun has been out all day, and melted where thinnest especially on pavement.  The pile of snow on the right of the roadway is a mystery to me.  I didn't take my garbage out to be picked up this morning, not wanting to have snowy garbage in case they didn't make it up the hill.  Now I've got to wait a week.

In the silence of listening, you can know yourself in everyone, the unseen singing softly to itself and to you.

Rachel Naomi Remen

 

The little brown church across the road

Walk across Montreat Rd. from Beech St. to my church, The Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Swannanoa Valley 

Holiday Wreathes were still up when this sunbeam-blessed photo was taken.

Off Montreat Rd

Fall colors along Beech Street, Black Mountain

"We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond."

Gwendolyn Brooks

Ms. Brooks speaks very poetically, but what does "magnitude and bond" mean?  For me it tends to say we make the other bigger, but also hold them back, or set limits.  What do you think?