Happy Thanksgiving from the CFL!

Happy Thanksgiving to all our readers!

Here’s an ode to aquatic gratitude by John Bates, a poet from the LTEArts exhibit. 

Pilgrimage

Let us bless the humility of water, Always willing to take the shape Of whatever otherness holds it. – John O’Donahue

That this water has emerged from this ground to bring forth these lives – the bluegill, the loon the mussel, the lily the otter, the dragonfly – is a grace I surely don’t deserve but which I am doing all I know to embrace.

The water moves in pilgrimage always kneeling on lower ground sinuous in its grace every wave another lapped meaning on its shores coming again again in case we forget where we began what we are made of where we are going.

– John Bates