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  • From: Jack Rowe <jackrowe@compuserve.com>
  • To: ESSA <essa@csf.colorado.edu>, UNC Perm List <permaculture@listserv.unc.edu>, Envirolink Perm List <permaculture@envirolink.org>
  • Subject: thanks...
  • Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 00:21:11 -0400

A prayer (to God, Self, the Great Silence, Us, Cosmos, Void, Whomever, All
of the Above) for Thanks Giving:

PRAYER FOR THE GREAT FAMILY

Gratitude to Mother Earth, sailing through night and day —
and to her soil: rich, rare, and sweet —
in our minds so be it.
Gratitude to Plants, the sun-facing, light-changing leaf
and fine root-hairs; standing still through wind
and rain; their dance is in the flowing spiral grain —
in our minds so be it.
Gratitude to Air, bearing the soaring Swift and the silent
Owl at dawn. Breath of our song
clear spirit breeze —
in our minds so be it.
Gratitude to Wild Beings, our brothers, teaching secrets,
freedoms, and ways; who share with us their milk;
self-complete, brave, and aware —
in our minds so be it.
Gratitude to Water: clouds, lakes, rivers, glaciers;
holding or releasing; streaming through all
our bodies salty seas —
in our minds so be it.
Gratitude to the Sun: blinding pulsing light through
trunks of trees, through mists, warming caves where
bears and snakes sleep — he who wakes us —
in our minds so be it.
Gratitude to the Great Sky
who holds billions of stars — and goes yet beyond that —
beyond all powers, and thoughts
and yet is within us —
Grandfather Space.
The Mind is his Wife.
So be it.

Gary Snyder, after a Mohawk prayer



  • thanks..., Jack Rowe, 10/12/1998

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