Sue Moon’s Blog

“This human body is more precious than the rarest gem. Cherish your body; it is yours for this one time only…..a thing of beauty that passes away.”

The bud stands for all things, even for those things that don’t flower, for everything flowers, from within, of self-blessing; though sometimes it is necessary to re-teach a thing its loveliness, to put a hand on the brow of the flower and retell it in words and in touch it is lovely until it flowers again from within, of self blessing; as Saint Francis put his hand on the creased forehead of the sow, and told her in words and in touch blessings of earth on the sow, and the sow began remembering all down her thick length, from the earthen snout all the way through the fodder and slops to the spiritual curl of her tail…..the long, perfect loveliness of sow.

-St Francis and the Sow by Galway Kinnell