Strange
how evening reverberates
through one and all…
Even the crows
have golden wings
as they fly into the sunset.
~ Hans Børli
(The Nordic Light)
home from gleaning
Strange
how evening reverberates
through one and all…
Even the crows
have golden wings
as they fly into the sunset.
~ Hans Børli
(The Nordic Light)
Nice poem!
Thank you, Eliza!
I was intrigued by the oil painting so I Ai googled it, Barbara. Learn what Gleening was about and the history of it on those days. Very interesting.
Decided to Ai google the poem out of curiosity. A fleeting moment of grace.
A magic at the end of day.
Lovely poem I think.
I first learned about gleaning at a Bible study, many years ago. In the book of Ruth, she is a widow who meets Boaz while she’s out gleaning grain in a field. The story always touched me.
The poem is from a collection of six little books of translations of the poetry of Scandinavian poets from Natur og Kulturforlaget. I treasure it and often use the poems here on my blog.
These young ladies have gleaned a lot of wheat (?) to feed their families. They look tired as they trudge along carrying the fruits of their harvest. How lucky we are to just go to the grocery store and buy what we need.
It’s so true. We really have no idea how hard people had to work to provide enough food for their families, and how vulnerable they were to droughts and floods and freezes and fires affecting their food supply. I don’t know how long our luck will hold out, though. We take a lot for granted, thinking food will always find its way to our store shelves.
Yes, they had it tough and I agree with you Barbara. Every day it seems there is something in the news about how a particular food will be scarce due to weather-related issues that damage crops, etc. Recently it was coffee; yesterday it was blueberries. And I don’t recall there ever being so many recalls for food contamination – Michigan leads all states in the cyclospora outbreak, with, at last count, 10,200 cases and today there were two deaths.
And because of the crisis in the Middle East there’s a shortage of fertilizer for farmers which is bound to affect food supplies. And with gas prices going up it could become so costly to transport food to grocery stores that it will be too expensive to buy. And as you point out, even if it gets to the store it may not be safe to eat. It all makes me wish I had my own farm, like my grandparents had during the Great Depression.
I didn’t know about the shortage of fertilizer for famers – that’s terrible as well. Last week I topped off my gas tank as I hoped to get out more in August since all my errands, appointments, contractors, etc. were done for now … I had 3/4s of a tank and it was $29.00. As to this unsafe produce, which is very scary – now Michigan has 11,500 cases as of today and two deaths yesterday. This is beyond scary. The whole Taylor Farms outbreak is something I don’t understand … if you know about the cyclospora issue, why continue to purchase the brand? Why are people continuing to be so sick? They don’t watch/read the news or just eat it anyway? When we got our first canary in 2006, we switched from iceberg lettuce to Romaine – canaries can’t eat iceberg as it’s too watery for them. So, my mom, then I watched carefully for any outbreak that could harm us and kill him. I subscribed to “iwaspoisoneddotcom” to keep up to date with outbreaks in the area. I finally switched to broccoli as there were so many incidents regarding lettuce. I still subscribe to this site and get an almost daily e-mail about what is making people sick in the area.
I love the golden hour when it appears. Makes the world feel beautiful. We need all the beauty we can get.
The moments surrounding the sunset are a wonderful suspended pause in our daily lives. I used to love sitting down at the beach at that hour.