A Poem to Say Happy Holidays!
 We are honored to serve the Methow Valley community, and we wish you all the coziest of holidays! May we each feel a little bit of the connection this wintry poem reminds us to celebrate: Celebration There is a reason we save this time of year for celebration, this time when we need sun or star or flame to take us through the axis tip; when we need snowfall and miracle and warmth and song to carry us through till spring. There is a reason we search the sky, listening for wingbeat, verse, the sound of doves hovering in the shelter of pine. We look toward one another, rather than away, pull in toward the hearth the sturdy chair, take the arms of one so loved, we could not go on without them, and in this pause, we pull in the world. The long winter night fills us: a renewal, a radiance, a reason for waking. -M.E. Hope (See another of her poems, as well as her rurally inspired bio here.) |