Ambient Allegience and Dave update and Happy August!!

The combines have begun humming...

the harvest has begun and golden, waving vistas are about to disappear into the steel jaws of Past

We hailed the hold of budded boon

Of mossy trail with violets strewn

Where wooded grail restored the tune

Of maple-linnet bower

The color-wheel of nature bled

Beneath, around and overhead

As earth Her somber mantle shed

For fairer frocks of flower

The hills that wowed our gaze with green

Don shrouds ablaze with golden sheen

In days where thrill of May had been

We sense a soft undoing

Like innocence of youthful bride

Succumbing to time’s stringent stride

And currents in a wresting tide

Of elemental wooing

A curtain falls across the place

Where mothers call and children race

Through doors that cannot bar the chase

Of summer’s fading beauty

While farmers bear the harvest home

And dreamers stare across the loam

That hearkens to a metronome

Of adamant entreaty

…and then the halo of new morn

Silvers with frost stark stalks of corn

And what we thought was quite new-born

Is brittle, bent and weathered

The sweep of countryside is still

Stolid, the line twixt sky and hill

Where we bear witness to the will

Of breath by breath untethered

© Janet Martin 

On Sunday evening Jim and I visited with Dave and Karen for a little while. Although he is feeling much better in some areas, his arms above his elbow/shoulders are still not healing properly so they plan to do more x-rays to see what is going on. 

They deeply appreciate your continued prayers for healing and for much-needed patience for everyone! 

Dave, summer-lover!!! is watching it slip away and though I KNOW he counts his blessings(it could have been SO much worse) he struggles with bouts of restlessness as he thinks of things he wishes he would be able to do!

So, again, please keep praying!
p.s. I was glad to hear his hearty laughter is back and his deep love for the Toronto Blue Jays has not suffered a bit;-)