All of Life Is Holy

Lips of breaking waves

The world is holy. We are holy. All life is holy. Daily prayers are delivered on the lips of breaking waves, the whisperings of grasses, the shimmering of leaves.

– Terry Tempest Williams, from Talking to God: Portrait of a World at Prayer (anthology)

Ode to Dirt

Dear dirt, I am sorry I slighted you, I thought you were only the background for the leading characters—the plants and animals and human animals.