{"id":12928,"date":"2010-03-20T11:22:30","date_gmt":"2010-03-20T18:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2010\/03\/20\/12928.html"},"modified":"2010-03-20T11:22:30","modified_gmt":"2010-03-20T18:22:30","slug":"made-in-the-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2010\/03\/20\/made-in-the-light\/","title":{"rendered":"Made in the light"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>That last entry got me poking through some old entries, and in the one about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2009\/08\/10\/12307.html\">Karen K and Allen's wedding<\/a> I found a couple of lines of verse I still like:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"stanza\">\n<p>I give you what is unbounded, passing from dark to dark,<\/p>\n<p>containing darkness: a night of rain, an early morning.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>That turns out to be from Wendell Berry's 1998 poem \"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/archive\/poem.html?id=178176\">The Country of Marriage<\/a>,\" which I'm not sure I had read all the way through before. I'm a little dubious about a couple of bits, but mostly I like it quite a bit, and I love this part, which I think applies as well to unmarried life as to married:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"stanza\">\n<p>Sometimes our life reminds me<\/p>\n<p>of a forest in which there is a graceful clearing<\/p>\n<p>and in that opening a house,<\/p>\n<p>an orchard and garden,<\/p>\n<p>comfortable shades, and flowers<\/p>\n<p>red and yellow in the sun, a pattern<\/p>\n<p>made in the light for the light to return to.<\/p>\n<p>The forest is mostly dark, its ways<\/p>\n<p>to be made anew day after day, the dark<\/p>\n<p>richer than the light and more blessed,<\/p>\n<p>provided we stay brave<\/p>\n<p>enough to keep on going in.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That last entry got me poking through some old entries, and in the one about Karen K and Allen&#8217;s wedding&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-relationships","category-verse"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}