In a great podcast from Literary Arts*, poet Naomi Shihab Nye muses about a conversation with an old friend who is now an apple grower near Portland. He pointed to places on old trees where they are scarred on the bottom of the trunk and said, “ You know, when a tree is in distress, it wants to bear fruit.” I thought about patients but also about family and friends who when in crisis, find meaning and move forward in some beneficial way. Right now, a dear relative and friend has a sudden serious illness and this is very much my hope for her.
*Literary Arts in conjunction with Oregon Public Broadcasting has archived talks from the world’s best writers over the first 30 years of the Portland Arts and Lectures in Portland.
*Literary Arts in conjunction with Oregon Public Broadcasting has archived talks from the world’s best writers over the first 30 years of the Portland Arts and Lectures in Portland.
|