visitors animate the Cabin
the "Cabin on the Creek" just feels right:
endowed with holding the visitor
with both physical and spiritual comforts,
when visitors leave, though,
an inevitable emptiness settles on us still left,
as if the power switch is turned off,
and the machine settles back into companionable expectation,
as if now we are in a Quaker meeting for worship
and awaiting a new "quaking" from the natural world,
a group of family, a group of friends,
animates that which before was more of mechanism
than the vibrancy of something truly alive,
the best within us seeks to connect,
to make sense of it all,
to work to bring forth what feels to be right,
as beautiful and well-ordered as we can help create
when the gifts of other people awaken and bring to life
a connected whole of which we are a part,
the potential before us, around us, within us, alive,
as we wake up and the possible becomes the actual.
by Henry H. Walker
July 1 ‘26
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