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Although a little delayed, the long-awaited rain and thunder did eventually arrive. Join us tonight as we hunker down beside a young willow and enjoy, with a field full of crows, the wonder of a thunderstorm as it roars overhead and all the richness it brings. 

Journal entry:

19th August, Friday.

“An impulse forage among the brambles on a
 Blustery day of tall clouds and sunshine.
 I pick the high berries, you the lower ones.
 I extricate you when a bramble thorns your sleeve.
 Thirty-seven years fall away  
 And my heart melts once more,
 Like it did
 When we first met.

We have done this hundreds of times before
 And will do again.
 But not like this.
 Never again, will it be exactly like this.
 
 These few spontaneous moments
 Pouring blackberries into our bag
 Will somehow be the most cherished memory
 I take from this holiday.

Both instinctively aware of its special quality
 A golden moment that joins us.
 Those few moments when we
 Completely filled the world with our quiet presence.”

 

Episode Information:

In this episode I read two of Wendell Berry’s Sabbath poems:

XIX – ‘Some Sunday afternoon’

XXI – ‘I was awakened from my dream of the ruined world’

You can listen to the MIND Station using the imbedded player at Mind Station. 

Recording of the rain and thunder recorded on Erica: South Stratford Canal (16.08.2022).

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General Details

In the intro and the outro, Saint-Saen's The Swan is performed by Karr and Bernstein (1961) and available on CC at archive.org.

Two-stroke narrowboat engine recorded by 'James2nd' on the River Weaver, Cheshire. Uploaded to Freesound.org on 23rd June 2018. Creative Commons Licence. 

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