“In his poem, There Was a Child Went Forth, part of the Autumn Rivulets cycle, Walt Whitman describes the things that a child sees in his daily wanderings – the shadows, the field-sprouts, the wharves and the ferries, the clouds and the apple trees, the workers, and the families both kind and cruel.
He closes with a startling image: “These became part of the child who went forth every day, and who now goes, and will always go forth every day.”
Are you like that child who never stops adventuring? What is becoming part of that child within you? Are you incorporating shadows and field-sprouts, workers and wharves – or malls and plastics, televisions and technologies? Today is your chance to let nature become part of you.”
From Earth Bound: Daily Meditations for All Seasons by Brian Nelson
Chorlton Unitarians 