Thanks & blessings
be to the Sun & the Earth for this bread & this wine, this
fruit, this meat, this salt, this food; thanks be & blessing to
them who prepare it, who serve it; thanks & blessings to them who
share it (& also the absent & the dead). Thanks & Blessing to
them who bring it (may they not want), to them who plant & tend
it, harvest & gather it (may they not want); thanks & blessing
to them who work & blessing to them who cannot; may they not want -
for their hunger sours the wine & robs the taste from the
salt. Thanks be for the sustenance & strength for our dance & work
of justice, of peace.
~ Rafael Jesus Gonzalez
~
(In Praise of Fetile Land,
edited by Claudia Mauro)
