Forest Fires

Latimer Minster

Oasis:1st October - 11am-5.30 - Big Top

Sunday mornings 9.30/45
Forest Fires is an informal gathering in the woods or the barns at Stampwell farm with Latimer Minster. (weather dependent)

Minster Wesbite

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Oasis

To find out more about the growing community of artists, musicians and theologians at Stampwell Farm - do get in touch

david.bennett@theology.ox.ac.uk

Poetry of Autumn

Mary Oliver:Fall Song

Another year gone, leaving everywhere
its rich spiced residues: vines, leaves,

the uneaten fruits crumbling damply
in the shadows, unmattering back

from the particular island
of this summer, this NOW, that now is nowhere

except underfoot, moldering
in that black subterranean castle

of unobservable mysteries - roots and sealed seeds
and the wanderings of water. This

I try to remember when time's measure
painfully chafes, for instance when autumn

flares out at the last, boisterous and like us longing
to stay - how everything lives, shifting

from one bright vision to another, forever
in these momentary pastures.

Woods by Wendell Berry

I part the out thrusting branches
and come in beneath
the blessed and the blessing trees.
Though I am silent
there is singing around me.
Though I am dark
there is vision around me.
Though I am heavy
there is flight around me.

Luke 6