I was walking in the fields this week to look at our two mares on the hill farm of Clonfin in east Longford. There was a fog settled on the fields and as I walked through it I came to find the mares. In the fog I found a clumsy beauty, as the writer, Thomas Merton put it. I like that phrase, ‘clumsy beauty’: it implies that not everything is perfect, not everything is whole but it is there and real and concrete.
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