Our 2013 wishes for peace, good health and well-being

I don’t want you just to sit down at the table.

I don’t want you just to eat, and be content.

I want you to walk out into the fields

where the water is shining, and the rice has risen.

I want you to stand there, far from the white tablecloth,

I want you to fill your hands with the mud, like a blessing.

— from “Rice,” by Mary Oliver