Turning the compost

Unfolding Light · Jul 23, 2026 · 1m

It begins with the thrust of the fork,piercing the side of the pile,opening up the flesh of the earth, the scrapsof every sacred meal, the once savory leavingsof every sensuous morsel that passed your lips,the bright, transcendent moments nowno different from the failures, the spoileddishes that hit the garbage before the plate,the sins and revelations all alikeleft to richly rot and bless their grave.Giving thanks, you upheave the workof worms and bugs, the dark laborhidden from your eyes but not your faith,the transfiguration of the messfrom the leavings of death to living soil.To theirs…