Mother’s Prayer

Our Mother who art underfoot and all about,
hallowed be thy names.
Thy seasons come, Thy will be done,
within us as around us.
Thank you for our daily bread, our water, our air, our lives,
and so much beauty;
Lead us not into selfish craving and destructions,
the hungers of the glutted,
but deliver us from wanton consumption
of Thy vast but finite bounty.
For Thine is the only sphere of life we know,
And the power and the glory, forever and ever.

Amen.

  —-  Rebecca Solnit
adapted from The Lord’s Prayer
Image by Steven Goddard from Pixabay

Writer, historian, and activist Rebecca Solnit is the author of more than twenty books on feminism, western and indigenous history, popular power, social change and insurrection, wandering and walking, hope and disaster, including Whose Story Is This?, Call Them By Their True Names (Winner of the 2018 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction), Cinderella Liberator, Men Explain Things to Me, The Mother of All Questions, and Hope in the Dark, and co-creator of the City of Women map, all published by Haymarket Books; a trilogy of atlases of American cities, The Faraway Nearby, A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disaster, A Field Guide to Getting Lost, Wanderlust: A History of Walking, and River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West (for which she received a Guggenheim, the National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism, and the Lannan Literary Award). Her memoir, Recollections of My Nonexistence, was released in March, 2020.

A product of the California public education system from kindergarten to graduate school, she is a columnist at the Guardian and a regular contributor to Literary Hub.

For more about Rebecca Solnit, visit her website:  http://rebeccasolnit.net/