OpenTable by David Benson https://padlet.com/david_benson/opentable A share page for our latest themed dinner at https://christspieces.org/open-table/. en-us 2025-08-28 06:34:34 UTC 2025-11-01 18:20:51 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-uploads-usc1.storage.googleapis.com/54207162/878e4777782d559a0ad5d50e4fea2fbb/ot_small.jpg In a Waiting-Room, Thomas Hardy https://padlet.com/david_benson/opentable/wish/3558299408 I probably won't be along on Friday night, but I wanted to share this poem with you. I love Hardy. I find his ache for belief moving -'Hoping it might be so' from The Oxen- and have enjoyed his poetry and prose. I chose this poem because I can relate to the way children brighten our waiting experience.

From Melissa 

]]> 2025-08-28 06:34:34 UTC https://padlet.com/david_benson/opentable/wish/3558299408 Waiting at the window https://padlet.com/david_benson/opentable/wish/3558299410 Sorry that Shayne & I will miss this fun filled night now. We had prepared & want to share our contributions. My poem share is a children's poem & It reflects my thoughts about what we miss when we don't 'wait' well ( see attached).Shayne's share is a delicious bean dip recipe, Mmm. Bless you all Bron xx]]> 2025-08-28 06:34:34 UTC https://padlet.com/david_benson/opentable/wish/3558299410 Roasted Garlic and White Bean Dip With Rosemary https://padlet.com/david_benson/opentable/wish/3558299412 2025-08-28 06:34:34 UTC https://padlet.com/david_benson/opentable/wish/3558299412 the master of silly rhyme Dr Suess...all I'm up for atm.... https://padlet.com/david_benson/opentable/wish/3558299413 but also a clip I made and uploaded about waiting....just a drawing...not a poem....click link below to wait and draw ....
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlUzSBr2emQ

]]> 2025-08-28 06:34:34 UTC https://padlet.com/david_benson/opentable/wish/3558299413 Nik and Dave’s bean-ie plate licc_ltd https://padlet.com/david_benson/opentable/wish/3558299414 2025-08-28 06:34:34 UTC https://padlet.com/david_benson/opentable/wish/3558299414 licc_ltd https://padlet.com/david_benson/opentable/wish/3558299415 2025-08-28 06:34:34 UTC https://padlet.com/david_benson/opentable/wish/3558299415 licc_ltd https://padlet.com/david_benson/opentable/wish/3558299416 2025-08-28 06:34:34 UTC https://padlet.com/david_benson/opentable/wish/3558299416 licc_ltd https://padlet.com/david_benson/opentable/wish/3558299418 2025-08-28 06:34:34 UTC https://padlet.com/david_benson/opentable/wish/3558299418 https://padlet.com/david_benson/opentable/wish/3558299419 2025-08-28 06:34:34 UTC https://padlet.com/david_benson/opentable/wish/3558299419 Window Poems - Wendell Berry - The Hudson Review Vol 21, No. 2, pp 288-289 (19680 https://padlet.com/david_benson/opentable/wish/3558299421   The country where he lives
 is haunted
 by the ghost of an old forest.
 In the cleared fields
 where he gardens
 and pastures his horses
 it stood once,
 and will return. There will be
 a resurrection of the wild.
 Already it stands in wait
 at the pasture fences.
 It is rising up
 in the waste places of the cities.
 When the fools of the capitals
 have devoured each other
 in righteousness,
 and the machines have eaten
 the rest of us, then
 there will be the second coming
 of the trees. They will come
 straggling over the fences
 slowly, but soon enough.
 The highways will sound
 with the feet of the wild herds,
 returning. Beaver will ascend
 the streams as the trees
 close over them.
 The wolf and the panther
 will find their old ways
 through the nights. Water
 and air will flow clear.
 Certain calamities
 will have passed,
 and certain pleasures.
 The wind will do without
 corners. How difficult
 to think of it: miles and miles
 and no window.]]> 2025-08-28 06:34:34 UTC https://padlet.com/david_benson/opentable/wish/3558299421 White beans with Lemon and Broccoli grasseynoel https://padlet.com/david_benson/opentable/wish/3558299422 https://www.bonappetit.com/recipe/white-beans-broccoli-rabe-lemon

]]> 2025-08-28 06:34:34 UTC https://padlet.com/david_benson/opentable/wish/3558299422 licc_ltd https://padlet.com/david_benson/opentable/wish/3558299423 2025-08-28 06:34:35 UTC https://padlet.com/david_benson/opentable/wish/3558299423 Waiting for the transformation grasseynoel https://padlet.com/david_benson/opentable/wish/3558299425 My head peers over the edge
the edge of the water
into the water she enters, transparent
translucent now and still shapeless yet I know she is there

The water ripples as her edges change colour
the edges of her gown she wears
the gown she wears to cloth her splendor
her splendor I am yet to see fully, but I know what is to come

Her gentle water dance continues
a dance as she floats, a dance as she sinks
and she floats and sinks and becomes more white
her white gown shrouding her still mysterious heart

I watch as each minute passes
each minute a thousand breaths
each breathes a gasp, as she continues her transformation
her continual journey from one life to this life  

and now I see her heart, her soul, her essence forming
the essence of her whole life
and this life that I have placed her in
placed, in my care

finally the time has arrived
the time for her exit from her birthplace
freed from her shell of entrapment
birthed into water, air, ground

I gentley cup her form, still tender
the gentle lift that has been entrusted to me
lifted, carefully from the water
carefully placed onto her green mound of resting

She is not my beloved that I have rescued
my beloved is beside me watching this wonder
this wonder is for her
as I speak gently to her

Your breakfast is ready, poached egg on avacado and toast. 
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