porch: 

\pôrch\ n. 

1. a point of arrival & departure, transition,

passage & portal 

2. a place to gather & share company,

    stories & songs 

3. where interior and exterior worlds meet 

4. both shelter & threshold 

5. where views extend outward 

6. space to pause and reflect 

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“We sat on the porch, in comfortable rocking chairs,

and listened intently to a recording of Joanna Macy,

with Anita Barrows, reading their lovely translation

of Rilke's sublime and mystical poem,

'Let This Darkness Be a Bell Tower'.”