By Alice C. Henderson
The silver rain,
The golden sun,
The fields where scarlet poppies run,
And all the ripples of the wheat
Are in the bread that I do eat.
So when I pause for every meal
And say this grace, I always feel
That I am eating rain and sun
And fields where scarlet poppies run.
Nine-year-old Shoshanna Brady of Takoma Park,
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By Alice C. Henderson
The silver rain,
The golden sun,
The fields where scarlet poppies run,
And all the ripples of the wheat
Are in the bread that I do eat.
So when I pause for every meal
And say this grace, I always feel
That I am eating rain and sun
And fields where scarlet poppies run.
Nine-year-old Shoshanna Brady of Takoma Park, Maryland learned this verse n Waldorf School. Shoshanna and her family practice with the Washington, D. C. Mindfulness Community.
