Wednesday, June 14, 2006

After retiring, Bishop Griswold said, he may write a book or two. Or take up invitations to teach. Or tend to his house in New Hampshire, where, he said, he can scythe a meadow.

“I like to scythe,” Bishop Griswold said, with a small smile, “because grass obeys in a way people sometimes don’t.”

— Bishop Frank T. Griswold, Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church (USA), 1997–2006, New York Times, June 11, 2006