Staff member Pat Warner helped harvest the St. John's Wort plants that have been solar-infused into organic olive oil for the 2004 Seasons of the Soul St. John's Shield. After having been totally immersed in a field of St. John's Wort for most of a day, he wrote the following poem:

Mid-summer Dream of Forever

I walked in a field
of John,
of God;
In a field of gold
I woke.
And there to a dream
of a knight’s golden shield
far surpassing in riches
or cunning inlaid
the designs of a world
it protected and fed,
lines of a life
I felt in my hands—
To Mid-summer’s day
I was borne.

In John’s time,
in dreamtime,
we walked
and talked
and cut
the living shafts
from arrows of light
shooting around and through
ourselves,
protecting and feeding
the Self with light.

An hour,
a day,
or more,
who knows?
But I am still
in the dream of whole lands
covered by canopies of golden light,
whose hillsides echo
with the laughter of children,
whose grass is green
with rain that just fell;
A land that knows only light.

And touched by that dream
of a world’s golden shield,
I awakened to life
in a glorious field,
birdsong still carried on rays of the Sun,
to Mid-summer’s day
I was borne.