A finch sat on the chimney top this morning waving his song courageously loud. LOUD – as in the whole neighborhood could hear it! Perhaps if I sat on chimney tops I would also feel courageous? Or is it this, the song (the EXPLOSION of…
I walked into sunshine this morning and hung the porch carpet, heavy with raindrops on the old porch rail. Drips immediately clustered and fell by the hundreds, releasing the carpet from the prison of their weightiness. I stood and watched, and wondered, “How can…
It’s wild out here. Predictable and unpredictable in the same different minute. I never know who or what will buzz or fly by – and the wind is his own world, teasing and disappearing on a whim. The other morning I found a gold…
Why do you sing so freely little wren? As if there are no worries. If you never fear the rain or wind could it be you are right – the song is always the right choice for the living?…
I once heard someone say, “Moments are all we have…” and I’ve been rolling it over and over in my mind since. A moment, a space, a tiny box of time handed to me over, and over, and over, and over. A moment…
It pulls us, the safe & it pulls us, the WILD… we’re a small part big and a BIG part child!…
Something moves from the eye to the soul when we look on purpose. The more I look for it, the more beauty I see.…
The dead sea is dead because the water flows in, but never out. More and more is collected but it simply sits and stagnates. And, weirdly enough, the dead sea is even shrinking! Collect. Collect. Collect. Keep. Shrink. Obviously this doesn’t work well. To thrive there needs…
I’ve heard (*) the greatest life lessons are infinite patience and never-ending persistence. In this era of short, quick and immediate, infinite patience and never-ending persistence feel both frustrating and refreshing. Long winded. Glacier like in movement. So. VERY. SLOW. We often want to gulp at…
