I Would Rather Be...
Living in a grass-is-greener, anywhere-but-here, mode can particularly unsatisfying.
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Easing the Journey Through Shadow & Light
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- Sep 7
- 3 min
Practicing Ease: The Great Heart of a Whale
When a blue whale dives deep their heart slows way, way down: it is a whole......different......mode......of......being.
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- Jun 21
- 2 min
Arriving, an Animal and an Ark
Three poems: two are about journeys, all three about the convolutions of hope.
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- May 17
- 3 min
The Ocean of Longing
...the ocean of longing shifts through me, the blessed inner star of navigation moves in the dark sky above...
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- Mar 15
- 3 min
A World. I Am a World.
Think millefiori meets interplanetary/biologist/geologist/exquisitely talented glass artist!
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- Feb 15
- 1 min
You Come Too
It has been a day when the memory of a poem--a simple poem, almost a prayer-- elicits gratitude.
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- Nov 2, 2022
- 1 min
Still There Is Much That Is Fair
It's too easy to get caught up in the negativity and anger that surrounds us these days. So today I share images of things fair and simple.
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- Oct 19, 2022
- 3 min
Leaves Falling...On Us
Sometimes they fall on us--that's always fun--but they rarely land exactly where we think they will.
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- Oct 12, 2022
- 4 min
Time of Wonder
His prose is delightful, incorporating a sing-song repetition, rooted in the rhythms--and surprises--of nature and time.
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- Oct 5, 2022
- 3 min
Feet On the Ground
But the adventurous part took over. So I headed outside before I even read the article...
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- Aug 3, 2022
- 4 min
Beginner's Fingers, Beginner's Mind
From this perspective, to be a beginner is a gift. And what a wonderful way to approach the world, other people and our own psyches.
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- Jul 21, 2022
- 3 min
From Before Always
Coupled with the beauty & incredible age of those mountains, the silence offered us a way to slip into a different sense of timelessness.
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- Jul 13, 2022
- 3 min
Indra's Web
An infinite, cosmic web of interconnection, where every juncture of the threads is a jewel.
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- May 18, 2022
- 4 min
Fledgling
There was a whir of wings, a little flash of grey and white, and a tiny bird landed on the outer edge of the deck. We held our breaths.
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- Apr 20, 2022
- 4 min
The Thing with Feathers
After all these years I'm still amazed when those minuscule seeds grow into plants hundreds of times bigger than their infant selves.
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- Apr 13, 2022
- 3 min
Fawn
There are deer, birds, foxes, wildflowers and more. But you have to look. Lawrence looks with eyes that see things others tend to pass by.
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- Mar 2, 2022
- 3 min
Let the Lynx Come In
The boy is nervous about wild animals that might be stalking around outside. Yet when he hears scratching at the door, he opens it, a bit.
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- Feb 23, 2022
- 4 min
Eyes of the Wild
What really caught my attention was a photo of a wolf. Especially the eyes. Intense. Deep. Totally present. Totally alive.
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- Jan 5, 2022
- 4 min
This Magical Brightness
But, oh! it was lovely Monday morning. The stillness. The simplicity. The muffled slowing down of the world.
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- Nov 3, 2021
- 3 min
Silence: Three (Very Short) Stories
On the backside of that hill the incessant noise of traffic and construction was buffered out…so we could drink in the silence as well.
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