Showing posts with label nature. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nature. Show all posts

Thursday, June 26, 2025

She Said Hello

                                    She Said Hello

                                    She said 'Hello, I’m digging
                                    sand nests' and handed
                                    out shovels.

                                    Seagulls lurked nearby
                                    shouting manic laughter
                                    keeping an eye open
                                    for unattended food.

                                    Farther along the beach,
                                    six shrieking dervishes
                                    flirt with the water’s edge.

                                    And the kelp garlands
                                    strewn across rocks
                                    host a caucus of starlings.

                                                        -Kathryn Harper



Tuesday, June 24, 2025

62!

 "The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been." 

--Madeleine L'Engle

This birthday I decided to pull three cards from the Sufi Wisdom Oracle deck. I held the deck for a few moments and breathed, while listening to meditative music. I felt into Presence, touching the stillness, and relaxed. Remember Stereograms? This is a spiritual equivalent. Then I pulled three cards. They are lovely, especially because the three of them speak to the same theme: trusting love and life; releasing defenses and yielding; the assumption that the universe is mostly benevolent.

Friday, June 20, 2025

Happy Solstice


I was born a few days after summer solstice, and I have always thrived on light.

Very soon I will visit a place where the sun shines about 23 hours a day this time of year. Alaska!

This summer I ease into trusting potential. I embrace the new and stretch into awareness. I celebrate this experience. 

Saturday, June 14, 2025

Desert People

 "I think there are desert people and then there is everyone else. It takes something specific to flourish in the desert, to find its beauty obvious, to take root and weather the dry heat, the epic and swift flash floods. Only certain people figure out how to blossom in a landscape that wears its bones on the outside, where scorpions wander in the front door and tarantulas have migrating seasons." - E.A. Hanks


Wednesday, April 30, 2025

A Sterner Sense of Justice

 “Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.”

--Wendell Berry