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Can you see the trunk swerving? The arms swaying? The head lifted towards the sun? Can you see the dance?
Some point to the Creator in Armageddon, apocalypses, and the purging of infidels. Some point to the Creator in tears falling upon another’s head, the human touch…..
Part 2 of being deaf enough to hear. I awoke this morning still pondering Beethoven’s Ode to Joy. The whisper was not yet finished.
At lunch, needing a break from the day, I went to my car to listen to my meditation…..
I read with delight a Mary Oliver poem on sunflowers in her new book Felicity. I stood before the sunflowers, as her poet’s voice urged, and started to listen. As I stood so silent before the sunflowers, a cacophony…..
I sat amazed at the most incredible giant, white, textured poofy cloud. Gorgeous. Without warning some mischievous little dark clouds, like a magic marker, drew a face on the cloud. Two eyes and either two lips or a mouth and mustache…..
In a texting and messaging kind of world it seems we’ve evolved into the use of short cut keys and emoticons to express our feelings. One has to laugh that it took us so long to develop the “technology.” The morning sky as I…..
The waterfall and river running echoed around me. For just a moment, as I watched the water swirl and dance around, over, and underneath the tiny leaf, I pondered “what if?” What if that is an image of the swirling energy around me?…..
In the midst of brown lifeless fingers three stand in life’s green. The trunk of the tree still breathed against my hand. If three are enough for the tree, then I shall count resiliency, love, and the tree itself…..
A treasured road in the fall and winter. Such a glorious dance of limbs and branches. Monday’s drive caught me by surprise as I noticed how green and beautiful was spring’s canopy. Oh I missed the dance of limbs and branches reaching…..
A much needed journey to Maxwell Wildlife Sanctuary in New Mexico. Given the vast number of birds there during migration, I thought surely it would be filled with nesting geese and other birds. The lake was empty save for less than a dozen…..
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