A pause on the road

I may try to ignore it, but I feel the energies shifting around me.  It hasn’t really been summer for weeks.  We had three weeks of our worst heat and humidity at the beginning of August, after a comparatively mild summer; when it broke, driven away by tropical storms drifting up the Atlantic coast, I [...]

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How to scare the bejeebies out of a cockatiel, or, nature awareness at home

 I was getting ready to pop into the shower for my morning ablutions when I heard both my boys, Sandro and Rembrandt, racketing around and squawking.  I hurried down the hall, wondering what was causing all this mad flapping and outcry, and was as shocked as they were to see acrow trying to perch on the windowsill, [...]

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Earth Day

I had nothing profound to say about Earth Day, though it has been in my thoughts; one can only quote Mary Oliver so many times. *g*
Then William Harryman gave me the perfect image, with a modicum of words: This is our Earth.
I can also quote Julian of Norwich: “And he showed me a [...]

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The sound of the Wheel turning

It’s been raining for months, it seems–not so, of course, but it’s been overcast for much of the past week, with rain coming in on Monday night.  Still, as I plodded to the bus stop yesterday, I felt it–the shift.  Only two weeks till Beltaine, and the energies are changing.  It’s like listening to a [...]

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Life in sixty seconds

A short video that condenses the timescale of earthly evolution to one minute. Pay attention or you’ll miss the invention of writing.
Thanks to Integral Options Cafe for the link!

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Report from the trenches

Very busy at work today–tasks left over from yesterday plus a new shipment to process.  To quote my boss, “YUCK!”
On the plus side, I have a copy of Rilke’s Duino Elegies, as translated by Edward Snow, and three pre-programmed Christmas stations on Pandora.  I was amazed by Rilke’s New Poems and wowed by his Sonnets to [...]

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Budding in winter

The neighborhood where I live, and the downtown area where I work, both have a lot of tulip magnolias.  There’s a particularly splendid one just a few blocks from home, on my daily walk to work; the three weeks or so of its April blossoming are the high point of my spring.
Because the beauty of [...]

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What she said

“On the edge….”

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Between the darkness and the light

As I walked home yesterday, in the hour just after sunset, I came up the hill to the old townhouse where our apartment is and saw, in the house next door to ours, lights.  White lights.  On wreaths in the second floor windows, and on a tree, a Christmas tree, I suppose, in the living [...]

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How to set a butterfly free

If you read her earlier post, don’t miss Julie Zickefoose’s follow-up on the monarch butterfly that cocooned in her home.  It just might make you cry, but it’ll be worth it.

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