“There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story.”
– Linda Hogan
Tag Archives: nature
wcw – the space we choose
“I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it.”
– William Shakespeare
wcw – more than lucky
“If you have two friends in your lifetime, you’re lucky. If you have one good friend, you’re more than lucky.”
– S.E. Hinton
Sunday Snapshot: with a song in my heart
“A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.”
– Chinese Proverb
wcw – look to your roots
“Go spend time with the aspen trees. They’ll tell you how it works. They’ll tell you to look to your roots for energy. They’ll tell you there’s warmth below the surface.”
– Kaya McLaren
into the morning sky – poems from the sunroom
Morning Birdsong
I close my eyes
and listen -
just listen -
stilling the noise
inside.
Geese honking past,
the woodpecker tapping,
even a rooster chimes in
once in a while.
A low rhythmic undertone -
who - oo - woo woo woo
And on top the songs of
dozens of birds
run counterpoint -
eee eee eee eee eee
ee-ya ee-ya ee-ya eee
chee chee chee chee chee
a trill scale, a short staccato,
a long low calling that carries
across the water.
Layer after layer
of birdsong
offered up
into the morning sky.
- ljh 4/14/17
Sunday Snapshot: everything you bring to the world
“The Turtle’s teachings are so beautiful. So very special. It teaches us that everything you are, everything you need and everything you bring to the world is inside you, not external, and you carry it with you, and are not limited to a place, space or time.”
– Eileen Anglin
Sunday Snapshot: into the peace of wild things
“When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief. I come into the presence of still water. And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.”
– Wendell Berry
