Summit, Spirit, Sky: connect to community and creation!
Give thanks for what is old. Appreciate what has matured and seasoned. Take notice of lives and perspectives made venerable through insight and experience. Focus on an object, an artifact, whose purpose has become obscure or obsolete, but which is beautiful for its own sake, as a work of engineering and art. Appreciate an antique […]
How I long to see among dawn flowers, the face of God. ― Basho Song (video): I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking Forby U2 Mindful — Mary Oliver (From Why I Wake Early) Every day I see or hear something that more or less kills me with delight, that leaves me like a needle […]
Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.― Matsuo Bashô Choices— Tess GallagherI go to the mountain sideof the house to cut saplings,and clear a view to snowon the mountain. But when I look up,saw in hand, I see a nest clutched inthe uppermost branches.I don’t cut that one.I don’t cut the others […]
As Kingfishers Catch Fire — Gerard Manley Hopkins ~~ As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame; As tumbled over rim in roundy wells Stones ring; like each tucked string tells, each hung bell’s Bow swung finds tongue to fling out broad its name; Each mortal thing does one thing and the same: Deals out that […]
