Birds

Life Abounds

August 16, 2011

In the city now, on my back porch as the morning sun crests the horizon.  Chipmunk scurries across patio onto stump beside fire pit.  Butterfly flutters by in morning welcome.  Squirrels scurry and chatter: Morning has broken!  Bustling birds chirp and sing.  Tireless crickets chirr.  Breeze gently sways branches and leaves.  Bees alight upon blossoms.  [...]

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I Will Soar

April 26, 2011

What is this notion in my head that I need more time?  I have more time than most.  I have intentionally made it so.  Yet, now, I am pushing myself out of the nest. It’s time!  Spread your wings and fly! No!  Wait!  I need a little more time! Come on, baby, spread your wings [...]

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New Life – Baby Birds

April 12, 2011

“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” Albert Einstein Related Posts:Life AboundsBreaking Dawn Dry Spells

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It’s the Little Things

February 17, 2011

I have a practice that I am incorporating into my day increasingly.  The practice takes as little as 45 seconds to complete. Let me give you a couple of examples as to how it works.  The other day I stepped out onto my balcony and saw hundreds of red-winged black birds foraging in the horse [...]

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Breaking Dawn

November 3, 2010

“One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.”  Kahlil Gibran Related Posts:Life AboundsNew Life – Baby BirdsDry Spells

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Dry Spells

October 18, 2010

“There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination.”  Ralph Waldo Emerson How often do you get dry spells in your creative, spiritual, personal or professional life?  I get them often.  Either I get frustrated and stay stuck for a while or I use dry times [...]

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Treat the Earth Well

September 22, 2010

“Treat the earth well:  it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children.  We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors, we borrow it from our Children.”  Ancient Indian Proverb Related Posts:How to Improve the WorldDry SpellsSweet Baby Wren

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Mud-luscious

August 12, 2010

“The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.”  E.E. Cummings “Clay.  It’s rain, dead leaves, dust, all my dead ancestors.  Stones that have been ground into sand.  Mud.  The whole cycle of life and death.”  Martine Vermeulen quotes “All this tangles from a black muck soil, a black muck matted like a mud-sopped rag, a muck without [...]

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Sweet Baby Wren

August 11, 2010

“Only from the heart can you touch the sky.”  Rumi Related Posts:Let Your Heart Break Open and ExpandMagical ThinkingOsprey Acrobatics

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Contemplate the Beauty

June 7, 2010

“Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.  There is a symbolic as well as actual beauty in the migration of the birds, the ebb and flow of the tides, the folded bud ready for the spring.  There is something infinitely healing in [...]

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