Life
Same
The light that reflects so sharply…
Read MoreWren
I was still enough to hear the sound of the wren…
Read MoreI will get lost
I will go walking amid the fragrant grasses…
Read MoreBudding and dying
And then we have nature…
Read MoreThe world in a square foot of ground
Why leave when there’s a city…
Read MoreThe flower of a strawberry
Have you ever looked at the flower of a strawberry…
Read MoreAnd it was enough
This morning I woke and saw the tree…
Read MoreAll from the same
That flower, this soil, our bird, your pond…
Read MoreLet settle
I will return…
Read MoreIf I don’t smile
All this stuff and status is for nothing…
Read MoreInside where
In stillness I journey inside…
Read MoreThe river
The river flows from the mountains to the sea…
Read MoreThat part of
It is enough to love the flower
of the sarsparilla or the strawberry…
Same Sun
We fight for money and oil and a parking space yet we forget
the same Sun also rises on Mars.
It’s there
It’s there beneath everything…
Read MoreAfter forgetfulness
When the world is intent on forgetfulness…
Read MoreFrom earth…
Here I am, sitting on my plastic
Muskoka chair…
There is our moment
Between the eternal water and the eternal sky, there is our moment.
Read MoreOf me
The grassy hillside is dotted with new maples…
Read MoreThe vital things
Perhaps now is the moment to drop what we call important…
Read MoreSurprise
The moment when reality breaks through the skin and bumps into the heart…
Read MoreThe most true things
I’d like to describe the blossom as I reach the house but the reality is…
Read MoreThe rest was distraction
The most important thing I did today was notice how green the grass is when the sun shines. The rest was distraction.
Read MoreThe baby maple
There’s something lovely about the baby maple in the driveway gravel.
Read MoreMy place among you
I close the door behind me and descend into your world…
Read MoreReturn to love
How can I fail to fall back in love…
Read MoreRemembering the still dawns
Remembering the still dawns with their flat lakes and sturdy trees…
Read MoreSteering wheel
My drive home is improved…
Read MoreThere is nothing now but sparrow
One evening, my mind full of stuff, compressed, buzzing, hot, I step outside and hear the sparrow…
Read MoreA woodpecker once told me
A woodpecker once told me…
Read MoreButtercup
I will wade ankle-deep into the squashy boggy lands…
Read MoreWhere did you come from?
Bird, where did you come from…
Read MoreWhat is before?
What is that moment before the breeze?
Read MoreAcceptance
The rock behind my house has been there a million years…
Read MoreEvery year the tree
Every year the tree awakes…
Read MoreOut of that stillness
I came home and stood still…
Read MoreRejoices greenly
On one of those gray days, those fog days…
Read MoreSea of smile
Behind it all…is the sea of smile.
Read MoreBack
Back home where the air fills with pine and loam…
Read MoreReturned
Like the white daisy…
Read MoreCoffee cup
They say it’s just a coffee cup…
Read MoreBut then we see a bud
We worry about next Tuesday…
Read MoreStep outside into the real world
Step outside into the real world and leave behind…
Read MoreStormy, diamond
On days when my mind is stormy…
Read MoreThe hoodie
My problems today are like that stained blue hoodie…
Read MoreThe light shining red
Instead of Netflix or salt and vinegar chips…
Read MoreSettle
As the sun sets and the chill rises, I sit still and let the world settle in me.
Read MoreNoticing is enough
The tiniest tweet, the first yellow flower, the south-west wind…
Read MoreInside, outside
Inside I am still, propped by pillows, outside the hemlocks wave in the wind. How to be. Framed.
Read MoreAnd one of those things
Deep inside is stillness and love…
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