Life
Nothing
On some long days…
Read MoreThe courage to stand still
Some days I have the courage to stand still…
Read MoreRevealed
It’s like the brown bird in the brown leaves…
Read MoreSmall places
Let me find the small places…
Read MoreResults?
Did I do enough this week?…
Read MoreDoesn’t matter (that much)
The dry rock is rough and dusty…
Read MoreThen there’s moss
Then there’s moss…
Read MoreWhen I grow down
When I grow down…
Read MoreTiny
Have you ever loved something so much you want to cry?
Read MoreWhen the dust settles
It’s only when I’m still that the dust
of thought settles and I see again.
With the birds
Today I want to be with the birds and do bird things…
Read MoreThe sun comes out
I hope I never cease to be filled with wonder when after the rain, the sun comes out.
Read MoreBecome transparent
What if we become transparent to the world…
Read MoreComing home
Coming home isn’t just to a place…
Read MoreThe loam
Take me home to my place in the land…
Read MoreA productive day
Today I listened to the lake ice creak…
Read MoreLike a good animal
Like a good animal I lie down on the damp ground…
Read MoreThe seeds of spring are always
The seeds of spring are always…
Read MoreWhat’s next
When I’ve got my eyes on what’s next, I stumble over today.
Read MoreBig tiny bird
So curious, I reflect one breezy evening…
Read MoreNow
The setting sun…
Read MoreSticks
You’re carring a big pile of sticks…
Read MoreWater does
Every year around this time, water starts flowing downwards…
Read MoreWhen too much is not enough
When we’re wanting more,
when too much is not enough,
we find we’re running hard away from the home where everything already is.
Spring is
Under the snow the ferns grow ready because they know spring is.
Read MoreDead seed head
You, dead seed head who survived the winter…
Read MoreSink
I like to remember beneath the roiling waves of the stormy ocean…
Read MoreSoften
After a hard day on hard plastic…
Read MoreThe bird that flies upwards
The day we stop being awestruck
by the tiny bird that flies upwards through the trees, is the day we die a little.
Part
This evening I will close my laptop and go stay with the birds and the trees…
Read MoreClover
Amid the ice and mud I find a clover…
Read MoreClear as mud
The best and most important things won’t be named and defined…
Read MoreA cog
I want to be a cog in the world…
Read MoreUpside down
It is possible we’ve got it upside down and back to front?
Read MoreOne upon a time
Once upon a time I told myself a story in my head…
Read MoreThe bare tree
There’s something to learn from the bare tree in the snowy field.
Read MoreOutside ourselves
Outside our houses and outside ourselves we’re still and hundreds of lives announce themselves.
Read MoreJust look!
Just look how the light from the sun…
Read MoreRoar away
For the past few months I have driven from my house to town and back again…
Read MoreAnd let
Today I will sit and watch as the trees stand tall and let the wind bend them.
Read MoreStorm
A wonderful thing about a thunderstorm…
Read MoreAir
Get a taste of the air and sample the world…
Read MoreSqueezing the life out of juice
Busy squeezing the thrills and pleasures from our disappearing lives yet forgetting to open our hands to receive what’s already there.
Read MoreDo the birds realize?
Do the birds realize how much they help?
Read MoreChainge
Curious how in our lives of change…
Read MoreHome
Home is a place we can retreat to…
Read MorePlaces that grew
There are places we can’t leave behind because they get into our veins…
Read MoreLearning to swim
Learning to live is like learning to swim. It happens when you let go of the side.
Read MoreOn the ground
When I was very little I liked to lie on the ground amid the tall grasses…
Read MoreUnbelonged
Oh, you animal, soggy from the rain…
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