Welcome

Costa Rica, 2018

Who would you most like to meet here? 

Praise

Costa Rica, 2018

Set me free to praise

Set me free to swirl and sway

Oh Lord, hear my prayer

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Learning to Love

Curly Leaf Croton, May 2020

Chaotic jumble

defying simplicity

summer's vibrant gift

If I learn to love

my own chaotic jumble

the gift will be mine

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Watching and Waiting

Red Hibiscus at 6:18 a.m., May 2020

Red Hibiscus at 7:51 a.m., May 2020

Watch and wait in trust

something beautiful can bloom

right before your eyes

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Evening Walk

Wild Orchids, Spring 2020

Delicate flowers

arrest my rumination,

reviving wonder

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Magnolia

Magnolia, Friday May 22

Magnolia, Saturday May 23
 

Teach me to open, and then to open more.

"The very young woman can be charming and delightful and pretty but only a mature woman can be beautiful; and only a mature man can be strong enough to be tender." 

--Madeleine L'Engle, A Circle of Quiet

Quiet

White wildflowers (possible Bishop's Flower), Spring 2020

When the world is loud,

go where quiet blooms and breathes,

silence will find you

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Entering His World

Riley's World, May 2020

Another world waits,

the one he makes for himself

when the last bell rings

spray, smudge, layer, stamp

colors create galaxies

summer sets him free

Riley, May 2020

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Some Days

Pink Turk's Cap, May 2020

Some days when I wake 

grief is fresh, so I take it 

into morning light

Grief finds something soft,

like this pink that whispers "peace"

a new day begins

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May 22

Kitchen Still Life, May 2020

I turn the page on the kitchen calendar
and King Tut greets me -
a reminder of ancient mystery
on an ordinary day.

When a person died in ancient Egypt, their heart was weighed
to indicate their worthiness to enter the afterlife.
A worthy heart had the lightness of a feather.

Not Egyptian, not ancient, not chasing worthiness,
but something in me desires to live this day
with lightness of heart.

Consider the Lilies

Pink Day Lilies, May 2020

Side by side they bloom

vibrant, upright, bringing joy

to late springtime days

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Learning to See

Panda plant (kalanchoe tomentosa), May 2020

Teach me to recognize new growth.
Teach me to nestle and nurture it with gentleness.
What I so easily see in others, teach me to see in myself. 

Blue Sky

Cloud like a feather, Spring 2020

Teach me to look up

When the world of my heart feels 

Small and overwrought

Help me to be as 

Open and wide as the sky

Free again to dream

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Dragonfly

Dragonfly on aloe, May 2020

Dragonfly lands near

while I'm reading on the porch

my eyes leave the page

Attention moves to

 another story with my

iridescent guest

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Daisies

African Daisies, May 2020

The daisies didn't find their way here by accident.
They weren't carried by the wind or a bird to spring up like a wildflower.

My neighbor chose them for his garden. Selected, planted,
and nurtured along until they were established enough to bloom.

In their home beneath the oak tree, they get just enough filtered light,
and the rain splashes their petals and sinks down to their roots.

          Can I see that I haven't found my way here by accident?

          Someone chose me for this place I call home-

          I am chosen and nurtured by Love.

                    Can you see that you haven't found your way here by accident?
                    Someone chose you for the place you call home-
                    You are chosen and nurtured by Love.

Brightness

Yellow Cactus, May 2020

Brightness of blessing

Patient in the unfolding

Glowing from within

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Taking a New Path

Texas Prairie Nymph, Spring 2020

I walked to the right 

Instead of to the left 

and met this tiny treasure

in a neighborhood yard.

Surprise and delight were waiting 

to stir my sluggish heart.

Afternoon Rain

Rose and Pentas, Spring 2020

A soft fall it was

Landing in the rain-soaked nest

of waiting flowers.

A soft fall it was

Landing in arms of friends

cradled in sure love.

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The Smallest Things

Afternoon walk, Spring 2020

The smallest things can change everything. 

The smallest flower can change a landscape.

The smallest dose of love can change a day - or a life.

Evening Walk

Wild Onion, Spring 2020

Even small wildflowers get their season to bloom,
sending out delicate curlicues into the neighboring grasses.

Help me to recognize the curls of my own heart
so I might bloom and reach out in my own time.

Mother's Day 2020

Newly eclosed butterfly on turk's cap, May 2020

Blessed are the ones who lead us to nourishment.
Blessed are the ones who nurture our transformation.
Blessed are the ones who allow us to take our time.
Blessed are the ones who see our beauty.
Blessed are the ones who protect us when we are vulnerable.
Blessed are the ones who encourage us to spread our wings and take flight.

Morning Walk

Morning Walk, May 2020

I look beyond my shaded shelter.

The path ahead is framed in grace and light. 

Mulberry branches, 

unexpected canopy

gives shaded shelter.

When I raise my eyes,

the well worn path ahead is

framed in grace and light.

* Experimenting with Haiku.