Let a Joy Keep You

a spring song

2012-03-02T11:36:00.000-05:00

the wind is sighing gently

through the pines, and everywhere

trees are greening,

smudges of new against the sky.

i hear careful rustlings above me

and lift my head in time

to see a tip of squirrel’s tail

as she slips into her nest of oak leaves.

the pine affords her twining branches

for anchor - the oak a myriad

of stuffs for nesting, and the

spring brings forth new life.

a dove coos, far off, and now

the ever-present cardinal song,

his spring song — only in spring.

what other season so aptly

sings the hope of life

from death?

back to the fuschia.

2012-02-28T12:23:00.000-05:00

spring azaleas outside my bedroom window.
they fill the room with a glorious pinkness this time of year...

a button, a scrap of spider's web, and picasso, on art.

2012-02-25T09:42:00.002-05:00

"The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web."

— Pablo Picasso

good morning...

2012-02-21T08:30:00.001-05:00

good morning,

fresh, cool, breeze;

good morning,

windchimes singing;

good morning,

raucous jays and lovesick cardinals;

good morning,

blue expanse, reaching to forever;

good morning,

joy.

(linking to dVerse poets pub)

seeing things.

2012-02-19T19:59:00.004-05:00

Is it just me, or does this gate latch have a distinctly avian appearance?

(linking to macro monday)

rain and mist...

2012-02-17T15:39:00.001-05:00

...with just a hint of sun.

i couldn't see the sun, actually, but it showed up in this photo, anyway.

i like to think that it was waiting there for me, the whole time...

pink tulips

2012-02-15T09:57:00.002-05:00

"You believe
In God, for your part?—ay? that He who makes,
Can make good things from ill things, best from worst,
As men plant tulips upon dunghills when
They wish them finest."

E. B. Browning—Aurora Leigh. Bk. II.

(sharing this with deb, "at our table")

for hannah.

2012-02-13T09:05:00.003-05:00

sometimes life is held by the finest thread of waiting,

held by the hope of love and mercy

and all things good.

sometimes we wait breathlessly for impossible news,

for a miracle from the One who brings forth the sky,

new every morning,

who opens the bud of the trumpet vine

and holds us all together in this dance

of light and darkness

which is life in this world.

sometimes faith

is all we have.

(Would you join me in prayer for a beautiful young woman in our community, fighting for her life after a tragic accident Sunday? Her name is Hannah.)

2/18/12 Hannah Grace Kelley went to heaven today. Our prayers continue to be with her family and all who loved her.

looking from the outside, in.

2012-02-09T13:42:00.001-05:00

i spend a lot of time looking out through windows...

but on this day i viewed things from a different perspective.

it was grainy and flaking and faded.

but it still held a lovely reflection of beauty,

and do you see those pinpoints of light?

i think they were fireflies...

sometimes a tail comes in handy...

2012-02-07T13:36:00.000-05:00

...especially when you're taking an afternoon nap.

in other news... i had a small skin cancer removed from my lip last week, which somehow necessitated about six stitches and a bandage that looked like an adolf hitler mustache. my family has been alternately saluting me and snickering at me. yes, that's the kind of respect i get around here...

also, i am wearing summer clothes. that's right, SUMMER CLOTHES. is it too much to ask to get a few months of boot weather around here? (of course i realize that cold weather in florida means fiercely cold temps for you fellow bloggers who reside in more northern climes, but you'd be willing to sacrifice for me, right?) I mean, you guys suffer through evil winters so you can enjoy glorious summers, and we suffer through evil summers so we can enjoy glorious winters. isn't that the way this is supposed to work?

(p.s. i'm wearing my boots anyway, as i write this. just as a matter of principle.)

scenes from the garden on a winter afternoon

2012-02-06T17:39:00.000-05:00

I realize this doesn't look much like winter.

It doesn't feel much like winter either, even for Florida.

But to quote a famous ancient Roman:

"If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need."

— Cicero

(Does it count as a library if you have books scattered throughout your home in a variety of ragtag bookshelves? Does it count as a garden if you have a few potted plants and whatever springs up naturally in your back yard?)

real or not real?

2012-02-05T10:29:00.004-05:00

Real. Although I think it looks like a tissue paper rose.

I also think it's a bit creepy, like Miss Havisham's table in Great Expectations:

I crossed the staircase landing, and entered the room she indicated. From that room, too, the daylight was completely excluded, and it had an airless smell that was oppressive. A fire had been lately kindled in the damp old-fashioned grate, and it was more disposed to go out than to burn up, and the reluctant smoke which hung in the room seemed colder than the clearer air - like our own marsh mist. Certain wintry branches of candles on the high chimneypiece faintly lighted the chamber: or, it would be more expressive to say, faintly troubled its darkness. It was spacious, and I dare say had once been handsome, but every discernible thing in it was covered with dust and mould, and dropping to pieces. The most prominent object was a long table with a tablecloth spread on it, as if a feast had been in preparation when the house and the clocks all stopped together. An epergne or centrepiece of some kind was in the middle of this cloth; it was so heavily overhung with cobwebs that its form was quite undistinguishable; and, as I looked along the yellow expanse out of which I remember its seeming to grow, like a black fungus, I saw speckled-legged spiders with blotchy bodies running home to it, and running out from it, as if some circumstances of the greatest public importance had just transpired in the spider community.

I heard the mice too, rattling behind the panels, as if the same occurrence were important to their interests. But, the blackbeetles took no notice of the agitation, and groped about the hearth in a ponderous elderly way, as if they were short-sighted and hard of hearing, and not on terms with one another.

These crawling things had fascinated my attention and I was watching them from a distance, when Miss Havisham laid a hand upon my shoulder. In her other hand she had a crutch-headed stick on which she leaned, and she looked like the Witch of the place.

"This," said she, pointing to the long table with her stick, "is where I will be laid when I am dead. They shall come and look at me here."

With some vague misgiving that she might get upon the table then and there and die at once, the complete realization of the ghastly waxwork at the Fair, I shrank under her touch.

"What do you think that is?" she asked me, again pointing with her stick; "that, where those cobwebs are?"

"I can't guess what it is, ma'am."

"It's a great cake. A bride-cake. Mine!"

— Charles Dickens, from Chapter 11, Great Expectations

Okay, maybe it's not quite that creepy. Dickens did have a way with words, didn't he?

(linking to macro monday)

imaginings...

2012-02-01T08:57:00.000-05:00

trumpet vines in the mist and fog. a rusty fence. weathered wood. nothing much, in the grand scheme of things, but still i like to look at it. it makes me feel comforted, like looking at an illustration in a children's book, about mice who run a bake shop. (their specialty is carrot cake.) i think they live in a cottage surrounded by a worn fence, draped in trumpet vines...

the azaleas are blooming...

2012-01-30T12:31:00.000-05:00

...and they always make me think of my grandmother.

an observation.

2012-01-27T13:19:00.000-05:00

have you noticed how

the weathered, dying things possess

a chaotic richness,

a color borne from loss,

a patina of dignity

unknown (or unnoticed)

by the crass sheen of

perfection?

i picked some flowers for you...

2012-01-25T08:42:00.001-05:00

...to thank you for all your warm and kind and funny comments on my anniversary post. I've been offline for a few days... sick again, but distracting myself with The Hunger Games trilogy, which my daughter has been badgering me to read for about a month.

Just a small note of warning if you're thinking about reading it - it's completely addicting. Which partly explains my lack of visits to your lovely blogs.

I'm on the third book, so I ought to resurface, soon...

giving thanks for a walk on the beach...

2012-01-23T10:04:00.000-05:00

...with my best friend.
(it's our 29th anniversary today.)

Loving is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

garden musings...

2012-01-20T15:09:00.001-05:00

it's been a beauty of a day... warm sun, cool breeze, the dog sniffing things out in the garden and me, meandering about with the camera or sitting with notebook and pencil, woolgathering.

don't you just love that word?

i don't think this spider indulges in much woolgathering, however. he strikes me as an arachnid with ambition.

and speaking of ambition, i need to do some laundry and wash my hair.

not to mention, tackle a small mountain of odious paperwork.

perhaps the garden spider would lend me some of his resolve?

i led them with cords of human kindness...

2012-01-18T11:21:00.003-05:00

there are times when the pain of life obliterates its color —

when quiet waters seem a thing of the past

and the heart cries

"forsaken."

and then love arrives by post.

in living color.

"red canoe," by canadian artist emily wierenga.

(my humble camera does not do justice to her art.)
to view more of emily's portfolio, visit her etsy store, canvas child.

(linking today, with emily's blog community, imperfect prose)

a sunset with emily dickinson

2012-01-17T15:22:00.000-05:00

We learn in the retreating
   How vast an one
Was recently among us.
   A perished sun
Endears in the departure
   How doubly more
Than all the golden presence
   It was before!

— Emily Dickinson

(from her Complete Poems, 1924; Part Four: Time and Eternity; LXXXIV)

because i need some light and color in my days...

2012-01-14T20:00:00.000-05:00

(linking to macro monday)

a lament.

2012-01-14T19:12:00.001-05:00

i have this pain in my gut
and lately it almost never
goes away
and it makes me afraid
of life and death,
both —
and i've been here before
but
i never get used to the darkness
and he says he will
go before me
and be with me,
God does,
but sometimes it doesn't feel
like that
so i tell him.
he felt like that too,
once.

"my God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"

do pink clouds have silver linings too?

2012-01-12T12:12:00.000-05:00

Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint.

— Don Marquis

(American humorist and journalist)

mary oliver, on the uses of sorrow...

2012-01-10T11:27:00.000-05:00

Someone I loved once gave me

a box full of darkness.

It took me years to understand

that this, too, was a gift.

— Mary Oliver

(The Uses of Sorrow, from her book Thirst, Beacon Press, Boston, 2006)

giving thanks... for your friendship

2012-01-08T09:46:00.003-05:00

"Friendship is being with the other in joy and sorrow,

even when we cannot increase the joy or decrease the sorrow.

It is a unity of souls that gives nobility and sincerity to love.

Friendship makes all of life shine brightly.

Blessed are those who lay down their lives for their friends."

— Henri Nouwen

(linking to sunday and postcards from paradise)

today

2012-01-03T18:09:00.003-05:00

today i am sad.
today i am sick.
today i am in pain.
today i cried.
today is like so many others...

yet,
today i am loved.
today i have known compassion.
today my feet are warm in fuzzy boots.
today i laughed.
today is like so many others...

happy new year!

2012-01-01T00:51:00.001-05:00

And He who sits on the throne said, "Behold, I am making all things new." And He said, "Write, for these words are faithful and true."

Revelation 21:5

(linking to Sunday, at jumping tandem)

a dog, a flowerpot, and a sunny day.

2011-12-29T11:51:00.001-05:00

oh, and some cool crisp weather. what more could i ask for?

on Christmas favors...

2011-12-26T14:26:00.000-05:00

I didn't take many photos on Christmas day...

...but I can say that I felt a bit less like a reflection of my former self.

and there were presents (always a plus)

even the dog got her share.

( I did make it, later in the day, to my mother's house for the crazy chaos that is my family's Christmas celebration. There was catching up with old friends, and congratulations on my nephew's engagement, plus remote control tanks and helicopters, and thanks to my funny and generous brother, the gift of a camera for my daughter, the receiving of which involved an elaborate re-enactment of an old German spy movie, complete with script and costumes. Glad I didn't miss that ;)

I'm exhausted, but grateful.

still here...

2011-12-24T09:06:00.000-05:00

albeit a bit fuzzy around the edges...

...but ready and waiting, all the same.

But the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid. I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people. Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you;

he is Christ the Lord."

Luke 2: 10-11

(Your words and thoughts and prayers of support have meant the world to me.

May you all be blessed, as you have blessed.)

i believe, help me in my unbelief.

2011-12-19T10:09:00.000-05:00

still so very ill... uncertain where this is leading. perhaps this is more appropriate for the season than i realize. i am walking in darkness, waiting for light.

"the people living in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of the shadow of death a light has dawned."

matthew 4:16

(p.s. for more little birds that sing a message of hope, visit elk at red or gray art)

we three kings...

2011-12-16T07:30:00.000-05:00

"The magi, as you know, were wise men--wonderfully wise men--who brought gifts to the Babe in the manger. They invented the art of giving Christmas presents."

O. Henry, from The Gift of the Magi

waiting...

2011-12-14T08:49:00.000-05:00

This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone.

~Taylor Caldwell

polaroid

2011-12-12T20:37:00.000-05:00

This is me with my dog, Snappy, in the Illinois woods, circa 1965 or so. Probably my dad took the Polaroid, forever capturing for me the coziness of a red knitted hat, the earthy crunch of oak leaves underfoot, and the lovely warmth of dog kisses on a chilly December day.

why i am partial to stars...

2011-12-11T10:12:00.003-05:00

i love everything red at christmastime... and i am partial to stars...

perhaps because they sing:

In the darkness something was happening at last. A voice had begun to sing. It was very far away and Digory found it hard to decide from what direction it was coming. Sometimes it seemed to come from all directions at once. Sometimes he almost thought it was coming out of the earth beneath them. Its lower notes were deep enough to be the voice of the earth herself. There were no words. There was hardly even a tune. But it was, beyond comparison, the most beautiful noise he had ever heard. It was so beautiful he could hardly bear it. The horse seemed to like it too; he gave the sort of whinny a horse would give if, after years of being a cab horse, it found itself back in the old field where it had played as a foal, and saw someone whom it remembered and loved coming across the field to bring it a lump of sugar.

"Gawd!" said the Cabby. "Ain't it lovely?"

Then two wonders happened at the same moment. One was that the Voice was suddenly joined by other voices, more voices than you could possibly count. They were in harmony with it, but far higher up the scale: cold, tingling, silvery voices. The second wonder was that the blackness overhead, all at once, was blazing with stars. They didn't come out gently, one by one, as they do on a summer evening. One moment there had been nothing but darkness; next moment a thousand, thousand points of light leaped out: single stars, constellations, and planets, brighter and bigger than any in our world. There were no clouds. The new stars and the new voices began at exactly the same time. If you had seen and heard it, as Digory did, you would have felt quite certain that it was the stars themselves who were singing, and that it was the first Voice, the deep one, which had made them appear and made them sing.

— C.S. Lewis, from The Magician's Nephew

a red mitten

2011-12-09T20:18:00.002-05:00

My grandmother made this ornament to celebrate my first Christmas with my husband, nearly thirty years ago. I love the bright red mitten with its gold trim and its message of togetherness. We've weathered some of life's heavy storms since those early days in our marriage, but like this little handmade ornament, we're still hanging in there.

"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength,

while loving someone deeply gives you courage."

—Lao Tzu

on the comfort of a furry friend...

2011-12-07T16:21:00.000-05:00

"Also, if two lie down together, they will keep warm. But how can one keep warm alone?"

Ecclesiastes 4:11

(this is also the basenji credo.)

in keeping with yesterday's theme...

2011-12-07T07:12:00.000-05:00

i can dream, can't i?

2011-12-06T08:35:00.009-05:00

I'm dreaming of a white Christmas,

Just like the ones I used to know,

Where the tree tops glisten

And children listen

To hear sleighbells in the snow...

~Irving Berlin

okay, so it's not very christmas-y...

2011-12-05T13:22:00.003-05:00

...but isn't it sort of miraculous in its own (slightly creepy) way?

(linking to macro monday)

a promise...

2011-12-03T12:40:00.001-05:00

"Listen to Me... you whom I have upheld since you were conceived, and have carried since your birth. Even to your old age and gray hairs I am He, I am He who will sustain you. I have made you and I will carry you; I will sustain you and I will rescue you."

Isaiah 46:3-4

... and i am holding onto it.

(linking to Sunday, at Jumping Tandem)

life is a tangle, sometimes

2011-12-02T16:24:00.002-05:00

i know the sky is out there,

wide and blue and free —

if only i could get an unobstructed

view.

on mysterious gifts from unexpected corners

2011-11-30T09:59:00.003-05:00

a little brown sparrow flew in the other day, bearing gifts.

she told me the gifts were from a curious acorn, which i found intriguing...

still more intriguing was this mysterious tin, filled with cobalt blue packets of english tea,

and a large blue and white china mug, bedecked with birds and acorns,

waiting to be filled to the brim.

i suspect my gift may have been the work of a hobbit, as it arrived on her birthday, and those of us familiar with hobbits know that it is their habit to give gifts to others on that day.

whether hobbit or human, the giver shared her faith as well, that despite my present circumstances of ill health, one day we will share tea together, in person.

thanks, jodi

♥

light through stained glass

2011-11-25T11:03:00.001-05:00

"People are like stained-glass windows...

...They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in,

their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within."

— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

sundry gratitudes on the tuesday before thanksgiving (yes, this is the dr. jekyll to my previous mr. hyde post)

2011-11-22T19:14:00.000-05:00

for candlelight (and starfish.)

for a hawk who shared his feather :)

for a new journal to fill with heart and soul and dreams...

for footstools (and feet.)

for early morning walks in the garden and the smell of damp pine needles.

for hot tea on a cool november day.

for bird song.

for the white tip on my dog's tail.

for warm stockings.

for black-winged birds against a true blue sky.

for writing it all down.

for you.

thankful schmankful

2011-11-22T19:11:00.000-05:00

i know i'm supposed to be grateful,

and really, i am...

for so many things and people and mercies.

but lately i've been having a really hard time

with this endless loop of pain and sickness

and difficulties —

which has put me in a black mood.

the last two days, especially,

i've been feeling angry

and hateful

and like i just want to shut myself into a padded room somewhere

and scream until i can't scream anymore.

i'm sorry if this makes you sad on thanksgiving.

i have a happier post of things i'm grateful for,

which i'll post directly after this.

but somehow these two me's are existing in the same fragile body, right now,

and i just couldn't post the good

without the bad and the ugly.

it didn't seem honest.

somebody tell me a stupid joke. gallows humor cheerfully accepted.

anybody?

jacob's ladder...

2011-11-20T16:08:00.001-05:00

...or do you think it's charlotte's web?

(linking to recuerda mi corazon for postcards from paradise)

hello to you, from me

2011-11-18T12:59:00.000-05:00

I'm wearing my new birthday gift, from me, to me! Doesn't it look like a little bit of sunset around my neck? It was made by the very talented Tracy, of PranaLight, and you, too, can see her wonderful wares by visiting her blog and clicking on the link to her Etsy store. There's nothing like a bit of handmade jewelry (handmade anything, really!) to put a smile on my face :)

emily dickinson, on time and troubles

2011-11-17T11:26:00.001-05:00

They say that 'time assuages,' —

Time never did assuage;

An actual suffering strengthens,

As sinews do, with age.

Time is a test of trouble,

But not a remedy.

If such it prove, it prove too

There was no malady.

— Emily Dickinson

"Though I walk in the midst of trouble, you preserve my life...

the Lord will fulfill his purpose for me;

your love, O Lord, endures forever —

do not abandon the works of your hands."

Psalm 138: 7,8

through the looking glass

2011-11-15T10:27:00.000-05:00

For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face:

now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.

— I Corinthians 13:12

post-birthday gratitude

2011-11-13T15:41:00.000-05:00

for recycled light that sings when the wind blows ...

for purple-skirted petunias with white lace petticoats ...

for hand-copied books of poetry ...

... and hand-made birthday cards.

for love that surrounds me, even on the sickest days.

for another year of life.

finis, by e.e. cummings

2011-11-10T11:49:00.000-05:00

Over silent waters
                          day descending
                                                 night ascending
floods the gentle glory of the sunset
In a golden greeting
                            splendidly to westward
as pale twilight
                      trem-
                              bles
                                     into
                                           Darkness
comes the last light's gracious exhortation
                                                     Lifting up to peace
so when life shall falter
                                 standing on the shores of the
eternal
god
       May I behold my sunset
Flooding
            over silent waters

— e.e. cummings

on procrastination and the wonder of it all...

2011-11-07T11:26:00.000-05:00

here's a secret. i should be paying bills and making doctor appointments and doing laundry. instead, i'm looking at photos of seaweed. strange, bright, glistening orange vegetation from some mysterious underwater world. emerald sea-moss, washed up at my feet one brilliantly hot summer's day, to meet the lens of my camera.

and somehow the things to do take second place to the things which shout out "miracle!"

isn't that a wonder?

i wish i could write like carl sandburg

2011-11-05T20:47:00.001-04:00

The fog comes on little cat feet.

It sits looking over the harbor  and city on silent haunches and then moves on.

— Carl Sandburg

a cautionary "tail"

2011-11-03T07:13:00.000-04:00

She grew weary of their haughty stares and their beaks-in-the-air attitude, so she turned tail and headed back to the sandpipers on the other side of the seaweed...

autumn sunset

2011-11-01T10:24:00.000-04:00

because it's good to remember

the light and the glory

before the night falls

some shady rhyme for halloween

2011-10-31T09:36:00.000-04:00

it's only a shadow

i tell myself,

but it looks like a spider!

(or some evil elf)

or maybe like "wilson"

the soccer ball friend --

who in that old movie,

came to a bad end.

and speaking of endings,

i think it is time

to put out of its pain

this terrible rhyme!

rust-ic beauty

2011-10-27T17:34:00.000-04:00

I found this bead and wire ornament last christmas at a local craft gallery, and decided to hang it in the garden. It seemed like a good idea at the time, but the summer rains took their toll and it is now a rusty version of its former self. I think I like it better this way...

Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Way of Pain, by Wendell Berry

2011-10-26T10:53:00.003-04:00

(from The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry, Counterpoint Press, 1999)

1.
For parents, the only way
is hard. We who give life
give pain. There is no help.
Yet we who give pain
give love; by pain we learn
the extremity of love.

2.
I read of Abraham's sacrifice
the Voice required of him,
so that he led to the altar
and the knife his only son.
The beloved life was spared
that time, but not the pain.
It was the pain that was required.

3.
I read of Christ crucified,
the only begotten Son
sacrificed to flesh and time
and all our woe. He died
and rose, but who does not tremble
for his pain, his loneliness,
and the darkness of the sixth hour?
Unless we grieve like Mary
at His grave, giving Him up
as lost, no Easter morning comes.

4.
And then I slept, and dreamed
the life of my only son
was required of me, and I
must bring him to the edge
of pain, not knowing why.
I woke, and yet that pain
was true. It brought his life
to the full in me. I bore him
suffering, with love like the sun,
too bright, unsparing, whole.

fall in florida means beauty berries

2011-10-24T11:00:00.001-04:00

"I do not know how anyone can live without some small place of enchantment to turn to."

— Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

the city at night

2011-10-22T13:56:00.000-04:00

(distracting myself with photos from my archives...)

2011-10-20T12:32:00.000-04:00

going through a season of illness and pain.

sigh... the light feels very thin and scattered lately...

e.e. cummings, "i thank You God for most this amazing"

2011-10-18T16:38:00.001-04:00

i thank You God for most this amazing
day:for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and a blue true dream of sky;and for everything
which is natural which is infinite which is yes

(i who have died am alive again today,
and this is the sun's birthday;this is the birth
day of life and of love and wings;and of the gay
great happening illimitably earth)

how should tasting touching hearing seeing
breathing—lifted from the no
of all nothing—human merely being
doubt unimaginable You?

(now the ears of my ears awake and
now the eyes of my eyes are opened)

— e.e. cummings, from "XAIPE"

Don McLean - Waters of Babylon

2011-10-17T18:26:00.000-04:00

This song kept going through my head today...

envisioning...

2011-10-16T12:48:00.001-04:00

"God can do anything, you know—far more than you could ever imagine or guess or request in your wildest dreams! He does it not by pushing us around but by working within us, his Spirit deeply and gently within us."

Ephesians 3:20, The Message Bible

a bedtime story

2011-10-12T16:24:00.001-04:00

fairy lights and candles

on a dark and rainy night

highways lit to other worlds

just hidden from my sight

curtains closed, it's time for bed

snuff the candles, sleepyhead!

sovereign gifts

2011-10-09T11:41:00.001-04:00

it's raining sweetly,
a soft blanket of sound
orphaned by
last night's storm —
and the yellow leaves of
some unknown tree
are peeking out from the corner of
the red roof across the street,
a smudge of gold
beyond the naked oak branch
hanging half crazy from the
now-stilled wind.
and those sovereign leaves
are my reward for looking out
and up this morning —
a brightly gift of color
from the throne.

— leslie young
2011

2011-10-08T13:29:00.000-04:00

I try to make everyone's day a little more surreal.

— Calvin, via Bill Watterson

resolute

2011-10-04T10:35:00.001-04:00

it's just a weed growing by the sea,

nothing special, really,

but it turns its face

so staunchly

to the light

wendell berry and the peace of wild things on a bad day...

2011-10-01T17:53:00.001-04:00

The Peace of Wild Things

by Wendell Berry

When despair for the world grows in me

and I wake in the night at the least sound

in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,

I go and lie down where the wood drake

rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.

I come into the peace of wild things

who do not tax their lives with forethought

of grief. I come into the presence of still water.

And I feel above me the day-blind stars

waiting with their light. For a time

I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

just geraniums

2011-09-29T17:54:00.000-04:00

i love geraniums. they may be my favorite flower.

and this is the last plucky little bloom to survive

the wilting heat and humidity of florida's summer months.

i thought it deserved some recognition...

morning in the garden of light and shadow

2011-09-26T12:25:00.001-04:00

shadows stretch sleepy fingers

to touch the morning light,

waking up to dip their toes

in empty flowerpots

and slide over soot-smeared tins
of summer citronella —

sneaking out to tag trumpet-vine graffiti

on the staid wood fence

(linking to dVerse poets pub)

emily dickinson, on sunsets and the sea

2011-09-21T17:23:00.003-04:00

The Sea of Sunset

This is the land the sunset washes,

These are the banks of the Yellow Sea;
Where it rose, or whither it rushes,
These are the western mystery!

Night after night her purple traffic

Strews the landing with opal bales;
Merchantmen poise upon horizons,
Dip, and vanish with fairy sails.

— Emily Dickinson

(for deb and her mother)

moorhen love...

2011-09-19T14:57:00.000-04:00

these little guys have a face only a mother could love.

or perhaps this is dad? (moorhens are enlightened parents.)

"He will cover you with His feathers,

and under His wings you will find refuge;
His faithfulness will be your shield and rampart."
Psalm 91:4

(click on the photos to enlarge)

morning poem

2011-09-15T10:27:00.000-04:00

i watch the dog

watching the morning,

the thrum of cicadas singing in my ears

while shadows play

along the edges of things,

and a breath of autumn

whispers my name

a shine of rainbows...

2011-09-12T10:42:00.000-04:00

"I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands."
—Zora Neale Hurston

remembering...

2011-09-11T00:00:00.013-04:00

those who lost their lives

those who gave their lives that others might live

those who remain.

"I believe that man will not merely endure. He will prevail. He is immortal, not because He alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance." —William Faulkner

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(linking to dVerse poets' in memoriam)

autumn dreams...

2011-09-09T10:18:00.000-04:00

love is a red leaf
in the midst of a green world —
a whisper of fall

(linking to recuerda mi corazon for haiku my heart)

flightless

2011-09-07T13:02:00.001-04:00

they carried me away on dreams of flight,

the tattered remnants of

youth's wings

are now forever held,

in endless light

(linking to dVerse poet's pub)

giving thanks

2011-09-04T09:00:00.000-04:00

"From the fulness of His grace we have all received one blessing after another."

John 1:16

rememorari

2011-09-01T17:35:00.001-04:00

the flame remembers

what the heart has forgotten —

light conquers darkness.

(linking to recuerda mi corazon for haiku my heart)

intermission...

2011-08-28T16:36:00.000-04:00

feeling a bit blank these days...

perhaps the seeds of creativity need some empty space to grow?

so i'll just find a spot to vegetate for a bit, shall i?

and be back soon...

there is glory coming...

2011-08-23T19:46:00.001-04:00

...wait for it.

(linking with imperfect prose)

don't be afraid, only believe...

2011-08-22T10:57:00.000-04:00

Do not fear, for I am with you...

Isaiah 41:10

seaweed still life

2011-08-19T12:34:00.000-04:00

a morning prayer

2011-08-17T14:10:00.001-04:00

Satisfy us in the morning with Your unfailing love,

that we may sing for joy and be glad all our days.

Make us glad for as many days as You have afflicted us,

for as many years as we have seen trouble.

Psalm 90:14-15

on being an intermittent carnivore

2011-08-16T12:20:00.001-04:00

yesterday i ate a hamburger

and i did not die.

i ate french fries, too,
with ketchup.

last week my nutrition took
a distinctly liquid form —

and the week before that —
and the month before that.

is this a metaphor for life?
i don't know.

i just know that sometimes,
we get to live life
the way it was meant to be

and sometimes,
life sucks.

and i'm trying to be grateful
for the hamburgers along the way...

web-footed tourists

2011-08-13T16:50:00.000-04:00

everyone flocked
to the beaches,
lining up to find
their spot on the sand,
wading just
to the water's edge
to dip hot sandy feet
in the cool foam
and eye their neighbor's
umbrella

(photo credit goes to my husband, i think - we kept passing the camera back and forth on this day)

balancing act

2011-08-11T10:54:00.003-04:00

do you ever feel like

you're standing on one skinny little leg

trying to balance

the weight of the world?

(click on the photo to enlarge)

watching peace fall

2011-08-08T14:29:00.002-04:00

i walk in the grace
of a soft summer rain.
there is no pain in this moment.
the dog walks before me,
shunning my umbrella —
water drips gently from its edges
as the ibis shine white
against the greyness of the day.
mama duck swims with her brood
splashing out suddenly,
like children playing water games —
the old heron stands sentinel,
watching peace
fall
like
rain

(linking to the dVerse poetry community)