I picked the tulips yesterday. In the early morning light, they were mirroring the colors in my art. Outside coming in, inside matching out. I was just reading (in David Hinton’s book, Hunger Mountain) about the Chinese graph for the word…
I took this photo at 5 AM. Early. Quiet. I’ve been waking up at that hour in the past few days because it’s already light out. It feels like: time to get up. The days at this time of year…
These plants are being discarded. NO! I DO NOT want them. Get out of my garden! There is a saying a friend of mine shared with me: ” If you throw the baby out with the bath water, don’t worry:…
What I see outside and what I’m doing inside… I look at water, day in and day out. And years ago when I used to spend long hours, day after day, sailing boats, I also would look at water. One…
I mean, really, what secrets are these ferns sharing??? So quiet… Yesterday, the topic of where you focus came up in my online art group. AND sure enough… there it was in the book I’m reading this morning. It’s so…
For some reason the phrase, “God is in the details” was running through my mind when I was looking at the glory of the trumpets on each of these daffodils. Resplendent. In a British gardening magazine I get, there was…
Unexpectedly, two friends arrived for the weekend this Friday. No, not the 2 pups. Not the 2 boats. Although all these were part of the good times together. I had been focussing in and down in when they arrived. My…
What about the opposite of feeling compelled to create no matter what? What about the opposite of being amazing at something? What about the opposite of going full speed? This morning I was reading Diana Wynne Jones description of Tolkien,…
Strange photo, right? Last winter, in an attempt to save energy, I inadvertently turned off the heat. It’s spring now and the bathroom pipes are being repaired – from the outside… But see how the house is “stripped”, and now…
Can you spot the boat? A small speck on the right, dipping into the fog. Almost hidden. The opposite of hidden? Open, honest. Vulnerable. Those are the words that are coming up lately for me. And I just read this…