Tess at Anchors andMasts tagged me for this meme.  The rules are:  People who are tagged start by thinking about 7 random facts/habits about themselves. Each player then must write about those seven things on their blog, as well as include these rules. Players then need to choose 7 people to tag and list their names. […]

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Love Poems to God, II, 22
You are the future,
the red sky before sunrise
over the fields of time.
You are the cock’s crow when night is done,
you are the dew and the bells of matins,
maiden, stranger, mother, death.
You create yourself in ever-changing shapes
that rise from the stuff of our days—
unsung, unmourned, undescribed,
like a forest we never knew.
You […]

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Summer in the Methow
Purged from the hive,
she hovers, then
dives
into the stamen’s glow.
Spring gold
A whirling dervish
on the Nootka rose
I want work like that!
Work that makes me dizzy
Makes me drunk on sweet nectar
finds me dancing
across the plush, pink petals of all that I love.

-Kathy Heffernan
I was riding the route 14 bus last Thursday toward downtown and gazed up […]

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It has been a full day for me, a day filled with words and many gifts. As the afternoon light lengthens the shadows of everything I love across the earth, I want to rest in silence.  So I offer my prayer in an image and a blessing upon your weekend.  May you find rest in the […]

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Lately I have been receiving several requests for prints of various photos found on my blog which I am happy to offer, so I am formally adding this option to my Offerings page.  If you are ever interested in receiving a print of any photos I take here please let me know the image and […]

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Today is my one-year blogging anniversary!  Hard to believe, it has been a truly wonderful year.  I have met so many amazing people, gifted artists, new friends.  I have received advice and encouragement on the creative journey.
I am stealing this idea from Kayce at Diamonds in the Sky With Lucy, who for her 100th post asked […]

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Sunrise to sunrise,
prayerful rhythm of the day.
Will we be awake?
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-Haiku by Antony Hanson at Coming to the Quiet / photo is mine taken on Saltspring Island

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Wild Geese
You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear […]

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I am leaving tomorrow for a few days of retreat on Saltspring Island up in British Columbia.  I am bringing Tune, my camera, my journal, and my art supplies, and I will meet one of my dearest friends up there.
I went to Saltspring Island for the first time in January of 2006 and it was a […]

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There are so many gifts
Still unopened from your birthday,
There are so many hand-crafted presents
That have been sent to you by God.
The Beloved does not mind repeating,
“Everything I have is also yours.”
Please forgive Hafiz and the Friend
If we break into a sweet laughter
When your heart complains of being thirsty
When ages ago
Every cell in your soul
Capsized forever
Into […]

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