Monthly Archives: September 2009

I haven't been paying much attention to my horoscope recently. I am not sure why but I seem not to get to that section of the newspaper with much regularity. But as I perused the comics(Bizarro was particularly funny today), … Continue reading →

" I do not know if the seasons remember their history  or if the days and nights by which we count time remember their own    passing.I do not know if the oak tree remembers its planting or if the pine remembers … Continue reading →

 Last weekend I sat and watched a monarch butterfly on the flowers in our backyard garden. I became mesmerized by the movement of its wings. Open, close. Open, close. Open, close. Slowly the beautiful orange and black stained-glass patterned wings … Continue reading →

"Star-flinging Spirit,you stop, stoop, kneel, and embrace,everyone and everything in need of your love and care.May I join you today in caring for your creation,embracing my role within the family of life."~Sam Hamilton-Poore I've just come back to my house … Continue reading →

"I have one talent and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised, surprised at life, at ideas. Don't be old. Don't be stale." Abraham Joshua Heschel I came across this quote in The Zookeeper's Wife a book by Diane … Continue reading →

"For the first showings of the morning light and the emerging out line of the day, thanks be to you, O God. For earth's colours drawn forth by the sun, its brilliance piercing clouds of darkness and shimmering through leaves … Continue reading →

On Friday morning I sat on a plane that flew so close to the top of Mt. Rainier that it felt as if I could reach out and touch it. The sun was shining off the snow that makes its … Continue reading →

As I walked through Loring Park yesterday I came upon a group of people staring into a rather short, small evergreen tree. The branches of the tree were sparse with lots of space in between. Nestled in the branches was … Continue reading →

Yesterday as I left the church, I was stopped by the red light at Groveland and Lyndale Avenues. It was a particularly warm and sunny September day and the air conditioning in the car had not found its groove yet … Continue reading →