To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee,
One clover, and a bee.
And revery.
The revery alone will do,
If bees are few. ~ Emily Dickinson
Each small step bringing life, how does your prairie take shape?
Prairie
Flamboyant, gregarious
Sometimes something utterly unknown and foreign flutters into our lives with flamboyant colors and invites us to playfulness and exploration.
What unknowns do you engage playfully?
Bubbles
Gratitude arises when we pay attention to the intricate connectivity of life, when we awake to the presence of everything around us that is so often hidden from our eyes, and the miracle of a living vibrant world gives us breath.
When does gratitude rise in you?
Integrity
Why is being in nature so refreshing? I wonder if it has to do with the integrity or authenticity of nature where a rock is a rock, a tree is a tree and a chicken is a chicken in the midst of a world of artificial flavors, fake news, and pretend masks that vie for the spectacular or relevant or powerful.
How does nature restore your soul?
Into the Field of Sunflowers
Come with me into the field of sunflowers, Mary Oliver invites in one of her poems, for their wonderful stories.
“…Don’t be afraid
to ask them questions!
Their bright faces,
which follow the sun,
will listen, and all
those rows of seeds –
each one a new life!
hope for a deeper acquaintance;
each of them, though it stands
in a crowd of many,
like a separate universe,
is lonely, the long work
of turning their lives
into a celebration
is not easy…. ~ Mary Oliver
What is your long work of turning?
Summer fruit
Summer lets us enjoy the sweetness and flavors that explode from the culmination of seed and soil, sun and rain, watching and waiting. A gift!
What fruit are you nurturing this summer?
With the Eyes of the Heart 