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?
Flamboyant, gregarious
Tradition
Tradition is not tending to the ashes but passing along the fire.
What fire or embers has been passed onto you and what are you passing on?
Red-eyed
“Learning to be amphibious, that is, adapting to life in these two radically divergent realms, heaven and earth, demands of us that we learn to see again through different lenses than those to which we have become accustomed.“ ~ Luci Shaw, Breath for the bones
How are you moving between heaven and earth?
North Star
What bubbles up within us that seeks expression? What seeks recognition and response from us in some creative form? And what role do our desires play?
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?
Kingfisher
What has seemed out of reach for a long time finally came together and alive with mystery and grace, or as Gerard Manley Hopkins begins a poem “As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame…
Where have you experienced “catching fire”?
With the Eyes of the Heart 