Spring Fever!

Sunday Quote

Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are a hundred ways to kneel and kiss the ground. - Rumi

Spring strolls

The fence and the dirt path seem to have a direction in mind. cannot get enough of the turtles...saw a muskrat too but the camera was not in my pocket that particular walk... my favorite sight each Spring, the lovely Magnolia by the Temple as I drive to work. I think I can relax now, it's really Spring.

Sunday Quote

i thank You God for most this amazing day:for the leaping greenly spirits of trees and a blue true dream of sky;and for everything which is natural which is infinite which is yes (i who have died am alive again today, and this is the sun's birthday;this is the birth day of life and love and wings:and of the gay great happening illimitably earth) how should tasting touching hearing seeing breathing any-lifted from the no of all nothing-human merely being doubt unimaginable You? (now the ears of my ears awake and now the eyes of my eyes are opened) ~ e.e. cummings ~ (Complete Poems 1904-1962) and forgive eec wherever you are for the awful layout of your most gorgeous work. Blogger and I do not agree on how this should work.

Love for a fellow sparrow

Happy Birthday, Gladys Taber.

Happy Birthday to Me!

Feeling interestingly joyous this birthday, not what the dreaded build-up has been. I credit the great yoga workshop on Sunday for pushing me into a sense of happy anticipation for this birthday year - as well as this sudden burst of Spring. It does arrive after all, green and bloomy and bountiful.

Sunday Quote

We give thanks for all those times we have arisen from the depths or simply taken a tiny step toward something new. May we be empowered by extraordinary second chances. And as we enter the world anew, let us turn the tides of despair into endless waves of hope. -Molly Fumia, excerpt from A Grateful Heart

Spring walk around the lake

Walking around the same area for a number of years is a relationship with the banks and the trees, and memories. Lucky me catching this old turtle on a rock. The younger ones dash in before you can barely see them. I miss so many trees, old friends that leaned low over the water, creating pockets of mystery along the banks and great places for the birds and frogs and turtles to hide out. The storms of winter and Parks and Rec have left little on the banks. Still - mushrooms budding on tree trunks, green shoots in the muddy edges, lend a hope that Nature will rally yet again, grow, heal, bloom. The beauty of a bird versus the idiocy of what people dump in the lake... Enjoying the rowdy game of Lacrosse that was playing in the high school field getting my walking rhythm back, and remembering to listen to what the trees say when the wind rushes through. Drove home feeling chilled to the bone but good, the way a Spring walk is supposed to feel.

Happy Birthday to my guy!

Who thankfully does not look like this bloke! Although am digging the kilt :) (Any excuse to post a silly photo).

A Hoax for April Fools

A literary hoax, Ern Malley....two poets who pretended to be someone else and published what some perceived as their best work. Not as much larky fun as say, the jackaloupe, but it's past midnight so...rabbit, rabbit, rabbit, (jackaloupe!).

Sunday Quote and Happy Easter

Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song. - Pope John Paul II

MOMA on a Thursday

The oil by Pavel Tchelitchew, Hide-and-Seek, is reported to be the most popular painting at MOMA. I first saw it way back in high school and was mesmerized by it. In my mind I have always referred to it as the tree of life painting. Some art you carry with you forever. Some art you look at and shrug. Telling my youngest, see if you can find a link in your mind, something evoked, something sparked be it good or bad. Like poetry, you don't have to understand it, you just have to be open to what it might bring to you. A wonderful day with my two boys.

Happy Birthday, Tucker!

Three years old! We love you, little dog.

Sunday Quote

It is the wind and rain, O God, the cold and the storm that make this earth of Thine to blossom and bear its fruit. So in our lives it is storm and stress and hurt and suffering that make real men and women bring the world's work to its highest perfection. Let us learn then in these growing years to respect the harder sterner aspects of life together with its joy and laughter, and to weave them all into the great web which hangs holy to the Lord. - W.E.B.Du Bois

Sometimes you just want to....

Tea and Cafe

Sunday Quote

If you wait long enough a sentence appears. - Jeffrey Skinner, from Votive

Blinded with Science

And what is that music pouring out of my son's room but Thomas Dolby, an old favorite of mine and my husband...concert years ago at Radio City Music Hall years before this kid was born.

Sunday Quote

If you follow your bliss, you will always have your bliss, money or not. If you follow money, you may lose it, and you will have nothing. - Joseph Campbell

Sunday Quote

A mature religion is integral in nature - that means that it is flexible enough to integrate all new knowledge within its frame of reference and keep pace with all the new discoveries of the human mind. It indeed takes the cross into the spacecraft. Going to school means starting on the road to science, and if religion does not follow the same road with an open and critical eye, the grown adult who flies the ocean in superjets might be religiously still content with a tricycle. Essential for mature religion is the constant willingness to shift gears, to integrate new insights, and to revise our positions. - Henri Nouwen, Seeds of Hope