Comfort

 

Sometimes all you need to gift yourself

Is a simple breath

One that fills you

And then that long slow outflow

Telling your whole self

It will be alright.

And sometimes, all you need to gift yourself

Is the time spent enjoying the scent of flowers

Or the pounding waves of the Sea

Or some such thing that fills you with warm nostalgia.

It could be a sweet kiss, gentle embrace, or any sort of kind touch that could be that perfect solution.

And what might your soul need? Being filled through your eyes?

Smiles full of light could be the gift, or a horse racing madly through Buttercups

Free as a bird

Sometimes all you need to gift yourself is a warm cup of comfort 

Or a cool refreshing sweet

But in all of this ~ these gifts

Your being filled, held, soothed

Comforted

Is all you need.

2021 Family Photos

 Everyone grows every year and in all different ways. Here we are this year.

A Faithful Garden

 I am not a gardener these days 

There was a time when I was

I am not taking time to nurture plants well

I throw them water when I can

Their soil has no special nourish

Most seeds I did not plant myself

And yet they have mostly all grown

Amidst the weeds 

And the sun has called them faithful

I can wander through the beds

Harvesting what I choose

Letting go back to seed what does

And I am blessed

By the crisp crunch of the bean

By the beets abundance

There is no reputation to uphold

No competition to attempt

It's just life where it's at

And a faithful garden to enjoy

When I can

The Moments Being Human Seems Okay

 Here I am

And not often am I here

At early morn

My bones surprisingly supple today

My mind not as dim

And the sun suddenly blazed over the cornfield

As it crested the mountain

Catching me off guard

Prompting a smile

And I can see a freshly bloomed

Deeply blushed Rose

Just one

From my couch out my window

It is the tallest one

And I quietly stepped outside

To listen

To pet the cats warm and snuggled

To hear the baby chicks peeping contentedly 

To their mother

These are the moments

Being human

Seems okay

Island Times

This Summer, like last summer, my family and I went over to the island. I spent formative years here. When I am there I feel the most like myself. We stayed with family and friends and enjoyed life together. With everyone growing up, and our time together growing short, every minute of this matters to me more than ever!

                          A family dinner and family grace ~ not something not to be taken forgranted

                                      My babies loving their baby cousin so sweetly

                                   Cousins becoming friends is something I value so highly

                                                             My favorite beach of all:

                                I wanted to experience an ocean sunset and this was the one

                                                            Best Friends are treasures

  I didn't actually take many photos this time. I just enjoyed every minute that I could. There were so many perfect happy moments. My highlights were my friend rescuing a lone duckling (it made me feel young again), visiting childhood friends, being cared for with such kindness, experiencing new things, living in the camper, and getting out of the town I live in. I don't love it and there were a lot of mosquitos and a relentless heat wave. Where we went felt like an oasis. I am so grateful for all of this! So grateful!

Oh How You Are Loved

 If you take a minute to look around you at the world ~ and not at the people or the places, not at what man has done ~ but if you look at what has been made for you to enjoy ~ does anything catch your breath? We all need those moments where our very breath is caught because the beauty is so undoing. Find a flower, find a leaf, look into the grass or up in a tree, it is everywhere and it is love. I went with my camera to try to capture this time in my cousin's life where her beauty was brilliant amongst  the love. I wanted to share it because I was delighted with it all.