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had agreed with self last night to wake to some Meditation time this morning.     It was an Every Other Day.   i did that then sat quietly a while,  watched First Light  come.   after a while,  checked on Ukraine.    and thought the above.   Actually,  i thought,  I need a Life Coach   first.    Am going to continue with my  "treatment plan" .    it took two tries,  he is  Done With  It All and i talked to him.  Told him how his leg depends on this.   Two tries is not so bad.  it got done.   in less than a half a minute.  

it was an extremely soft and Beauty Full day after the rainy windy week preceding,  and i took the plant starts to the Garden.   Was slow and thoughtful.  there were butterflies.  a humming bird.    i remembered the quote from Anne Lamott that Marti had brought to us the other day.  

"Well,  how does us appreciating spring help the people of Ukraine?   If we believe in Chaos Theory,  and the butterfly effect,  that the flapping of the Monarch's wings near my home can lead to a weather change in Tokyo,   then maybe noticing beauty…flapping our wings with amazement….changes things in ways we cannot begin to imagine .   It means goodness is quantum.  Even to help the small world helps.  Even prayer,  which seems to do nothing,  Everything is connected."       and as i worked there,  doing small things,  i stayed with these words.   And thought too,  about how my indulgence in my Dread creates vibration.   I can do better.   i want to teach self to do better.  because i can.     and  I like that she said…Even prayer,  which seems to do nothing

 

 

 


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i don't know why these pics are so BIG????   i did nothing different,  but oh well…..

Talkie has been intermittent in her  egg work since resuming.   She's changing her nest spots.   Most recent in with Sunny Ray between the two pellet barrels.    This was what was there this morning.  Maybe she's in the spirit.   She would be christian.  in her own pagan way.

and speaking of

a new book.    Liana Finck   Let There Be Light     in which  God is a Woman.     I had sworn to not buy any new books.  But…maybe this one.    i can say it's for Julian.    He used to draw stories,  line drawings,  similar to hers and has a wry sense of humor for his age.   I could say it's for him.

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13 responses to “a soft, quiet, very Beauty Full day”

  1. jude Avatar

    maybe your pics are in the spirit

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  2. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    Appreciating spring…the apple tree is greening and sending our blossoms and I needed to bring some indoors, put one little offshoot branch that I cut, on the table…soft while blossoms with pink centers. Cut a few more off-shoots to fill the basket on the patio table, I know this is not the time to prune the tree, landlord was supposed to have done so this winter…I don’t know anything about pruning apple trees but I think it is ok to cut a few wayward branches; I only took a few.
    Sat outside yesterday, reading but now and then, watching the children from the next building, running, laughing, looking for Easter eggs that their parents had hidden among the bushes, trees.Later they sat on the gravel that separates our two buildings, mouths smeared with chocolate, getting up and running, sitting back down telling silly jokes…and I thought, this is why we moved here and not to an active 55 community.I need to be near children, boisterous, silly, loving children who find joy in the freedom to run everywhere with abandon, whopping it up, searching for eggs, sifting gravel to find bugs…and I said a prayer that the children of Ukraine could find similar moments.
    Speaking of eggs: the egg on the left seems as large as an ostrich egg or maybe it is just the angle of the photo.
    And the book that is for Julian/you: Sometimes we simply need to give to ourselves as much as we need to give to others…

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  3. Liz A Avatar

    graphic novels are challenging to me … I guess reading left to right is so ingrained in my being … but I have put a hold on this book, to try again
    I bought new markers for the St Louis grandsons … Pitt brush markers … they love them and have already drawn other-worldly creatures … I can’t wait to visit and see their drawings up close …

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  4. Nancy Avatar

    “soft” – a word I used yesterday too, a word I am embracing these days as something needed, needed and appreciated. Yesterday I sat with cloth in the patio sun and napped to recuperating from my booster shot and glad for the opportunity to do so.
    I agree with Marti, sometimes the need is there for ‘thing’ and filling it is okay and good for us. I too give to others far more than to self.
    Be well xo

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  5. Beverly Avatar
    Beverly

    ‘Jus”god is a mother
    and with that
    sentence
    the world stops
    the world always stops
    when woman and
    divine
    commingle
    as if the
    feminine
    dilutes the
    miraculous
    when in reality
    it embodies it
    when jesus turns water
    to wine
    they clap
    but when women turn breasts
    to milk
    they cringe
    a broken man’s body
    is celebrated each sunday
    while a broken woman’s body
    is just hidden away
    and it’s no wonder
    that mother is a word
    used by men
    to demonize those
    who don’t claim the name
    and weaponized to shame
    those who step out of line
    because
    their ideal
    woman
    plays the role of nurturer
    and silencer
    in pews
    built and led by them
    but
    when god
    becomes mother
    she is neither quiet
    or compliant
    she leads confidently
    she questions authority
    she commands respect
    which might be the problem
    for mother god
    did not gather us up
    carelessly
    but took her time with it
    she fed us milk
    birthed our souls
    and broke her body
    and the permanence
    can be uncomfortable
    and to disentangle god
    from motherhood
    is impossible
    but
    to disentangle god
    from womanhood
    is sinful
    because seeing god as mother
    is one step closer
    to seeing god in me
    and it’s in that
    i am truly
    born again”
    ~ Kaitlin Hardy Shetlert read this today

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  6. Beverly Avatar
    Beverly

    sorry my previous post did not come out right
    I read this today
    ”god is a mother
    and with that
    sentence
    the world stops
    the world always stops
    when woman and
    divine
    commingle
    as if the
    feminine
    dilutes the
    miraculous
    when in reality
    it embodies it
    when jesus turns water
    to wine
    they clap
    but when women turn breasts
    to milk
    they cringe
    a broken man’s body
    is celebrated each sunday
    while a broken woman’s body
    is just hidden away
    and it’s no wonder
    that mother is a word
    used by men
    to demonize those
    who don’t claim the name
    and weaponized to shame
    those who step out of line
    because
    their ideal
    woman
    plays the role of nurturer
    and silencer
    in pews
    built and led by them
    but
    when god
    becomes mother
    she is neither quiet
    or compliant
    she leads confidently
    she questions authority
    she commands respect
    which might be the problem
    for mother god
    did not gather us up
    carelessly
    but took her time with it
    she fed us milk
    birthed our souls
    and broke her body
    and the permanence
    can be uncomfortable
    and to disentangle god
    from motherhood
    is impossible
    but
    to disentangle god
    from womanhood
    is sinful
    because seeing god as mother
    is one step closer
    to seeing god in me
    and it’s in that
    i am truly
    born again”
    ~ Kaitlin Hardy Shetler

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  7. Nancy Avatar

    Praying by Mary Oliver
    t doesn’t have to be
    the blue iris, it could be
    weeds in a vacant lot, or a few
    small stones; just
    pay attention, then patch
    a few words together and don’t try
    to make them elaborate, this isn’t
    a contest but the doorway
    into thanks, and a silence in which
    another voice may speak.

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  8. grace Forrest Avatar

    the children of Ukraine….oh….the children of Ukraine.
    it’s just a regular sized egg…
    i’ll think about the book.

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  9. grace Forrest Avatar

    we aren’t near Pitt brush markers…but closer…
    she is now into writing words when for so long when
    i broached writing her name…her response was…it’s not
    my thing

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  10. grace Forrest Avatar

    yes…i need soft, can feel the shift

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  11. grace Forrest Avatar

    Beverly…Thank You for this, i have gone off to look
    for Kaitlin Hardy Shelter
    and gender tho is the last thing i would give a god…but
    it’s GOOD, god as a Woman, it disassembles subconscious and so unexamined impressions learned as the youngest child
    There is so much in the words you bring..Truth and beauty…
    Thank You,

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  12. grace Forrest Avatar

    Mary O….
    i forgot this….
    Thank you so so much

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