just one full Rain Day.    Green.   green green and green   …..   all through the forest      my first thought was…Begin Again,  but then almost immediately I thought….no,    just    Continuing.    They have     Waited.   Still.   Still.    Waiting is not     gone.  They have Waited.    What is the lifespan of…

  just two evenings ago.   Tonight,   dark.   Rain. I thought of many things to say here.  but then,  just,    the words that Cynthia gave me….Gentle Day.    Yes.   Gentle Day. go to Deb G's….Bee Creative…..her post….so Full and Soothing

a piece of cardboard.  pics glued.    it has traveled.    20 something,  maybe even 30…probably….30,   years.   the pics are from 3 beautiful small publications.      when I lived in El Cerro Mission or Los Lunas  and would drive to Albuquerque….at first for work and then later,  to the Food Co~op     i'd stop…

one of the Janet Chairs.   The other is at B Garden.   this one props the door open…wind….has been in place for months now.   Weather app says rain all night.   ok.   so it will be the first night of closing the door.   Janet Chair is released.  rain begins at 10.     the big transition.   Goats will…

it        feels     really good. the "frame"   of the  2  "magic"  ribbons   came first.   Then….without thought,   this simple flower.   Nothing fancy,  just a very small drawing.   But it felt and continues  to      feel       good.    Comforts.     it comforts me.    One week from today,   the one looming…

he was adamant to home school grades 4 through 7.   this coincided with Covid.    he became distant in family get togethers.  Announced that he wanted to attend public school for 8th grade and did.   Seamlessly.   Is a freshman,  public high school with mid term straight a's  including honors English and math…except for one….an A+…

wind.    Wind usually flows,  rushes,   up….Up the road in.   But now and then,    it's Everywhere.   As today.   The Dragon chime,  the Swing,   the clothes on the Line       alive and moving    animated by presence of Wind.    I watch.    Feel it.     Grateful to KNOW it….how it moves upon the…

a banner.    strip of Toad egg Cloth….having taken this form in New Mexico.     Has been on Altar for all this time.  Asking for  inclusion in the Present.    we reconfigure.

the world through a fallen leaf         William Smith  my church   my sangha  my prayer   my sacred and holy leaf  

have seen this over and over across time.   it's always there in the pics of the Round Basket,  Circle Basket.    and always,  Beauty full,  always loved since  Nancy sent  it????when??????    A long time.    This morning tho,  was as if for the       First Time.    I felt the inside of it…