“One day when you wake up, you will find that you have become a forest . . . A host of wild creatures live inside you and you call them stories . . . And you should be so proud of yourself, of how far you have come from the seeds of who you used […]
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The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don’t go back to sleep. —Rumi These lines from one of Rumi’s poems came to mind when we were hiking recently at one of our favorite places. It had taken a little effort to get out of bed at 5:00 AM and drive to Enchanted Rock […]
“Perhaps many things inside you have been transformed; perhaps somewhere, someplace deep inside your being, you have undergone important changes while you were sad.” –Rainer Maria Rilke As time always does, the years since I have written here brought change. My late husband’s Parkinson’s Disease progressed, bringing with it emotional and physical challenges for me […]
Last summer, when I visited a museum and saw Vincent Van Gogh’s painting Women Crossing the Fields for the first time in person, I felt a tug of recognition. It wasn’t just that I had previously seen reproductions of this work, but I felt I had seen it in life itself. It took me a […]
The Chinese new year just began, and according to the reports I read, this is the year of the wooden horse, which reminded me again of Tony Boy, the gift my parents made for me when I was a child and which I wrote about in my last post. Yesterday that was still on my […]
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 –E. E. Cummings Nothing in nature represents “yes” to me more than trees, and I often repeat these lines of poetry from […]
Practicing Wonder 