calling

when she showed me her garden
she showed me
her soul


If you are a gardener, never underestimate the power of your calling. (Whatever it is you do with passion, share it.) Thank you Dana for sharing your garden with me. The sudden sight of the poppies lifted me.

a special place

ireland?

scotland?

tuscany in spring?

no

just boring kansas

cradled here in the crux 

of fly over

country

*Driving past this scene on I 70 last week awakened in me the strong sense of “place” i’ve been given.

"the sense that comes from working in a place in all weathers, making a living from it, suffering from its catastrophes, loving its mornings or evenings or hot noons, valuing it for the profound investment of labor and feeling that you, your parents and grandparents, your all-but-unkonwn ancestors have put into it.  He is talking about the knowing that poets specialize in."  ~From The Art of Geography

I'm grateful to be connected to flyover country. 

gift

sometimes
one is allowed
to see

straight to the heart
of
mystery


"The heavens declare the glory of God and the skies proclaim His handiwork."
                                                                                   Psalm 19:1

seeing you (said to a flower)

how can it be

that i saw you

today

in the prime of your

gentleness

as though you were

sent for this very moment

to soften my senses

one blossom

among millions

"Do you know how there are moments when the world moves so slowly you can feel your bones shifting, your mind tumbling?  When you think that no matter what happens to you for the rest of your life, you will remember every last detail of that one minute forever?  ~Jodi Piccoult