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Friday, March 27, 2015

Pause & See

patient wait for spring

winter's persistence lingers

bending not breaking

orah

I try to see something new each day. The art of seeing is essential to any creative work in my humble opinion. My favorites are the ones that stop me in my tracks! Like so many folks I have a very busy mind that I struggle to quiet. By creating this practice it has given me many opportunities to pause and be with a new wonder. I love to wonder about wonders. These little seeings can be just the jolt my creative process needs to get out of a rut. But mostly, they provide a pause which is that moment of peace I need to heal from a frustration. These seeings are grounding for me and bring me to the present. I will admit to laughing out loud with joy over some of my discoveries, they are a moments of childlike wonder!

"When you realize how perfect everything is you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky" ~~~Buddha

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Wednesday, March 25, 2015

A "day" at the beach~~~

Last Friday was the Vernal Equinox....but spring is still in question here in Maine! Since the day was warmer than bitter cold I decided to head to the coast for a beach moment. I craved walking on thawed ground. The little town beach in Searsport is one of my favorite nearby bits of coast. I had the beach all to my Self...go figure! The steps down to the beach were still snow filled (those are handrails in the photo...not ankle rails!). I had come prepared with my handy neoprene muck boots, so no worries.

I meandered for a time and enjoyed the sound of waves, wind, & seagulls.

It was good to feel salt air on my face.

I hadn't been to coast since last fall.

ice edge

Of course, I was looking for sea glass. I found some nice pieces. This purple pieces was my most exciting find! The tide was very low on account of the New Moon. I walked on parts of the beach I had never been before. I would have stayed longer but I admit to getting quite cold. Chilled to the bone but refreshed by the sea.

Here is poem I love by the beloved, Pablo Neruda

The Sea

I need the sea because it teaches me.
I don’t know if I learn music or awareness,
if it’s a single wave or its vast existence,
or only its harsh voice or its shining
suggestion of fishes and ships.
The fact is that until I fall asleep,
in some magnetic way I move in
the university of the waves.

It’s not simply the shells crunched
as if some shivering planet
were giving signs of its gradual death;
no, I reconstruct the day out of a fragment,
the stalactite from the sliver of salt,
and the great god out of a spoonful.

What it taught me before, I keep. It’s air
ceaseless wind, water and sand.

It seems a small thing for a young man,
to have come here to live with his own fire;
nevertheless, the pulse that rose
and fell in its abyss,
the crackling of the blue cold,
the gradual wearing away of the star,
the soft unfolding of the wave
squandering snow with its foam,
the quiet power out there, sure
as a stone shrine in the depths,
replaced my world in which were growing
stubborn sorrow, gathering oblivion,
and my life changed suddenly:
as I became part of its pure movement.

Pablo Neruda

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Friday, March 20, 2015

PAUSE & SEE

winter surrender

let go of expectation

sunflowers return

Orah

"When you realize how perfect everything is you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky" ~~~Buddha

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Thursday, March 19, 2015

Not Great Weather for Ducks!

It is hard to believe that only last May these Ducks came to me. This is their first winter and they must wonder what kind of world they have been hatched into...this world of perpetual winter! It is hard for me to remember what spring warmth felt like. We are on day 3 of howling winds that are keeping temps well below freezing...at times below 0! When folk say that time flies by quickly they certainly have not lived through a winter like this one. Forever is how long last May feels to me...I can only imagine how it feels to my Duckicles!

A week ago we had a moment of thaw and could actually see some ground. This has since been covered by snow. Unfortunately, is was not enough of a thaw to clean out the duckhouse. I usually am able to clean it once a month during the winter but not this year. I am stretching my imagination to find ways to add comfort to my Duckies lives. By now there usually would have been enough of a thaw that they could be foraging the ponds inlet and outlets. I did make a discovery the other day that is adding to their diet. I was in the freezer getting pumpkin out to make pumpkin bread when I came across boxes of grated frozen zucchini. I thought I would make zucchini bread this winter...but then I thought of my ducks! They usually won't eat veggies like chickens, I thought I would give it a try! They love it! Unfortunately, my zucchini supply is not going to last until the thaw....next year I will freeze more with the ducks in mind....maybe grated carrots next? My sweeties are still laying eggs for me! I tell them they can take a break...best ducks ever!

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