When you look at this photo that I took minutes ago, what do you see? This is the view from my office as I write this, looking out over the Strait of Juan de Fuca toward the San Juan Islands (and on a clear day, beyond to Vancouver Island in British Columbia). This is the very edge of our country, a boundary between the U.S. and Canada. That takes care of the geography, but what do you believe is happening in this photo?
Continue reading...3. March 2009
You gotta love Spring—four days ago I was snowed in, today it’s 52 degrees. I took my dog to a nearby park to inspect buds and bees. We found this beautiful willow tree, all fuzzy in her soft pussiness with bees buzzing all around…collecting pollen, collecting gold. Such symbiosis, such an elegant plan. An insect perpetuating a tree, the tree recycling our carbon waste…but that’s where the circle of life breaks, shatters—as we dump more dirt into the air than there are trees left to clean it. Have we lost the desire to breathe? Are we insane?
Continue reading...2. March 2009
Haiku is a Japanese poetry form that traditionally is written in three lines of 5 / 7 / 5 syllables, though not all people adhere to that rule. Twitter, with it's 140 character limit is the ideal delivery medium for this art form. Below are my haikus from the last week. I'd love to see you on Twitter where you can add your 17 syllables to the flow. (My latest tweets--as NatureSpirits--are in my sidebar.)
Continue reading...1. March 2009
Blustery, stormy morning—the tallest firs are whipping around like saplings. Then for just a few moments, the dense shroud tears apart, revealing pieces of blue sky changing shape as fast as the wind can whisk the grayness by. And suddenly, falling from the clouds over the Strait, wide and curvy—my own rainbow…and then a faint twin appears, though its colors are reversed. It is a sign? Am I supposed to double some effort? Reverse a plan? Amplify some delight?
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5. March 2009
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