I offer Blessings for a holiday season and New Year full of light, wonder and joy. Add to this fine health and happiness and to the knowing how it is we are each, and all loved. 

Mix in some inspiration and creativity and Whatever/Whoever makes us each shine *

I want to Sleep well, Eat well. 

Go outside and lift up my hands, my heart, my voice and give thanks.

xo

how did it become november?
my gramma annie suggested in numerous ways that time is a thing of its own.
she said 'when one is happy and healthy hours and days fly on by'..
and with this sentiment i am full of thanks and wonder! that yes...where did the days go?

the nights hold their own mystery..dreams and fragments of unfinished moments.
just this morning i was offered a shimmer of wisdom..and i took it.
did it make me wiser? i'd like to think so,
but above all else did it remind me to keep my heart wide open,
eyes too?

i'd like to believe this true
for each and every one of us. xo

spring is doing its thing.
it is quite a miracle to witness the ground opening as the itty bitty tips of new plants push their way through and that they simply know exactly what to do. 
this last week sitting under a tibetan cherry tree, also known as a paperbark cherry, its latin name prunus serrula i overheard a gentleman tell a group of school children how it is that dragonflies are such terrific hunters, oh sure, he said, they are beautiful but what hunters they are. one young boy trying not to shout is glorified by this news. awesome! he says as he falls to the ground and takes a tumble and a roll about in the spring grass. he is so happy to be here, this is what he says. i want to drop to the ground with him, but i don't and when they walk away i smile a smile that begins from within and stays with me through my writing and into the day. 
xo 

last day of march

the skies opened and rain the size of nickels bounced off the thirsty ground
(this gift about a minute and a half after i started the lawnmower!)
now there are crystal water drops on the tips of swollen buds and branches
and the greens are brilliant
it is a time of newness..
birds, peepers, flowers
a time to plant seeds
and practice faith

here we are into the month of march

in like a sparrow, out like a raven?

or some such thing
last night/early this morning
i had a wonderful dream
as i witnessed four birds
ride the backs of one another
in size, from very small to quite large
then in some unspoken/unsong moment
they tumbled into a free fall/dive
and i was there with them!

we arrived back from our annual 'pilgrimage' to the baja sur,
this time spending most of a month in la paz,
a lovely city
full of sounds, sights,
smells and some new tastes.