Tag: growth

Winter solstice

Winter solstice

Rather than snow on the shortest day, our ornamental cherry is covered in lichen. It’s great not having snow, but the lichen is not a …

 

Signposts

Signposts

While on a walk around the Tokaanu natural thermal area earlier this week, I noticed a plant I had never seen before. It was covered …

 

Sea of madness

Sea of madness

I noticed the ducks seemed to be swimming in a sea of verdant spring growth today. The idea was just the kind of tonic I …

 

Spathiphyllum

Spathiphyllum

As is fairly typical, my husband was patiently waiting for me to finish my work so we could head home. I was surprised when he …

 

It’s all happening…

It’s all happening…

Sometimes it’s hard to see change happening. Good change that is. Bad change seems to have a special gift for happening incredibly quickly. Good things …

 

Archiving

Archiving

As one year comes to an end and another begins I go through a process of looking back in the hope that it will help …

 

267 – Live in simple faith

267 – Live in simple faith

Live in simple faith . . .       Just as this trusting cherry Flowers, fades, and falls — Kobayashi Issa (1763-1828) Winter seems thoroughly upon us …

 

139 – Seeing the light

139 – Seeing the light

People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something …

 

093 – Layers

093 – Layers

We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are …

 

090 – A day in the garden

090 – A day in the garden

Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes, and the grass grows by itself. — Zen Proverb Today was the day. It was going to happen. I knew it …