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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Live in simple faith . . . Just as this trusting cherry Flowers, fades, and falls — Kobayashi Issa (1763-1828) Winter seems thoroughly upon us …
People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something …
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 …
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 …
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