Dancing

 

 

“Dancing on the edge

is the only place to be.” 

–Trisha Brown

 

 

 

Draw us out

“It is madness to wear ladies’ straw hats and velvet hats to church; we should all be wearing crash helmets. Ushers should issue life preservers and signal flares; they should lash us to our pews. For the sleeping god may wake someday and take offense, or the waking god draw us out where we can never return.” 

– Annie Dillard, “An Expedition to the Pole” in Teaching a Stone to Talk

Next

 

“I had staked my life on the belief

that the next step would be revealed.”  

                       – Nora Gallagher

  

   

I try

“I try to notice how the desert is put together, with the expectation that if I look hard enough the land will open up to me, spilling an endless stream of color, light, and living things in bright ecstasy.”    

  — Ellen Meloy, The Anthropology of Turquoise

Luna Moth

 

No eye that sees could fail to remark you:

like any leaf the rain leaves fixed to and

flat against the barn’s gray shingle. But

what leaf, this time of year, is so pale…

                 –Carl Phillips, excerpted from “Luna Moth”

Beth Westmark posted this photo at her blog, and I thought it was stunning.  She gave me permission to post it, too.

Good tidings

September, Mueller State Park

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.

 Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.

 The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves.   

– John Muir

Tip of the Day

 Smart Energy Living Alliance  offers this Tip of the Day: 

“UNPLUG SOMETHING!”

 

Seems like a good way to start Lent.

Boxes full of silence

“Jesus, where…is everybody when they first deliver the typing paper?

Where are all the “helpers” when those boxes full of silence come in? Blank. Both sides.

No clues, no instructions enclosed on how to take just 26 letters and endlessly rearrange them so that you can turn them into a mirror of a part of our lives. Try it sometime.” - Larry Gelbart 

Listening for meaning

Fountain by Tyler, age 5

“We write, we make pictures, we make music because we are listening for meaning, feeling for healing. 

 And during the writing of our story, or the painting, or the composing or singing or playing, we are returned to that open creativity which was ours when we were children.”

 –Madeleine L’Engle, Walking on Water 

Andrew by Jake, age 10

Make visible

 

“Make visible what, without you, might never

have been seen.”    – Robert Bresson, film director