Jan. ’10-A think tank gathering for people interested in sharing views on human health, soil and agriculture prompted Tom and I to travel to Florida on my 40th B-day. Ding Darling Wildlife Preserve on Sanibel Island, we visited twice. I step out of the rental car and I’m woozy from the blend of air travel [...]
Jan. 14, ’10-Smeary pink smatterings of soft pink seem to sink into the sunrise. Later a layer of soft pink floats suspended above Arcadia in the Eastern sky. Stars capture my attention as I walk in below zero darkness. The quarter moon offers diffused light that shines at a creek corner. I’m settled into the [...]
Jan. 6, ’10-Welcome back and be sure to read “Steep Hills=Big Thrills” first. Lovely lacey snowflakes slumber silently as I swoon over the sights and sounds. The sights are brushing the cold away and the silence is a reminder of where our journeys began. All of us-you and I standing together in spirit, simply waiting [...]
Jan. 2nd, ’10-My hubby Doc Tom has described how invariably the front end of a snowstorm produces a weather system that causes cattle to calve. A client of Tom’s had a small herd of cattle nestled @ the bottom of a steep hill. I’d heard the story many times of how he slid sideways down [...]
Dec. 31, ’09-It’s 5 AM and 7 degrees above zero. I peer intently @ the blue moon bouncing beams in the morning chill. It’s a thrill to marvel @ the cosmic dance and the chance to enhance my stance in life. It’s a vision and working from the end point forward. Settling into a deep [...]
Dec. 29, ’09-Frozen stillness slaps my skin as I step out onto the porch in the early morning. I dare to glance @ the thermometer and it rudely displays -3 degrees. I steal a glance through my half face mask and then it happens. I savor stars all sparkly strung through the sky like Christmas [...]
Dec. 4, ’09-Tom and I ventured towards the St. Paul Conference and our first stop on the roadtrip was Rieck’s Park, just North of Alma, WI. At 7 AM there was a slight dusting of snow and chilly wind that prompted the waterfowl to sit quietly on the water. Tom eye-balled the assortment of ducks [...]
Dec. 1, ’09-Look up in the sky and do you see the full moon? Tom and Hawken are trapping in the moonlight along Muir Creek. They caught a mink last time Hawken was along. Just spectacular beams bouncing all blurred and murky by the dark clouds in the West. “Kinda looks like a ball!” Hawken tells Pops [...]
Nov. 2009-Whispering wonderment washes over me in waves as I watch two ducks envelop the backwaters. A silent fluidity of feathers flapping fervently as they perform a synchronistic flight. I spy a faint sliver of moon across Sunrise Slough. A bright star in east reminds me of the up coming hollydaze. Crackled corn is frosted in [...]
Thanksgiving ’09- I review my gratitude list throughout the day. A space between thoughts to search for the gift of the PRESENT. What a blessing to have family and friends. It is fascinating to be the oberver of happenings with a child like curiousity and playfulness that seeps into my writings. I tell my close [...]