Happy Summer Solstice!

she pets moss the way some people pet cats her pockets are full of glorious gleanings and occasional fingers and the sky holds her arms whenever she lifts them, laughing #poetry

take my hand look, here is a star hold it in your hand

the wrong way through the binoculars i see the child oyoguhito #haiku haikueye.blogspot.com

A lone house, sun-bleached, deep-rooted, stands amid green fields, unbound— where solitude unfurls, and linens dance, like spirit’s breath, expansive, free; such quiet days remind the soul to drift into the deep end of quiet, to cherish self, to breathe. #OurPoetryX #prompt deep end #poetry

"Joy is not something that simply happens to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day." ~Henri Nouwen I wish you a day of choosing joy☀️✨✨ #eastcoastkin #sunrise

From grateful.org

The cottage pond. A work almost 6 years from initial groundwork to completion. It is so much more than we had dreamed it might be. And now we have fish!

#spiritchat Friends...my dear friends. I will be leaving this site and deleting my Bluesky account July 1st. Leaving this hour on Sunday is truly the only grief I bear in the decision. Your kindness, compassion, honesty and integrity have enriched my life. I thank you from the bottom of my heart.

ICYMI. The cover story for today’s live chat on bluesky at 9amEDT / 1pm UTC / 630pm India Topic: “Inter-connected Nature of Being” ~ bit.ly/sc140-being26 #Spiritchat

🧚 Tiny Flower Magic When Artists Play With Nature (12 Photos): streetartutopia.com/2026/06/14/s...

#Poetry #Painting #Summer It is morning, and again I am the lucky person to be in it Mary Oliver 🎨 Kaoru Yamada

Goodnight. 🖼️ Lev Lvovich Kamenev

blueberry season #joncarling #drawijg #art

Goodnight. ‘‘(W)e are not separate from each other or from the world, from the whole earth, the sun or moon or billions of stars, not separate from the entire universe. Listening silently in…wonderment, without knowing…there is just one mysteriously palpitating aliveness.’ ~ Toni Packer 🖼️ C Dunn

Goodnight. ‘The moon is a loyal companion. It never leaves. It’s always there, watching, steadfast, knowing us in our light and dark moments, changing forever just as we do. Every day it’s a different version of itself. Sometimes weak and wan, sometimes strong and full of light…’ ~ Tahereh Mafi 1/2

Good morning, my friends. I've made the decision to close down my blog and Bluesky account. Not immediately, but soon. I'm finding all the new technologies a bit hard to take. And when much smarter folks than me don't understand what's happening, I know it's time to bow out.

Goodnight. ✨ 🖼️ Terry Fan #OwlishMonday

a heron's soul or moonlight's ghost the water doesn't move #BirdOfTheDay #Reflections

He grew a branch for birds #joncarling #drawing #art

What I need most of all are flowers, always, always ... ~ Claude Monet Art by Julianna Bibor🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸

White Rabbit, Charles van Sandwyk.

the sliding dance of ripples and reflections the smell of rain

peeking… forget-me-nots and morning sun this moment less alone #imageandverse #coloraday #nature #haiku #tanka #NaTankaMo #tankapoem #tankathursday #MayTanka

#poetry #poem #writingcommunity #micropoetry #smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social By Ilya Kaminsky

#poem #poetry #writingcommunity #smallpoemsunday #nature @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

Happy June all, may the sun shine for us. At a tolerable and reasonable temperature. 🖼️ June, Eugène Grasset, 1896.

And the DarkWinter Lit 4th Anniversary Poetry Contest winner is...! @adlibby.bsky.social www.darkwinterlit.com/post/and-the...

Hello Sunday. 🖼️ Arthur Van Kruining

Le Livre des Mille et une Nuits, Illustrations de Léon Carré, Paris, 1932.

ICYMI. The cover story for today’s live chat on bluesky at 9amEDT / 1pm UTC / 630pm India Topic: “The Effortless Paths” ~ bit.ly/sc140-paths26 #Spiritchat

pool of misted rain hollowed in the tiny stone reflection of Spring #dailyhaikuprompt pool

floodwaters wander boats tethered to the sky light pools in the trees #dailyhaikuprompt pool

tidal pool of hours morning light changes in waves filling and unfilling #dailyhaikuprompt pool

bright sun's reflection pooled rainwater from night storm singing of peepers #dailyhaikuprompt pool

restless night the stillness of a tide pool #DailyHaikuPrompt

The magical little cottage smiles in yellow stella daylilies, sending May off in style and welcoming sunny June.

so much rainfall the garden's secret has eaten the wall

Untitled Another perfect morning, the air still so clear I can follow the progress of sunlit gnats on the other side of the yard. A pileated woodpecker drums a quarter mile away. A vireo says "vireo" once and stops.

Good Morning English painter Stephanie Lambourne Homely happy art

“Islands in the Sky,” a crowd-funded graphic anthology, depicts Hurricane Helene through the stories of its survivors #books

Art by Femke Muntz 🐝🎈

From grateful.org

They drank their tea and the old house settled around them, its pipes pinging, its windows inviting a slight draft from somewhere, while outside the longest night of the year held the city in a deep and patient darkness. #excerpt

Art by David Pogran ⭐️

James Browne illustration, 2016.

the creek has swollen and crested its bank all my life I've watched what I've said

Art by Marcel Witte🤍

abandoned garden fountains of dock and nettle found hallelujahs