Just saw my first hawk moth a little while ago, and it's kind of a crazy coincidence! Earlier this evening I started watching a South Korean film called "House of Hummingbird", and I paused at it one point to research whether or not hummingbirds are native to South Korea.

"My work is loving the world" #collage #papercollage #cutandpaste #MaryOliver #Messenger

Mary Oliver, Thirst, 2006 #poetry #poem #MaryOliver

Friday selfie for the shell of it. 🐚

Good morning 🌞

“Maybe our world will grow kinder eventually.” -Mary Oliver #NationalPoetryMonth (Franz Marc was a brilliant expressionist painter who died of a shrapnel wound to the brain in WWI)

God, grant me the serenity to be a functional and loving human under the weight of all of the horrors I cannot physically/mentally process or accept.

God this poem is haunting me again.

Carol Lynn Pearson, A Widening View, 1983 #poetry #poem #CarolLynnPearson

Mary Oliver, Thirst, 2006 #poetry #poem #MaryOliver

Mary Oliver, Thirst, 2006 #poetry #poem #MaryOliver "and you too have come / into the world to do this, to go easy, to be filled / with light, and to shine"

The first baby eagle of the season hatched this evening on the Big Bear eagle cam ❤️🦅🥚

Mary Oliver, Thirst, 2006 #poetry #poem #MaryOliver

I confess that, at times, I resist joy for fear of its loss, or because something bad is happening or is about to happen. "Don't be afraid of its plenty" calls me in the opposite direction. I'm grateful. #NationalPoetryMonth

Feels like a perfect day to share this video... youtu.be/XTi25D4AbmQ?...

Still thinking about this little guy. When I wasn't filming, he flew within inches of my head a few times. I eventually sat down in the grass to watch him, and a family with small kids joined me, while the sun was setting. A very sweet memory. ❤️

Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1850, Sonnets from the Portuguese #poetry #poem #ElizabethBarrettBrowning

Conclave (2026)

Günaydın ☕️

"The buried stream" #collage #papercollage #cutandpaste #MatthewArnold #TheBuriedLife #poetry #poem "A man becomes aware of his life's flow / And hears its winding murmur..."

"Look at the birds of the air" (March 2025) #collage #papercollage #birds

‘We all have forests in our minds. Forests unexplored, unending. Each one of us gets lost in the forest, every night, alone.’ ~ Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wind's Twelve Quarters. #BookWormSat #InternationalDayOfForests 🖼️ Woodland, Ivan Shishkin.

Curve-billed thrasher and friends

Loon earrings for a loon

From "The Buried Life", Matthew Arnold, 1852 #poetry #poem #MatthewArnold

Just realized I hit 2.5 today when I pulled up my tracker...

"Soul birds of a feather flock together" youtu.be/DP1GXkKEpYQ?...

"Let me know the way" #collage #papercollage #cutandpaste #thelongandwindingroad

Today is my birthday—🌸 I'm sharing a poem I wrote for my mom. History of Me —I was five The first time I remember crossing the street alone, I looked back and saw My mom waving/That was the first time I misunderstood —Leaving/ Leaving became a habit of others or me/ You can run -or stay

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Breakfast for towhees

"When anxious, uneasy, and bad thoughts come, I go to the sea, and the sea drowns them out with its great wide sounds, cleanses me with its noise, and imposes a rhythm upon everything in me that is bewildered and confused." ~ Rainer Maria Rilke

Gently read... • Wendell Berry •

I think of this prayer in moments of anxiety when I feel overwhelmed and unable to process the weight of the world or my life. But sometimes the first part of the prayer rubs me the wrong way. How can I accept what I can barely fathom?