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A Garden Needs Weeding
Yellow Tiger Swallowtail Ruby-throated Hummingbird In my garden I am Weeding I know not the names of the weeds They surround my plants I do know my back and leg muscles Will ache the next day I am on my knees Two hours on my knees I think this is a form of prayer Man…
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God’s Tiny Flying Ballerinas
Thursday morning A hummingbird At the feeder I imagine It is God’s Tiny flying ballerina Dancing from feeder to flower The garden of zinnias Pink and yellow and red and orange I must hurry To photograph The tiny ballerina The tiny dancer Moves so quickly Here then gone Not like the swallowtail Spending all morning…
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About October
I began the month with great expectations. Read the Bible daily. Practice yoga daily. Write daily. This I didn’t accomplish. But Susan and I did begin a new season of volunteering in the Bridges Together Program . Here are two of our students–4th graders. I made some delicious food. Here is a meatloaf with mushroom…
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Welcome October
I love October! “I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers,” wrote L.M. Montgomery in Anne of Green Gables. Me, too!!! Picture-perfect evidence of God’s majesty surround us. Magnificent autumn leaves invite us to see the beauty that envelops us. At Mittineague Park, the park down the street from where we…