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Category Archives: Gratitudes
Shining
Today I am grateful for dung beetles. Without your iridescence, I would have really stepped in it.
Parrot speak
Copying Coos and Repeating Hellos, screeches, cries and meaningful sighs – in true freedom of speech I can say anything and so can you. I am grateful for listening … Continue reading
Posted in Gratitudes, Poems
Tagged brush painting, gratitude, spirituality, thanks, true freedom
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Puddles and Polliwogs
I change in a puddle, I grow. On this longest day, I am aware of the sun and the shade and I am aware of my puddle evaporating. I am so grateful for … Continue reading
Posted in Gratitudes, Poems, Quandaries
Tagged evolution, gratitude, longest day, nature, polliwogs, solstice, survival, tadpoles, thanks, transformation
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Grace
Caterpillars eat the leaves of my passion flower vine. Food for thought. For this daily bread, I give thanks. (I am so full I may pop.)
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Tagged caterpillars, food for thought, grace, gratitude, maypop, nature, passion flower vine, spirituality, thanks
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You can loose your tail, but not your head. One will grow back, the other – you’re dead. I am grateful for small lizards who re:MIND me, continuously.
Posted in Gratitudes, Poems
Tagged brush painting, gratitude, lizard, lizards, mind, mindfulness, spirituality, tao, thanks, zen
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See: Horses & ponies
I am grateful for seahorses and sea ponies. What you don’t see ponies? ……..just a little horse? Take some vinegar and honey and call me love. I give thanks for … Continue reading
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Tagged father's day, fathers, gratitude, nature, ponies, seahorses, thanks, transforming, vinegar and honey
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who nose?
I do not know, do you? I’ll ask the cat, how ’bout that? I give thanks for noses, and knowing: feline and mine.
Claws
a pause for claws…… I am grateful for claws that retract. and those that don’t.
Dragons or Fairies
Dragons or fairies, both fly to my rescue, again and again. Myth you say, oh fly away, I was here before you.
Posted in Gratitudes, Poems, Statements of Faith
Tagged brush painting, dragonfly, fairy, gratitude, ink brush meditiation, myth, nature, salvation
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Bear with me
Bear with me, please – I am no teddy, or plush panda – are you ready? I can bare my heart as easily as teeth are bared, and I am grateful for growls, But I would rather sit here. In … Continue reading
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