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Tag Archives: bird watching
regrets?
as i sit in traffic pondering other pathways, wondering how inquiry turns to regret, beside me s small flock of small egrets reminds me – i am never alone. i am surrounded by birds, and people, and cars and trucks and … Continue reading
Posted in The Now
Tagged bird watching, car travel, driving, eco-chaplaincy, eco-ministry, eco-mysticism, eco-spirituality, egrets, highways, nature, poetry, SBNR, snowy egret, spirituality, stuck in traffic, sumi-e, traffic jams
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a morning flights and birds of pray
Shadows beating rhythms on the grasses at my feet, Angels? I look up – a giant swallowtail butterfly swoops onto elderberry blooms. i stand opening my arms, i am engulfed – enrobed in a shadow – soft, blue fleeting- i … Continue reading
Posted in The Now
Tagged art, bird, bird watching, birds of prey, eco-chaplaincy, eco-ministry, eco-mysticism, enlightenment, faith, flight, ink brush meditation, kites, love, mediation, meditation, mysticism, nature, non-dual, poetry, prayer, shadows, soaring, spirituality, Swallow tail kite
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Focus
above my head a cardinal called. i looked up, but saw a hawk instead. the hawk was watching a cat in the grass. I screamed my prayer of safety. Everybody flew away from me. prayers get answered in the strangest … Continue reading
Posted in The Now
Tagged answered prayers, bird watching, cardinals, cats, hawks, ink brush meditation, ink brush painting, interfaith, outdoor cats, pray, prayers, predatory cats, prey, salvation, SBNR, spirituality, sumi-e
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Songs of Spring
the song of the whippoorwill echoes in my heart. i hear the howl of a wolf answer back. it is spring. rejoice in the rebirth of hope.
Posted in The Now
Tagged art, bird songs, bird watching, Easter, hope, howl, hymns of nature, nature, poetry, rebirth, SBNR, Spring, sumi-e, whip-poor-will, whippoorwill, wolf, wolves howl
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dining out
Posted in Winged wisdoms
Tagged beloved community, bird watching, carnism, community, ecology, ink brush painting, insect eaters, ornithology, racism, seed eaters, sparrows, spirituality, sumi-i, titmouse, vegan, warbler
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drumming
the ground is frozen. ice creates glass garments on the ferns temporarily given them a temporary air of permanence and yet the drum beat of spring sounds thru the woods. breakfast!
winter sky
sitting outside, black lace against blue, i look to You. my fingertips hold my consciousness, as do Your wings, in the stillness all is flight.
Cardinal callings
i have been called – called out and called to – and it is time to take flight
Posted in Cardinal Rules, Winged wisdoms
Tagged art, bird, bird watching, birds, calling, cardinals, eco-ministry, eco-spirituality, female cardinals, flight, interspecies spirituality, love, nature, poetry, spirituality, sumi-e, women's ordination
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