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Tag Archives: ecology
Hope
Finally, sand bags were filled, Stacked up like little sentries, ready to lay down to protect home and hearth… But what protects hope? I don’t know, Perhaps it is up to all of us… Today hope hopped all over the … Continue reading
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Tagged animal assisted chaplaincy, animals, blessings, brush painting, compassion, daily practice, eco-chaplaincy, eco-ministry, eco-mysticism, eco-spirituality, ecology, Elizabeth Teal., florida, hope, hurricanes, ink brush painting, interspecies spirituality, love, meditation, mindfulness, nature, nature is my religion, poetry, sand bags, SBNR, spiritual direction, spirituality, sumi-e, theology, tree frogs
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smoke signals
the cats came to the doors, crying. the skies were covered with yellow grey clouds everything was edged with burnt orange and smoke….. as they ran inside, we went out, in wonder. ashes fell gently from the sky, like snow. … Continue reading
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Tagged animal assisted chaplaincy, black cat, cats, eco-spirituality, ecology, ecospirituality, forest fires, global warming, ink brush painting, lightening fires, nature, Okefenokee Swamp, poetry, Spiritual ecology, spirituality, sumi-e, swamp fires, tao, weird weather, zen
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Round
be Eden. or Mother. or simply your home…. Respect is in order… for whatever your beliefs – we all live here now, and now we must do something to help our Eden Or Our Mother, but most certainly Home for … Continue reading
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Tagged call, climate change, earth day, eco-chaplaincy, eco-ministry, eco-mysticism, eco-spirituality, ecology, Eden, faith, feathered, fined, furred, global warming, home, interspecies spirituality, interspirituality, nature, poetry, sacred activism, scaled, spirituality, weird weather
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soar, dive, fly
the peregrine falcon is the fastest bird we know – diving… the albatross is faster however on the horizontal. yet if we are speaking of terminal velocity — we all get where we are going, even if we might not … Continue reading
Posted in Winged wisdoms
Tagged albatross, arc bends toward justice, birds of prey, dive, eco-chaplaincy, eco-ministry, eco-mysticism, eco-spirituality, ecology, falconry, flight, hope, ink brush painting, interspecies spirituality, interspirituality, Moby Dick, mysticism, nature, peregrine falcons, poetry, progress, soar, spirituality, sumi-e
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Reality
I am cleaning in a room i never clean – perhaps it is because the room is painted to look like you are outside – even the curtains are leaves and twigs and covered with birds — then i realize … Continue reading
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Tagged anoles, birds, brush painting, cleaning, climate change, curtains, Earth centered spirituality, eco-ministry, eco-spirituality, ecology, global warming, housework, love, nature, poetry, reality, sumi-e, survival, truth, washing
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lesson from some birds
they say that birds of a feather flock together… as if to validate ideas that segregate – but observation tells a truer story, even if our feathers don’t match – we all share the same air, and we land on … Continue reading
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Tagged air, birds, birds of a feather, cranes, ducks, eco-chaplaincy, eco-ministry, eco-mysticism, eco-spirituality, ecology, feathers, flight, herons, ink brush painting, interfaith, interspecies spirituality, nature, pigeons, spirituality, sumi-e, together, tolerance, unity
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Dragons!
There be DRAGONS!!! just small ones, whose fiery red throats show the heat of their passion…. of course they are invasive! did you not notice that they are dragons? but then again, we are GIANTS…..
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Tagged animal assisted chaplaincy, balance, brown lizard, cuban anole, De la Sagra's anole, dragons, eco-chaplaincy, eco-ministry, eco-mysticism, eco-spirituality, ecology, giants, ink brush painting, interspecies spirituality, interspirituality, invasive species, mysticism, nature, perspectives, poetry, spirituality, sumi-e
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Cawling
The mist is falling lightly as i stand outside to greet my day – a crow from somewhere unseen caws. searching i can not see You, here, i hear you. i must follow my cawling. It brightens me awake – … Continue reading
walk this way
no matter what your feathers or feet, we all waddle the same roads, and swim in the same pond.
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Tagged animal assisted chaplaincy, community, Drake Duck, eco-chaplaincy, eco-ministry, eco-mysticism, eco-spirituality, ecology, ink brush painting, interspecies spirituality, Mallard, muscovy duck, nature, one earth, pet ducks, poetry, sacred activism, spirituality, sumi-e, tolerance, unity, water fowl, wild ducks, wisdom
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