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Tag Archives: florida
hopping
just after telling a friend how the little black grasshoppers here are damaging, (growing up to be giant multi-colored garden chopping devastators) i find myself in her shoes in my yard. Neither of us are very good at killing … Continue reading
Spring Summer
the blue eye met blue gill in the bluest green of clearest waters. sun streamed in around us as we swam together, Catfish and Bream, Mullets and me. baptized once again – healed or spared by grace (take your pick) … Continue reading
Posted in The Now
Tagged baptism, baptized, Bluegill Bream, catfish, eco-chaplaincy, eco-theology, florida, florida springs, grace, interspirituality, Mullet, mystic poetry, nature poetry, osprey, poetry, Salt Springs, Spirit, sumi-e, sunshine, swimming with the fishes, water color
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Peace time
walking around a fort, a castle, walking around a prison, walking around where there was once fear and uniforms, now are tired feet and costumes. the air is filled with suntan lotion and hope. and there You are, grinning a … Continue reading
beauty
sunset – sunrise, beauty is before me. beside me. behind me. how can you come into my home as if no one lived here? how are you so blind as to say – “there is nothing here?” Beauty is HERE. … Continue reading
Posted in The Now
Tagged beauty is before me, camping, developers, eco-mysticism, eco-spirituality, eco-theology, ecology, environmentalis, environmentalist, florida, landscape painting, nature, nature is my religion, pace, pax, saltlife, SBNR, Spiritual ecology, sumi-e, sunrise, sunset, wetlands
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swallowed
A giant pelican flew over me today I thought he might swallow me up. Perhaps he did.
Posted in The Now
Tagged beach, bird, birds, Christianity, flight, florida, fly, freedom, ink brush meditiation, jonah and the whale, meditation, nature, pelican, pelicans, spirituality, tao, theology, zen
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Swim Sister
Manati, You were four legged before you were finned – I was too, before I had feet. Your name means breast – you have my heart. Your song came to me from clear blue spring and ancient bone. Sister! We … Continue reading
Posted in Statements of Faith, The Now
Tagged Blue Springs, eco-spirituality, evolution, florida, hope, ink brush meditiation, ink brush painting, love, manatee, manatees, nature, sea cows, spirituality, wisdom
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