One could be negative and say I'm stuck, or one could be positive and say I'm on a roll. Saturday and Tuesday I posted about the daily walks I've been taking and I shared pictures of my discoveries. Wednesday I shared a non-fiction picture book about the painstaking work done by a scientist in the field, this time, a "new" island off the coast of Antarctica. Time, curiosity, imagination all play a role in my quest, along with a love of nature.
Then, after a couple of days of clearing shelves and rearranging my office, I found an old article I had saved from the New York Times, "Finding Zen in a Patch of Nature". It feels like a small extra "push" to keep going, see what more I can find and learn!
From this article: "You can live a perfectly happy life having never heard of Shakespeare, but your life is in some ways a little diminished because there's such beauty there. And I think the same is true of nature. Much of it is useless to us, and that's O.K. It's not true that every species that goes extinct is like another rivet off the plane and the plane's going to crash. We lost the passenger pigeon and the U.S. economy did not tank. But we lost the passenger pigeon and we lost some of this remarkable music made out of atoms and DNA."
"The Earth has its music for those who will listen." George Santayana
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| on my walk to the library |
Winter’s List
shadow tableaus
sunshine days
winding paths
wandering ways
patterned rocks
fallen cones
birds in flight
flutter zones
bits of snow
lots of freeze
grass rustles
in the breeze
rusty leaf
loss of fall
acorn stash
squirrel’s mall
rotting log
insects wait
hidden lives
hibernate
time to see
outdoor fair
wonders wait
in open air
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