The simple pleasures of life in and beyond the stream…

November 7, 2020

Two insights lead me beyond this stream, this time. The water didn’t start here; the life didn’t start here either. The very fact it’s flowing shows there is water around and before this place and time. This place, this moment, reveals the gathering essence upstream of here. Downstream matters too. In this moment the stream […]

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Forest stream

More streaming lessons I am learning from the forest floor.

November 1, 2020

Deep in rainforest I am learning more and more about the world within me, as well as the cosmos around us. Growing [mostly] begins with seeking light, and there is more than one way of living here.

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Forest springs streaming lessons that fill my heart.

October 29, 2020

In this digital era, I enjoyed a streaming lesson I really don’t think a computer could ever offer me. Tarra-Bulga National Park embraced us, invited us to sit down, shut up, and take it in.  Here in Gippsland, Victoria, Australia rests a deep dark green welcome and invitation to walk, sit, breath, and behold. Looking out […]

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Into the wild of this grace…

July 18, 2020

The song below matches the photo above.  I’ll say why in a moment. There are two wonders here: nature’s art, and my own soul’s deep knowing. I fill with wonder as Nature changes her colour palate at day’s end. Warm rich tones spill across vistas during what photographers call the ‘golden’ or ‘magic’  hour [which […]

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simply behold…

July 5, 2020

Moonlight brightens the riverbank,
Starlight drapes across the sky,
The river nourishes the plants,
…and I simply behold.

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What wonder has happened here?

May 10, 2020

what wonder has happened here? that she, of yorkshire blood, should bring a young australian into life that she, of yorkshire dales, should embrace antipodean hardships for a better future. It is such a wonder, for she has sown and watered, even into me: strident gentleness and vulnerably sensative, preserving cheekiness and novel expressiveness curious […]

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rich and rough roads – Psalm 23

May 2, 2020

In rich and rough ways; touch and terror meet.  Generations have found they way towards and within Psalm 23. The guide questions offer caring company.  Whatever your responses, we aren’t alone in our seeking and our blessing . That said, some of these questions twist and wrangle; this is still hard. Our wanting is known, […]

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Rainbows in the night.

April 7, 2020

I need rainbows at night –  much more than the day.

In the day I’ve some hope of finding my way around; remembering where and why I’m walking.

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Joy of listening

April 3, 2020

no need to read, just listen. this was music from our back creek this morning.

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seeing the seasons

some may say seasons have reasons i suppose this may be so but it seems to me that seeing the seasons through seems quite enough

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