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 […]
Read MoreDeep 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.
Read MoreIn 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 […]
Read MoreThe 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 […]
Read MoreMoonlight brightens the riverbank,
Starlight drapes across the sky,
The river nourishes the plants,
…and I simply behold.
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 […]
Read MoreIn 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, […]
Read MoreI 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.
Read Moreno need to read, just listen. this was music from our back creek this morning.
Read Moresome 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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