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When hurricane Ike ripped through Galveston, it killed more than 40,000 trees, including the magnificent stately old oaks on the main boulevard. As those of us who love Galveston grieved this loss and the recovery got underway, the city was finally able to pay contractors to cut and remove the dead trees, leaving all those [...]
Another simple miracle
I did not plan for it to happen. I hadn’t even thought about it, ever. I was simply out for my morning prayer walk: “Good morning, Father Sun, thank you for another day of life. Good morning, Auntie Moon, thank you for another night of peace. Good morning, Mother Earth, thank you for your beauty [...]
So I Hear
Held together by a shoestring.
Mama’s expression. String’s frayed.
Or duck tape. Coming unglued.
Hanging by a thread. Unraveling.
Over an abyss. Don’t look now.
It’s a war zone. All too much.
Everybody, it seems, is having
themselves a nervous breakdown.
A collective short circuit’s going on.
Sparks flying. Metaphysical
explanations everywhere you turn,
but the guru’s are baffled,
and the experts, [...]
An Incomparable Earthsprings Moment
Mostly I experience, absorb, wonder, and move on. Sometimes I just have to share…
Many of you have been to Earthsprings and know the folks who live here, like Tux the tomcat, for example. Some of you haven’t been to Earthsprings, so let me fill you in.
Several years ago Tux came up out of [...]
What We Assume
It wasn’t the raccoon, as I thought.
It was the old black crow who turned over
the cats’ metal bowls I had moved
way out to the picnic table
to escape the hissing ‘possom that otherwise
terrorizes the kitchen doorway at night.
Things are seldom what we assume.
This morning I walked in stars,
millions of tiny stars, blooming underfoot,
white, soft pink, with [...]