Whitewashing may be
the great breach of Light and Truth.
Just be still and know.
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Hernando’s Oath
Tag: environment
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Mother’s Day Morning
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Blooms Before Sunset
26 May 2024
Yesterday afternoon spring flowers grinned in their silence. These neighborhood suburban streets remained abandoned, much like the beginnings of 2020 when more crucial questions let Nature breathe. Maybe people were boardwalking the beaches, cheering military air shows, or swaying from one unbeatable faithful store sale to the next that most holidays bring.
I reached across the quiet to imagine the garden plants’ thoughts. This year the sage sprouts full, pale lavender flowers on every stem, guaranteeing a bouquet of savory leaves for summer dishes of garlic sage butter for pasta to offer me memories lasting through winter risottos.
A childhood woodland past shadows my path as the small Mountain Laurel displays bright red buds, ready to spring into bright pink spring flowers. An occasional yellow leaf with blight reminds me this woodland plant needs special care in an unpredictable suburban neighborhood like this one. Apparently, we aren’t much different in that respect.
A newly purchased groundcover, Saponaria ocymoides (Rock Soapwort) reaches across barren, rocky dirt bringing pale pink flowers of prolific blooms that one can only pray will multiply and spread. Isn’t that the ultimate hope for all the goodness we try to accomplish?
And finally, after three years of questioning, the roses return with vibrancy and love, as if to guarantee that despite their absence, our directives as misfits that many learn to discover, we still grow among them, and are Loved.
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An Evening of Contemplation
17 March 2024
Taking a walk on the evening of St. Patrick’s Day, I absorb the quiet in my neighborhood. Beautiful weather likely facilitates crowds at parades and people probably gather locally and in Manhattan for loud celebrations. Here, all is overbuilt, but serene.
Mockingbirds caw, laugh, mimick, upsetting the calm that seeks to be – much like the chaos that has been unleashed lately by humanity’s disregard for their own outlined path of stewardship.
Know Thy Place. Walk humbly. But instead so many impose, struggle to keep balance and tend to overrun, dominate, with little regard for others. Build bigger, taller, charge more, regardless of the overload on the system. Signs are visible in the neighborhood. Borders and boundaries stretched to limits, just because…paid in cash
The land will swell, rise, and fall. Sink holes will open to engulf and swallow neighborhoods because laws have been transformed for pieces of silver, as Earth is betrayed.
And the leaders in their neatly pressed business suits, dry-cleaned with toxicity, will feign ignorance and invent excuses. While many who have heard, listened, countered, and remembered for years will recognize and continue to proclaim their truth as laws change to bend for bankrolls.
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Cosmic Color Palette
30 September 2023
As the rains and floods in the metro NY and Long Island areas came to a three-day close, the Heavens spoke silently to those who raised their eyes and hearts to feel, perceive and see.
Believe in Truth, and you shall still rise. Practice Love, and you shall still rise.
Trust in The Word, and you shall still rise. Become the Power of Goodness, and you shall still rise.
Then, The Unseen Hand began to swirl tones of French and English lavender, pinks and coneflowers onto the azure canvas that stretched from the sole horizon from East to West and from South to North into Eternity …and October began in brilliant sunshine.
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Healing Rain
24 Sept 2023
Before Ophelia brought three days of beneficial rain to a yearly regeneration of this backyard dotted with deep, destructive grasses and newly-seeded patches of microclover, I managed to remove some withered spots of crabgrass and weakening roots–a yearly chore that has continued over summers.
As the brilliant sunset of this International Day of Peace 2023 promises, we are part of cycles, tides, breezes, just as the Earth lives. And yes, it is difficult to remove the clinging damage of crabgrass that has been free to seed and spread. But, the brilliant green of microclover delights and extends by stolons–horizontal connections between organisms. They expand and reduce weeds, pests..with awareness, labor, and time…bringing beauty and healing.
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Genuine Labor
4 September 2023
Sometimes allowing silent actions to prompt observation, thought and experience succeed more than engaging in conversation.
Ripened grape tomatoes on the vine, small but particularly sweet this year made a smooth sauce for lunch on a cauliflower pizza crust. Tiny green zucchini, sliced thin and pan-roasted made the circular design. Finally, fresh mozzarella, leftover from yesterday’s weekly stop at the local Italian deli dotted the decorative, enhanced Margherita with a touch of basil.
All remains quiet as people recede from today’s heat & humidity. The earth and grass are parched in places, despite watering every other day. Many messages rise up for those who seek them, with accompanying thoughts.
Labor Day 2023 recipe: crushed garlic, evoo, blended garden tomatoes however small, drop in a few fresh basil leaves shredded and simmer your pizza sauce – dotting with fresh (leftover) mozzarella, garden baby zucchini slices on cauliflower crust. Bake at 400 for 10-12 minutes.
Incomparable, unprocessed taste gives simplicity, authenticity and work together — to make a pure, healthy point, understood through experience on Labor Day 2023.
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Nature’s Search for Equity
April 15, 2023
Learn to be silent and recognize yourself as a humble part of Nature & you may be given gifts. Today through an unseasonable spring, and after a dry but safe winter, struggling white blossoms strain their petals to appear on cherry and Goji bushes. Though not as many as in years past.
Alone? Mastermind? Or are we an integral part of this intricately woven Pattern of Life?
Feel the gift and strength of being part, however small yet essential, of such a glorious Plan and relinquish the fantasy of control to mutual respect, care, stewardship, awe & admiration for all creation connected to you.
