Reliable Joys: November 2015

Thursday, November 26, 2015

Thanksgiving Day 2015 November 26

November 26

Thankful for the time spent with family

and this life I live.

"To be truly free one must take on the basic conditions

as they are - painful, impermanent, open, imperfect -

and then be grateful for impermanence

and the freedom it grants us.

For in a fixed universe there would be no freedom.

With that freedom we improve the campsite,

teach children, oust tyrants.

The world is nature, and in the long run inevitably wild,

because the wild,

as the process and essence of nature,

is also an ordering of impermanence."

~Gary Snyder

Tuesday, November 24, 2015

Thanksgiving November 24

November 24

Thanksgiving is about food and eating food.
Thankful to have recipes handed down
and being able to prepare them for my family.

Monday, November 23, 2015

November 23

It is getting very close to Thanksgiving Day, a special day to give thanks for our home, food to eat and people in our lives. But for me this is every day, thankful for just being alive for another day; to enjoy life, to be happy in what I have and where I am.

It does not take much to make me happy..I even like acorns that will make you twist your ankle if you walk on them. They fall from the oaks all over the yard along with their friends, the oak leaves. This year, the oak leaves were not even pretty, just a dull brown that was so blah. The acorns have multiplied by the thousands even after they hit the ground..I know this as every day I go out and count them..there are 1,749,652 and that is not counting all the ones that are broke in half. And because the ground is so wet, they are sprouting those little tails that will make more oaks trees. I keep telling them we have enough and I will be raking until next spring but they just don't listen. So I will just sing to them as I rake..and stumble if I step on them the wrong way. They are beautiful! I am thankful I have oak trees to share my world.