Prayers

Thinking of all the sad, tragic things that happen in our world.

Why is there so much hate?

How do we go about teaching love to those who don't feel it?

Just pray to whoever hears your words of hope.

Do you bow your head when you pray 

or do you look up into the blue space?

Take your choice, prayers fly,

from all directions.

Mary Oliver,  Felicity

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

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.

               
                                

Thanksgiving November 23

                                                                      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.

Thanksgiving November 22

                                          November 22

                                     Grateful for my home
                                     Yard and woods and porches too!
                                     

                         

                                     Happiness lives here!

Thanksgiving November 21

                                                       November 21

              Thankful for happy, laughing children at play!

Thanksgiving November 20

                                                                  November 20

                           
                                 A book, 
                                      a magazine or
                                          anything with stories!

                             Thankful for the joy of reading!