Another Happening
A solitary yellowing crocus murmurs of the silent greening underway beneath my mulched garden—snow-melt enlivening crawl spaces and sun warming root-rooms. Such eruptions leave the heart yearning for...
View ArticleSpring’s Kaleidoscope
Saturated earth stretches, turns cartwheels. Gold crocuses strut their stuff. Green-fire sizzles beneath stubbled lawns. Thorny lilac buds split their seams in laughter. Velvety moss creeps along creek...
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It happened again on our court, the second potluck since the beginning of 2015, this time to celebrate the onset of spring’s greening. It was evening. Hesitant breezes carried moist-earth smells,...
View ArticleWinterbite
“It’s only winterbite,” my gardener friend assured me, handing me several mottled leaves from the Christmas Hollys we’d planted last spring in my side yard. Her windblown cheeks, her bulky sweatshirts...
View ArticlePsychic Eruptions
Throughout my life, psychic eruptions have enveloped my senses within bliss, have demanded unheard-of changes, and have assuaged monstrous fears. Such turnarounds veiled their Source for decades, and...
View ArticleSummer Snowflake Viburnum
Beauty’s imprint upon the imagination unleashes streams of shimmering lights: wordless joys that warm chilled places. Such is my experience as I gaze out my study window that frames the Summer...
View ArticleSecond Crocus
From the side of the solitary crocus in my flowerbed another gleams in the sun, cheered by fresh greening—More winking from Creator God.
View ArticleSt. Patrick’s Breastplate
From smarming mists beyond telling emerged the Celtic Druids with their rituals, prayers, stories, and incantations that swelled their oral tradition for long centuries and steeped their followers in a...
View ArticleSpring
Each spring, an ancient fresco stirs my imagination and relocates me to another world in which greening is paramount. Only 38 x 22 cm in size, the fresco depicts the Roman Goddess Flora, barefoot, her...
View ArticleNew Grass
Among splotches of wintered grass appearing bleached and care worn appear surges of greening like bunches of giggling preteens at their first dance. It’s begun… Enjoy!
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