To see stars that are very faint you need to avert your gaze. To see them, you don’t look straight at them. You pretend, oh so casually, to look elsewhere. You sneak up on them unawares. You side-eye them.
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Feeling out of the step with the world is an uncomfortable thing.
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Last evening I was called into the night by an owl
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They were flying in every direction. In pairs and threes, groups of five or more. They go every which way, crossing paths, splitting off, groups coming together, parting and patterning the sky.
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Run your hand over the hydrangea head. Only when it sounds papery is it ready to pick
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Out walking, I stepped well away from the road when a car was coming. After the car passed I went to take a step, looked down and found this at my feet.
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I have created a playlist of my nature-related poems…
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I worked the seed heads in my hands, round and round, pressing my thumb as you would with a clay pot. I could feel the layers of thin stems pressing together, becoming tangled.
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Would you like a free copy of Lullaby for Mothers, for you or to give to a friend?
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I found this beautiful video created by Dennis Hlynsky showing the flight patterns of birds and insects.
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This summer my daughter and I read The Borrowers…
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Such busyness. Such relentless directed effort in building a nest…
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There’s nothing like going from a valley to the shore to blow the sides out completely…
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Things are falling in the most beautiful way…
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Following swallows…
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Postcards from moments at home this summer…
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