In the Quiet

June 26, 2022

Well friends, it’s been A WEEK. Both personally and in our country. It seems like there should be so much to say and yet what I’m feeling inside is quiet. Feeling quiet inside is strange and unusual for me - I’m used to it being VERY noisy in there. I like the quiet. I feel a sense of not wanting to disturb it by talking (or writing) too much. And so I offer you the one photo I took this week, a poem from that quiet inner place, and some winter ducks I never got around to posting.

Sunrise, June 23, 2022

Sometimes the only thing 
I know is I believe in 
Love, for no reason 
my logical mind can 
accept.

I believe in Love, the
language of all things,
connecting us, one to another
like the roots of the giant redwood 
trees.

I believe that Love connects us
to all that has been and all that
will be, that we are never
alone, despite how we may
feel.

I believe it is Love that insists
we rise up when faced with
oppression and harm to
any of us, knowing it harms all of
us.

Love is stronger than 
fear, love is stronger than
hate, love will not be 
controlled or abide by our 
rules.

When things look dark
that is the time to find her,
Love, deep inside and let her
lift us to what comes
next.

Whatever is required on this
strange journey of life,
we walk the path together, 
leaning always into
Love.

Every season it seems I have an experience near the end I never quite get to posting. This winter it was these beautiful common mergansers. I waited all winter for them to come close. Then one magical day - February 14th - they did! I had the most marvelous time with them for one beautiful, quiet, cold, calm morning.

I never posted these photos but today they feel right to me. Is it synchronicity that they came on Valentine’s day, in the quiet, and here I am posting about Love?

(Note: Dark green heads are males and redheads are females.)

We never know from week to week where this journey will take us. The best we can do is follow it, one step at a time.

Wishing you all exactly what you need to feel supported this week.