The truth is humbling, terrifying, and often exhilarating. It blows the doors off the hinges and fills the world with fresh air.
Augusten Burroughs
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Tags: Pike's Peak, Quoting
Moon and sun, and planets in the pre-dawn!
Grateful for rising early.
Venus, Saturn, Mars, Jupiter, a satellite whizzing.
Get up, get dressed, get out. GO!
The geese are quiet,
Watching the bald eagle in the tree.
A companion calls and they are both off, winged acrobats, climbing and falling, flapping and soaring.
Heart singing and geese now squawking.
Crows cawing.
The frost crunching. Hands cold.
Breath steaming. Heart thumping.
It is wonderful to be alive!
Colleen Sohn
Tags: Gardening + Nature, My Poetry
The promise of early daylight…
A slow amble with friends through the Phipps twinkle lights. Singing. Sparkling conversation. Laughter. The air heady with paperwhites and orchids redolent of Christmas itself. Magic!
Tags: Pittsburgh
Popped out for a walk the other day and this greeted me on the front steps. I watched for a long time, the slow, deliberate steps, and gave a shout to the hubster to come see. We scooped it up onto a leaf before the mailman had a chance to blindly squish it, and thanked it for coming.
Tags: Gardening + Nature
