About

gathering
blackberries and day lilies
as a five year old
this passion for wild things
still lives in me

Bamboo Hut Vol 2 Issue 1

 My Blogs

The Healthy Nut   –  the first blog I created  after retiring from a career in nursing.  My  care plan to maintain myself physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually.    Meander along with me in the garden, in the kitchen, out hiking, curling up with a good book and wherever else this crazy life leads me.  Here is where you’ll find photos, some poetry and a recipe or two when the spirit moves me to cook something good! I wrote lots of poetry on this blog until I decided to move my poetic musings to Wabi Sabi poems and images in November of 2012.

Wabi Sabi –  poems and images!  This blog has become a compilation of my published  poems and haiga over the past nine years.

Wabi – simple, humble, in tune with nature, ‘understands the wisdom of rocks and grasshoppers.’ Tadao Ando
Sabi – patina or  tarnishing that comes with age and the acceptance of impermanence and imperfection.

Although there is much more to the wabi-sabi aesthetic, for me it means finding beauty in imperfection – my own and the world’s.   I make poems and art with quiet joy and the knowledge that all is fleeting.

Take Off Your Sandals – I am blessed to have found a way that seems to work for me, to touch the Spirit that dwells in all things, including me.  I listen daily to this Spirit, using the words in various sacred books, including the Bible,  nature, walking, meditation and yoga to help me hear. Take Off Your Sandals, a recently conceived blog,  is an evolving record of this journey.

 

              

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