hello there, friend,
what a gift today has been. church was cancelled and i found myself on the couch curled up under a quilt with coffee and a book for most of the morning. by noon i knew i needed to get out despite the freezing temperatures. i bundled up and headed out... the sun was shining (although the wind was whipping).
i found myself listening to an interview with mary oliver. she talked about her connection to nature, how it healed her, how she learned to notice and pay attention. how it takes practice... both the noticing and the writing of poetry.
i was walking one of my favorite loops, one i actually had time for because there was absolutely nothing that i had to do. it meanders through farmland where leaves and snow were blown up against fence rows, where shorn corn stalks were poking up out of the fields, where winter weeds grow alongside the trail, where pairs of bluebirds perched on the branches of smaller trees and whole flocks of white crowned sparrows were flying from a sycamore tree looking for seeds and grit. and all the this below a clear blue sky.
and i was so grateful, so grateful that the arc of my life has allowed me to look and to wonder, that somewhere along the way, i stopped to notice and pay attention.
xo,
b
