Tag Archives: river

You are like water, you change, but you’re there.

I received a compliment Wednesday on this blog. You know how you sometimes get negative feedback and sometimes receive positive feedback on your posts? Once, several months ago, I complained about a negative comment, which broke my heart temporarily.  (Don’t … Continue reading

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Ordinary extra-ordinary kindness

The mail just arrived in our mailbox. My mom’s good friend, Rose, from Florida–and originally from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan (Lake Linden) when she was a young girl–sent a Christmas card. She included a clipping from the Fort Myers … Continue reading

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Dance of river and ice

The river prepares to abandon its surface fluidity, its motion, its never-ceasing flow. It prepares to bed down for the winter in underwater streams.  It pulls its cover of snow and ice over ceaseless movement and abandons deeper into itself. We can learn … Continue reading

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Infinity

 

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Gratitude down to your tippy-toes

  Good evening.   It’s a dreary dismal night here in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.  Not raining now, but damp and dark.  We just finished eating wild leek curry.  Anyone surprised?  I steamed some wild leeks-carrots-celery and added some pre-packaged chili curry.  … Continue reading

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Here’s looking at you, Kid.

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The gift of flow

  All around us the world flows.  It flows in streams and rivers and lakes and oceans.  It also flows in the depths of our being, between cells, between the river which connects our heart with our hands and feet.  … Continue reading

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Palm Sunday with fishermen at the Big Huron River

 Of course, I forgot it was Palm Sunday until evening.  But it was, indeed.  The afternoon felt downright chilly.  In the 30’s.  Brrrr…. You have to layer your exterior clothing again.  First, find a hooded sweatshirt.  Then wrap the fleece … Continue reading

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