Melting Snow

 Featured image: Springtime Thaw

water
melting snow
steams along
the walking path
currents of energy
flow
ripples
as a child, I created. 
twig boats 
floating 
with the
current
downstream
boats journey
my journey

Freely Flowing

 Featured image: Fields Along The Edge Of The River

like a river

flowing

like open air

freely blowing 

wind

unravels……

you

Pie Filling

 

Featured image: The Pie

Soul is like a pie

Filled with fruitful

Delight

Cocooned in 

Flakey crust.

Emily Dickinson

 

Featured image: Springtime Robin

Every once in awhile, wonderful things just seem to come out of the blue. They always lead me on a very special magical journey. Fresh, exciting ideas don’t pop into my head very often, but when they do I am ever so grateful. My blog, “Oh It’s Just,” has led me on a wonderful journey of exploring birds. I have been painting birds for quite some time now and the ideas keep flowing. I wonder if they will all become something other than a sketch.

But my heart is filled with hope – and I continue……….

“Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops at all.” Emily Dickinson.

History

 Featured image: Scattering Seeds

I believe in history. I believe that we all have a unique one-of-a-kind history that influences who we are and what we do. So when you are reading a history about something, ask yourself, "Does this historian ask a how questions or why questions and write accordingly or does this historian ask why questions, causing them to come up with predetermined answers that follow a linear thought process?" Ask yourself, "Why are historical museums organized in a linear pattern rather that in a pattern that more resembles a rhizome?" There is the root and then branches of possibilities.

Let It Be

 Featured image: Travelers

there is a way of knowing

not mechanical

not taught

but flowing 

within us

we just need to

let it emerge

Simple Delights

 Featured image: Little Bird

Such a gift, 

the birds

A small reflection of

life.

Dancing about 

at the feeder

spontaneous then

gathering on the platform 

Like folks gather to have 

coffee together.

Such a simple delight.