Creatively Thinking

Featured image:  Rainbow Windows Tiny crystal of light Glistens Suns light Brings hope.

  Featured image:  Our Connections zebra stripe across back black white crown and mask red tuft

  Featured image:   Big Pine and Chickadee Today, pine tree covered in snow, Queen Tree, sheltering many birds in winter. Glistens in The sun. We rescued that little pine along the road, Over 15 years ago. We were walking home, along a dirt road that led home. We stopped. We knew, that little pine was doomed to be vanished by spring. The snowplow has no Mercy. So we scooped her up with our hands and took her home. Planted her in our backyard. Today she is our Queen Tree so filled with beauty.

  Featured image:   Mom's Yellow Iris Holding her hand, watching her sleep I gently imprinted my Mom’s hand into a piece of clay. She passed later that day. She is always with me as I place my hand exactly on hers in that clay. Today my hand fits hers exactly.

Featured image:  Circus Lions and Acrobats Another memory of my grandfather Emil was the story he told me about my freckles. He told me that for every good thing I did I got another freckle, and that I had so many freckles that they were running together. I personally knew I hadn’t been that good, but I sure liked that story of his.

  Featured image:  Grandmother's Shawl “Grandfather,” I asked, “Why do you have a mustache?” Secretly, I didn’t like his mustache because it scratched when he kissed me on the cheek. “My dear child, if I didn’t have one what would I dust off my cookies with?” I couldn’t answer that one. As I knew cookies didn’t need dusting because I didn’t have a mustache and I ate cookies all the time. Shortly after that conversation with my grandfather I went off to camp. When I returned a month later my grandfather had passed away. I never knew my grandparents very well, but have snatches of memories of them that have stayed with me my entire life like the cookie duster. Memories are how we live forever, and the life cycle continues into infinity.

  Featured image:   Tree of Life A tree Touches the blue sky heaven can be a link between heaven and earth, and the never-ending cycle of life. A tree all things natural all things yes yes yes Frost on the branches Glitter on her Crown against blue blue Sun emerges    

  Featured image:   Dove I saw her broad white under wing band and now her beautiful red crown peeks above a silver pine.

  Featured image:   Fields Along the Edge of the River Living like a river Flowing crystal clear Carried by current Wind and surprise Unfolding

  Featured image:  As The Wind Blows Perfect scoops of breeze And Wings Pines Silver green Dance with Wind song

  Featured image:  Green Trees on the Mountain Woods gathering Fragments of sound Filled with silver white A temple for listening

  Featured image:   Black Bird Above shy-ly She waits Taking her moment Squirrels gone Blackbird Lands in the White white snow

  Featured image:   At Peace Sitting still Delighted to be where I am Sensing the Woods. These woods Hold all the Yes, yes, yes-es Of the natural, Including a Gentle footprint And hopeful Prayers that Happen in Solitude.

  Featured image:   Fences I learned a long time ago that I need to live with integrity and my integrity should be guided by my principles. While the word integrity is loaded down with many philosophical discussions and debate, I find it suits me so I describe myself that way. I found this definition of the work integrity: Integrity is the practice of being honest and showing a consistent and uncompromising adherence to strong moral and ethical principles and values. In ethics, integrity is regarded as the honesty and truthfulness or accuracy of one's actions. Wikipedia Recently, in the local newspaper John Bates in his column ended with this quote and I thought I would share it with you in case you don’t get the paper or may have missed it. “Every human has four endowments – self-awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom… The power to choose, to respond, to change.” Stephen Covey.

  Featured image:   Balance My sense of the real, the nature of things, is the same as my sense of the natural.  And my sense of the natural is linked to my sense of our/my spirit and soul, beauty.  That is the beauty within us that shines throughout our spirit and our soul.

  Featured image:   Orange Finch Soft cheep cheep cheep Of the finch Their chorus Their melody Ever so sweet