Sitting Still

 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.

Integrity

 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.

Our Soul's Reality

 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.

Ever So Sweet

 Featured image: Orange Finch

Soft cheep cheep cheep
Of the finch
Their chorus
Their melody
Ever so sweet

The Mind

 Featured image: Your Mind Sings: Listen

The mind that is stretched to a new idea never returns to its original dimension.  Oliver Wendell Holmes

 Featured image: Winter River

The air is very thin in winter. Moisture frozen to

pines and maples. Cool ice colors cover, white greens and brown. Where not so long ago trees were covered with warm color.

A single coppery brown oak leaf shivers in the breeze.

Winter has a different kind of stillness. Sitting quietly in winter.

Your Place

 Featured image: Heading Home

Do I miss you when you are gone?

Do I rejoice when you return?

Your place, your special place

Your place on this earth

Your place on this earth.