aint' it the truth though

Little drops of water,
Little grains of sand
Make the mighty ocean,
And the pleasant land.
Thus the little minute,
Humble though they be,
Make the mighty ages
Of eternity. 

–Julia A. Fletcher (1823–1908

plant a seed, teach the people

 never saw this quote.............with all the world in some kind of jeopardy, my mind first goes toward the global warming and then snaps back to the political..........the idea of planting trees, which was the key revolution for Kenya and the peace that people like Wangari Matthai brought to her country through a green, planting trees, civil action - seems mild and maybe not enough. But somewhere along the line of my life i remember reading a great poem that ended each new thought with 'that's enough' - or maybe I made that one up in my head. the idea was simple. that with each thoughtful, communal action, know that it was enough. it was what you could do then and there.  or maybe it was about blessings? that each good thing was enough to fulfill your life?  maybe that was it.  what is enough in terms of our personal wish to help with so many places, people and programs needing that support?  I don't know. But i never saw this quote and i really like the hope that's implied in our ability to create positive change - immediate and long term

plant a seed, teach the people

 never saw this quote.............with all the world in some kind of jeopardy, my mind first goes toward the global warming and then snaps back to the political..........the idea of planting trees, which was the key revolution for Kenya and the peace that people like Wangari Matthai brought to her country through a green, planting trees, civil action - seems mild and maybe not enough. But somewhere along the line of my life i remember reading a great poem that ended each new thought with 'that's enough' - or maybe I made that one up in my head. the idea was simple. that with each thoughtful, communal action, know that it was enough. it was what you could do then and there.  or maybe it was about blessings? that each good thing was enough to fulfill your life?  maybe that was it.  what is enough in terms of our personal wish to help with so many places, people and programs needing that support?  I don't know. But i never saw this quote and i really like the hope that's implied in our ability to create positive change - immediate and long term

after Stalking Wolf, Apache Elder, from I'm a moose

Grandmother, eagle woman and sister of the crow women

Who dance in circles that keep the eternal connection open and powerful - 

You have been a strong and constant presence in my life

 and I seek you when I go to my spirit home.

 I trust you and have deep respect for your presence.

 I feel the deep connections you have to the great spirits, the elements of living beings 

bodies of water, to the plants and trees, the movement of all with the wind and through

 their own unwinding energies.

Deep mother, grandmother, I’m grateful for your presence in my life.

Teach me to surrender the energies that do me no good to the column of wind and fire that 

turns with the crow woman’s dancing and keeps the eternal connections between the worlds.

Show me how to be tenacious and use the energies I have to move like the rivers, to bend

wth their flow, to follow the trails and winding movement of streams, under the sun and 

moon toward the place where you sit and hold us in an embrace of love and wings.

everything is a weave

If you would imagine the visual and physical weaving and changing and shifting and fractaling of everything that is memory, life as it is, time, living, the mundane, the sun or wind, the sounds of birds; or even Molly's chortle - all are a part of our interior worlds. All are a facet that we can pull from that brain or heart or combination thereof that is warmed by the channels of our blood and comes to our ability to talk it or share it somehow through the fusion of electrical energy and our shaping it through the wheel of our beings. Geesh. It's just a flat out miracle really.  All of everthing in the interior of our brains and souls and spirits, that is what I saw as Mrs. Scattergood's world and wanted to share through the narrator's voice in riding the waves. The relationship we have with the world around us includes nature. It includes the air, the wind, the earth we touch. But we forget that we touch earth. Instead, many people walk around and pay no mind to the earth beneath them.  Of course, even those who do make the connection and have the awareness of the earth, of nature, and the elements, aren't always connected to that awareness.  It's probably not possible to always have that awareness riding alongside the walking and traveling you must do; or the interactions you have throughout your day.  My wish though is that somewhere in everyone's day, at least one moment was connected to earth, to nature, to feeling the wind or any element that is the life of the planet. If we're not connected it's hard to care. The more connected, the more care.  I am riding this believe.  That's my wave today.