I’ve burrowed inside during the last week of snow, ice, the endless deluge of mudslide-threatening rain. Relief surges as I feel cold air on my face, my belly warm and soft with gratitude to be awake before the sun crests, in the pause before birdsong.
Archive for the ‘Holidays’ Category
New year’s wish: For eyes to see, ears to hear
Posted in New Year's, Winter on December 31, 2022 | 1 Comment »
Birdsong
Posted in Birds, Emotions/Inner World, New Year's on January 1, 2018 | 1 Comment »
Birdsong competes with the fluorescents’ buzz the cold concrete risers of the underground parking lot emitting tweets and chirps the call and response of barn swallows safe from predators and the Pacific arctic air chilling all the inhabitants of this usually moderate climate bipeds scurrying despite featherlite down plumage.
At the Kitchen Window, New Year’s Eve
Posted in Birds, Death/Loss/Grief, New Year's, Renewal/rebirth on December 31, 2016 | 1 Comment »
Slowly, slowly I wash our last dishes allow the too-warm water to redden my hands to just the right amount of pain so I will remember that this is what it took to release the hardened remnants from the places I used to feed on you.
Hurray for Hallmark!
Posted in Emotions/Inner World, Holidays, Love, Marriage, Psychology, Romance, Roses, Valentine's Day on February 14, 2013 | 1 Comment »
There are those who love Valentine’s Day. There are those who hate it. It is deemed artificial, a contrivance, a plot by a greedy consumerist society to force people to purchase overpriced flowers, chocolate, prix fixe dinners, and, of course, the just-right Valentine’s Day card. Opt out, and you run the risk that your partner […]