A hummingbird of a girl – iridescent and flittering fueled by youth and hope and that which buzzes alive in those lucky enough to fly dive hover dart in search of the 1000 flowers’ nectar to be lapped up in a day.
Archive for the ‘Natural World’ Category
Radiant
Posted in Healing, Hummingbirds, Romance, Youth on July 25, 2015 | Leave a Comment »
Unveiled
Posted in Death/Loss/Grief, Fathers, Love, Poetry, Relationships, Seasons on July 12, 2015 | Leave a Comment »
I come to life when color begins to leave the leaves when the stain of amber and gold and burnt sienna seeps into the once verdant green and school-bus yellow ushering in the rich and glorious palette of decay and death.
If we could have spoken tonight
Posted in Cooking/Food & Wine, Falling in Love, Flowers, Reminiscences, Young Love on May 11, 2015 | 2 Comments »
I’d have told you that I spread honey, then sprinkled cumin and the lightest dusting of cinnamon and chili oil on cod filets tonight. To finish, I squeezed fresh limes instead of lemon. The kitchen smelled like your fingers after you made me come describing our scents.
Desert Bloom
Posted in Aging, Beauty, Falling in Love, Fear, Natural World, Romance, Writing on May 4, 2015 | Leave a Comment »
Inches apart the right side of your right arm rubbed my left.
Invitation to the Dance
Posted in Connection, Love, Space/Universe, Spirituality on April 25, 2015 | Leave a Comment »
Between galaxies, there is nothing. Empty space. Unmeasurably vast, deep expanses of a kind of nothing we can’t fathom, can’t name.