Winter has come to Iowa!
“In the depths of winter,
I finally realized that deep within me
there lay
an Invincible summer.”
Albert Camus
january 21, 2007
Stray Birds
I thank thee that I am none of the wheels of power but I am one with the living creatures that are crushed by it.
Like the meeting of the seagulls and the waves we meet and come near. The seagulls fly off, the waves roll away and we depart.
We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.
Your voice, my friend, wanders in my heart, like the muffled sound of the sea among these listening pines.
Let life be beautiful like summer flowers and death like autumn leaves.
The hills are like the shouts of children who raise their arms, trying to catch stars.
This rainy evening the wind is restless. I look at the swaying branches and ponder over the greatness of all things.
One sad voice has its nest among the ruins of the years. It sings to me in the night,—‘I loved you.’
My thoughts shimmer with these shimmering leaves and my heart sings with the touch of this sunlight; my life is glad to be floating with all things into the blue of space, into the dark of time.
Rabindranath Tagore
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This is where I post my miscellaneous thoughts and dreams. They’re unrelated to the civil rights issues directly, though my own growth and unfoldment, like everyone else’s, is related indirectly to all things………..reminds me of this wonderful quote of Martin Luther King, Jr.
“We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.”
A lot of my “ruminating” happens on the trails surrounding my community. I took these photos just a few days ago. It’s hard to imagine Iowa in December looking like this, but that’s how it is this year.
dec. 17 – 2006
