Discovering Beauty in Everyday Life

Lights pushing, inching closer Magnetized in the falling rain From a Brooklyn to Manhattan Bridge, early summer

Sink down inside the hidden places, wait next to the heart of the matter, sense the sharded rainbow nesting there

I didn’t know about the mended life I did not expect the quiet I did not anticipate the candle life     Soft surrounding flame     Holding onto an orange-hot tip     Black wick I did not expect a rainbow life     Colors melting towards each other     Spring rain passing     New wet leaves Still I know that raging, jealous, microsecond fire     Brassy, logo-driven, neon     Staked to the charred past     Mind igniting Rescued again by the river of time Tossed back into the candle-dappled day I sink into the moment like a stone.

 Ounce is playing in his favorite water bowl of all time, the Secret Garden Burnett fountain. Granted, sometimes Ounce travels near to large bodies of water, but really the preference is for small, contained spaces with a few close friends. Despite an argument now and then (especially with larger birds: Ounce is a little Alpha), Ounce loves having friends over.

One day I chanced to see a blossom the way it was to a bee, and the way it was to a butterfly, who fluttered over by and by. A lady bug climbed a nearby sprout to see what all the fuss was about. Well, "beauty is as beauty does", and the reason it does is Just Because! Summer Solstice Cresone Flower--Photo byLarry C.

AH HH H hh hh hh h h... The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and wither it goeth: So is everyone that is born of the Spirit. John 3:8 --