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Gratitude Day 23: Peace Fullness

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This Turning, as I experience it, is like what poet Robinson Jeffers called “falling in love outward.” Our mission is not to escape from our world, or tune it out, or fix things by remote control, but to fall in love with our world.   ~ Joanna Macy It is supposedly Black Friday, and we … Read more

The Nineteenth Day of Thanksgiving

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I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul. ~ Jean Cocteau I am late posting, because we had a visit to the vet today with our sweetie Sierra.  It looks like we are going to begin treating her for lymphoma.  That’s the bad news. But the … Read more

Thirty Days of Thanksgiving: Day 9 – Dark-eyed Juncos

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One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe One month to the day after our last hummingbird sighting, John saw the first dark-eyed junco of the season. Often called “snowbirds,” this member of the sparrow family ranges throughout North America. But here in North Carolina, we only … Read more