Rest

Mina would like you to rest and be thankful.

It is the little things.

Wishing You Well and Much Joy!

What a pair!

There's nothing like being comfy and cozy.

I have small feet -- which can be a blessing and a curse.

I found these cute slipper socks 

(the ones with the little bumps on the bottom to keep you from slipping)

at Tuesday Morning. They are kids socks and they fit perfectly.

It really is the little things that bring such pleasure and smiles!

Comfy and cozy -- what a pair!

Thank you to Kim for hosting Little Things Thursdays.

Wishing you well and much joy!

A Little Babying Never Hurts

There are three Satsuma trees in Musashi's Garden.

They've had a hard time.

I've talked to them and babied them through the continuing drought.

Telling them they didn't have to *perform* -- just stay alive.

This year, two of the little trees provided me with orange globes of sweetness.

YUM!

Before I ate all the evidence,

I decided that I needed to document the fact that

a little babying never hurts.

Wishing all of you well and much joy!

Good Morning!

Boo!

Oh let us cast dull care away

Again be children for a day

Witches, Goblins have their sway

Tis Hallowe'en, let's joke and play

Wishing all of YOU well and much joy.

Happy Halloween!

Photos taken at Zoo Boo 2013

Good Morning!

"Many of us in this time have lost the inner substance of our lives and forgotten to give praise and remember the sacredness of all life. 

But in spite of this forgetting, there is still a part of us that is deep and intimate with the world. 

We remember it by feel. 

We experience it as a murmur in the night, a longing and restlessness that we can't name, a yearning that tugs at us. 

For it is only recently, in earth time, that the severings of the connections between people and land have taken place. 

Something in our human blood is still searching for it, still listening, still remembering. Nicaraguan poet-priest Ernesto Cardenal wrote, ' We have always wanted something beyond what we wanted.' 

 I have loved those words, how they speak to the longing place inside us that seeks to be whole and connected to the earth. 

This too is the place of beginning, the source of our living."

• Linda Hogan (Dwellings: A Spiritual History of the Living World)

Thanks Kim!


Wishing all of you well and much joy!

Good Morning!

"There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. 
One is called yesterday and the other is called tomorrow.
So today is the right day to love, believe, do and mostly live."
~Dalai Lama

Wishing YOU well and much joy.

Thanks Kim!

Good Morning!

 This is what Autumn looks like in Houston!

Japanese Garden, Hermann Park, Houston

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

~Lao Tzu