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Sometimes it seems Moms do all the work around the house!
A composite of a Yellow Warbler pair with "Mom" gathering nesting material. Michigan 2019.
Learn to love and to accept serenely (as the influence of a great loving power) those uncontrollable events which thwart your action—and you will see that you will come closer to peace…. my whole “religion” can be reduced to this active surrender to a World which I understand less and less in detail… but whose “divinization” or “personalization” seems clearer to me every day. That my existence has been as much as possible an act of fidelity to Life is the only thing that interests and reassures me from now on. (LTF, 83)
--Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, as quoted in: Teilhard's Struggle, Embracing the Work of Evolution, Kathleen Duffy, SSJ
"My God, take me by the hand, I'll follow you like a good girl, I won't make too much resistance. I will not dodge any of the things that come upon me in this life, I will try to accept everything in the best possible way. I like warmth and security, but I will not rebel if I have to stay cold as long as you hold my hand I will go everywhere, and I will try not to be afraid. And wherever I am, I will try to radiate some of that love, that true love for people that I carry inside me. Once you begin to walk with God you simply continue to walk and life becomes a single, long stride".
-Etty Hillesum
“It was as though he said, ‘Now human reason, genuflect in front of the Word of God because not to do so is no longer reasonable.’”
-Colombo, “Un maestro che seppe ascoltare,” x–xi.
“Those microbes have finally settled themselves in my left leg and my ear, and an eyebrow begins to fall. I expect to have my face soon disfigured. Having no doubt myself of the true character of my disease, I feel calm, resigned, and happier among my people. Almighty God knows what is best for my own sanctification, and with that conviction I say daily a good fiat voluntas tua—your will be done.”
-Fr. Damien,
Painted lady butterfly (Vanessa cardui ) migrating through the area attracted by the abundance of wildflowers. This butterfly is on Phacelia distans, a flowering plant in the borage family native to southwest United States. Anza Borrego Desert, San Diego, California
These flowers are so tiny that they are hard to see unless you are right next to the bush. The Barberry has very long thorns you can see in the picture. The deer manage to eat all the leaves in winter despite the thorns!
“Has my heart gone to sleep? / Have the beehives of my dreams / stopped working, the waterwheel / of the mind run dry, / scoops turning empty, / only shadow inside? / No, my heart is not asleep. / It is awake, wide awake / Not asleep, not dreaming—/ its eyes are opened wide / watching distant signals, listening / on the rim of the vast silence.”
-Antonio Machado, “Has My Heart Gone to Sleep?,” Solitudes, no. 16, in Selected Poems, trans. Alan S. Trueblood (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1982), 93.
So the sign warns and if you do, a mist emanates from the mushrooms at ground level! Very clever and quite cute. In the Enchanted Woods at Winterthur.
I don't remember where I got this one but its spreading nicely in the shade garden. It's quite tall- about 2' and has lots of blooms!
This tall pink Columbine was in the yard when we bought the house. I have gathered seeds and moved it around so it's now in several places. This one is in the shade garden.
The Viburnum is full of buds ad when they open, the gardens ill be filled with the most wonderful fragrance!