Songscapes

Meanwhile, the wild geese, high in the clean blue air
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination
calls to you, like the wild geese, harsh and exciting,
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.

~ Mary Oliver

Songscapes

Wind Through Sage & Sparrow

Wherever we look in Nature, we see the same thing: Life feeding on Life. We see Life revealed as a wondrous net of gems…with each gem in relationship with every other gem through the rhythm of birth and death and rebirth. Every living thing celebrates this rhythm by converting animal and plant flesh into its own flesh and the flesh of its offspring…and then surrendering its own flesh to others. How can we praise any living thing without—at the same time—praising all of the livingness that has been sacrificed to support its existence?