Sunday, May 24



SUMMER IS HERE - - I’ve got a seventy two degree read from my deck . . .

Dandelions line roads and hills have become fat and flashy in their green - - swollen with sun, they act like winter never happened.

The change from Spring to Summer is overnight in Fairbanks. It’s one of the things I love about Northern Living . . . it is extreme. I was burned with sixty-two below cold this year, and now, five months later I’m sitting in the shade, dangling a flip flop and fanning myself with warm winds.

I am planting a garden and flowers this season. Pure glee was felt when the first sunflowers grew UP effortlessly. It has me thinking of the way things work. A farmer tills the soil rich, sows seeds, waters and waits. Wouldn’t it be crazy if the farmer went out each day, dug up the soil to see if the seeds were growing?! It would be nuts! The farmer trusts that nature will do her thing, and having done his part by planting and watering, he knows to busy himself with other things and before he knows it the first green of new life will be pushing through the soil.

Thinking about my own life along side today’s gardening session, I realized that I am working with the same stuff in nature that the tiny seed is. I have idea seeds I am sowing. As much as I want to peek under the soil to see if any are taking root, I need to trust that they are growing up and out. My most important job is to honor each idea by watering it with the expectancy of true belief. Look around you. Everything man-made was once only a thought . . . an idea . . . a seed.

T R U S T that everything is unfolding in right time.

B E L I E V E that goodness and purpose is your present moment.

An avalanche of A B U N D A N C E is upon you !

Thursday, May 21

Thursday

Morning Coffee, Spring 2009



I've got well loved laugh lines
and night skies lit as day

Between Ceremony and Passage there is waiting --
In front and behind beginning is ending.

I've got riddles riding rainstorms
and a sideways sunrise.

There is morning coffee and chasing light --

There are pink hills and a faded moon,
high noon filtered through a vein of green.

This is one, beginning . . .

Wednesday, May 13

Drive by Blogging

Spring Tulips in my cabin



I am blogging on the sly.


In an effort to simplify my life, I no longer have Internet at home...that has made regular blogging a bit of a challenge. All that might change this winter...but for now, the Internet is saved for cafes, the library and quick checks from parking lots of hotels that offer "Free WI FI."

So, aside from my traveling Internet connection, all of the sunny weather and spring fever --

I am going to keep it short with a quick and dirty list of good things:

Hillsides that are starting to swell with the green of new leaves

Eighteen Hours of daylight

A recent purchase of a Subaru Outback has me understanding exactly what the "Subaru Club" is alllll about - what a nice ride!!

The most beautiful 4 mile walk out my front door boasting views of The Alaska Range and roads lined with Birch, Aspen and Spruce

Morning Coffee on my newly extended deck

The freedom, time and funds to paint and follow inspired creativity

The thrill of the slow unfolding of it all

Sending you warm winds and sun kissed cheeks *