this morning’s passing breeze

Moths in the meadow on a breezy morning

All beings are encompassed within one all-encompassing great energy:  So I understood from the coolness of this morning’s passing breeze.

~ Mumon Ekai

for the birds

I hope you love birds too.  It is economical.  It saves going to heaven.

~ Emily Dickinson

a star

What is it that you contain?  The dead.  Time.  Light patterns of millennia opening in your gut.  Every minute, in each of you, a few million potassium atoms succumb to radioactive decay.  The energy that powers these tiny atomic events has been locked inside potassium atoms ever since a star-sized bomb exploded nothing into being.  Potassium, like uranium and radium, is a long-lived radioactive nuclear waste of the supernova bang that accounts for you.

Your first parent was a star.

~ Jeanette Winterson

celebrate

Celebrate each season, for you too, are transformed with the turns of the earth.

~ Arthur Dobrin

seeds

Is childhood ever long enough, or a happy time, or even a beautiful summer day?  All of these carry the seeds of the same fierce mystery that we call death.

~ Eugene Kennedy

Risk

Paint Mines Interpretive Park. Calhan, Colorado. August 2010.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go.

~ T. S. Eliot

I’m not sure I have many followers here at Bountiful Healing anymore.  I’ve let the blog stagnate, occasionally bringing back the posts I set to private when I thought I might be shutting this place down.

I have found, though, that this blog doesn’t want to be shut down.  I’m drawn back to it from time to time.  This is one of those times.  Some of the plans and challenges I have coming up might require the morning attitude adjustment this blog brought to me.  I might also find it a good place to play, just as I did in the past.  It can’t be all seriousness all the time.

In keeping with fresh starts, I’ve redecorated a little.  It was a strange thing, changing the theme.  I’ve used that theme since the beginning of Bountiful Healing.  It will be fun seeing what I can do with the new one, but I suspect I’ll miss the old one every now and then (especially during those times I’m not sure what I’m doing with the features on the new one).  I will continue to bring back some of the old posts as well, little by little.  I’ve resisted doing it all at once because I know it causes tons of emails to be released to those who have email subscriptions.  Slow and steady ought to do it, for the blog as well as the plans and challenges I’ll be dealing with soon.