What a funny winter. It seemed to have just arrived and now there it is all gone and here we are starting tomato seeds and staring out the window at chickadees and robins and blackbirds and grackles.
I never knew that I would want to spend so much time staring out my window in quiet bliss - that's why I bought a knitting book today.
Yesterday Luna and I walked around the field. We actually have a waterfall coming down the east side of our property into the stream. It was rushing yesterday - just pouring off from all the water we've been having fall from the sky and eek out of the earth. We're getting rain rain rain.
Each day I took us off the hill, I sent my gratitude for the mobility.
The birds don't seem to mind the rain. Mourning doves and juncos. They are all out there hopping and walking and gathering seeds or bugs. The birds have stayed. We have been seeing the geese -they are back. A few minutes ago two flew right over our house, calling to each other as they went. This Winter we fed a little brown squirrel who lived in our rock wall - he would creep out and over to the feeder and try to pull it all the way open, climb inside and make Luna laugh.
These are the things that are important in my life. I want us to be in this space of open connection to the natural things. I want those natural things to feel safe and welcome here so we can live together - all of us - and my daughter can love them and feel their love and know there is peace to be found in stillness with the natural world.
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