Seasons of Home
Posted On Jul 14 2016I read that the Japanese have 22 seasons. I don’t care if it’s true – I adopted it. I suggest you do as well. Not 22 seasons, but look into your heart and see what seasonal elements touch you. It’s a way to recover and feel into places you love. For example: You may be familiar with the poignantly brief Cherry Blossom Time and how the Japanese celebrate it. Every day I walk through beautiful places. As I write this, I am enjoying Dogwood season. As I walk by the lavenders in Lavender season, I caress the flowers to leave …
What’s the Sound Track of Home?
Posted On Jun 1 2016As I walked through the woods around my brother, John’s, house on Cape Cod, I listened to the sounds of home. I heard Blue Jays, Robins, Cardinals, and Mourning Doves. His woods are populated by many more birds, but those stuck out. Whenever I stepped outside the house where I grew up in northern Ohio, I heard those songs and calls. They formed the sound track for home. My sound track for home now is quite different. Love of place will always have a sound track. When I was growing up, I didn’t know I had a sound track, but …
Deepen Your Topophilia – Find Heaven
Posted On May 12 2016Deepen Your Topophilia & Find Heaven I love this small park, really, just this small section of the small park by the lake. I know the crows who visit, the squirrels that hop and zip, the robins singing and hunting, the sound of the waves gently lapping or crashing in winter storms, the low clouds zooming north along the lake, the sunrise peaking over the Cascades, the beaver chewed trees, the beavers passing through, the transcendent chirping of the widgeons, the honking I hear long before the Canada geese land, rippling through the water. I’ve watched the eagle spook the raft …