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First snowdrops

All around us, the soaring numbers of deaths from Covid. Today, a friend who’s lost his father. The stories mount up. The mourning. So welcome, then, first snowdrops, harbingers of hope, light-bearers, first responders, there in the midst of winter’s wreckage.

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Another sunset/to overlook or notice/that dish of fire

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Eileen’s gifted solar duck at sunset. It stores up light by day to emanate at night. 

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Feels the right time of year to share this song - a wintery ballad. 

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Thinking aloud/allowed

Photo by kazuend on Unsplash 

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Wabi-Sabi - embracing the cracks ...

Wabi-Sabi - “a way of life that appreciates and accepts complexity while at the same time values simplicity” (Richard Powell, Wabi Sabi Simple). 

The aesthetic is one of “rustic simplicity” or “understated elegance” with the Zen understanding that everything, and every being, is impermanent, unfinished, in process, and that, in these qualities, we can find beauty and meaningfulness.  

See this article for more details: https://medium.com/personal-growth/wabi-sabi-the-japanese-philosophy-for-a-perfectly-imperfect-life-11563e833dc0 

Image: Fiona Owen

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To start, then, means to tune to the ear and art in heart, hearth, earth.

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