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- Be Wild and Bloom! - by Submitted on May 20, 2011 from Nancy BishopJust before black-fly season arrives in May, I like to wander into the woods to see the early spring wildflowers poke their heads up from the forest floor. Some of my favorites are the pitcher plant and Dutchman's-breeches. If you look closely at the pitcher plant you can actually see the ...
Views: 913(1 vote) - Trust Your Timing and Let Spring Find You. - by Submitted on Mar 13, 2011 from Nancy Bishop"Only with winter-patience can we bring the deep-desired,long-awaited spring." Anne Morrow Lindbergh Living in four seasons keeps us accustomed to change. Just as we get use to living in one season, another one soon follows. We can never get too comfortable. Maybe that is why we are referred ...
Views: 851(1 vote) - Gifts in Disguise - by Submitted on Aug 14, 2008 from Nancy BishopIf you knew today that you wouldn't get exactly what you wanted but that something even better was trying to make its way to you, would you step aside and open the door to invite it in? Or, are you standing at the peep-hole of life's doorway, waiting to see what shows up before you risk opening ...
Views: 1041 - Are You Listening? - by Submitted on May 03, 2006 from Nancy BishopTo celebrate May Day, I knelt down in a field of daffodils and was kissed by the morning dew. It was so quiet except for the bees humming and the occasional bird song. It reminded me that we all need to find or create our own sacred spaces; havens and respites from the endlessly noisy and ...
Views: 828 - Keep Hope Alive! - by Submitted on Sep 09, 2005 from Nancy Bishop"Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without the words, And never stops at all.." ~ Emily Dickinson There is a bittersweet quality that permeates the air in September. In the northern hemisphere, we say our reluctant goodbyes to summer. When September ...
Views: 909 - Harvest Your Sweetest Dreams This Spring. - by Submitted on Mar 06, 2005 from Nancy BishopThe sweet smell of Spring is in the air. Breathe deeply. The days are getting longer now and the sun sits higher in the sky. The sugar maples stretch after a long cold winter. Soon their sweet sap will run and the fires will be lit at maple sugarhouses for all night boiling vigils. The fires ...
Views: 1087(1 vote) - What Are You Telling Yourself? - by Submitted on Oct 22, 2003 from Nancy Bishop"If you cannot be a poet, be the poem."~ David Carradine Autumn in New England is a sensual experience. Wood-smoke fires fill the night sky with ghostly images. The air is scented with ready-to-pick apples and burning oak from hearth fires. Maple trees don their cloaks of red, orange and yellow ...
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