If we were having coffee: Red cedar edition

Cedar “berries”

I was in my yard and thought that the tree was a living being.  We take trees for granted.  We don’t believe they are as much alive as we are.

~ Ziggy Marley

In the cherry tree the day after the storms

Eating dried cherries.

Watching birds has become part of my daily meditation affirming my connection to the earth body.

~ Carol P. Christ

A Monday meander: Deal Island

On Deal Island, looking out over Tangier Sound.

Nights and days came and passed
And summer and winter
and the rain.
And it was good to be a little Island.
A part of the world
and a world of its own
All surrounded by the bright blue sea.

~ Margaret Wise Brown, The Little Island

If we were having coffee: If wishes were horses edition

Head on.

If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.
If turnips were watches, I’d wear one by my side.
If Ifs and Ands were pots and pans
There’d be no work for tinkers’ hands.

~ English rhyme