When life descends into the pit, I must become my own candle, willingly burning myself to light up the darkness.
Alice Walker
Chosen by Patty M.
In the field of light
I lose and find myself, freed
To dance with the moon.
Photo and haiku by Amy W.
Our morning walk was full of surprises — 11 deer with 2 bambies, wild turkeys with chicks, a swimming alligator, a white squirrel, and many very young birds!
Jacob and Mieke K.
So grateful for the everyday beauty and wonder in this place I am blessed to call home. These times call for us to speak our truth about injustice and inequality, but they also require us to find ways to replenish our hearts and souls with beauty and kindness.
Nancy L.
Walking in Brookgreen and the white flowers called to me.
Nancy B.
Huntington State Beach and Park – Dec. 20, 2025
Advent Calendar He will come like last leaf’s fall. One night when the November wind has flayed the trees to the bone, and earth wakes choking in the mould, the soft shroud’s folding. He will come like the frost. One morning when the shrinking earth opens on mist, to find itself arrested in the net…
Brookgreen Gardens – Nov. 15, 2025
On the Holy Breath of Wind The seed, carried in hands, hearts, or on the holy breath of wind, drifts… falls casually in unrecognized perfection to where the measure of the sun to shade, of dry to wet, of promise to past or scar to hope, seems hopeless. Yet there underneath something grows, outside the…
Brookgreen Gardens, Oct. 18, 2025
Sometimes by David Whyte Sometimesif you move carefullythrough the forest,breathinglike the onesin the old stories,who could crossa shimmering bed of leaveswithout a sound,you come to a placewhose only taskis to trouble youwith tinybut frightening requests,conceived out of nowherebut in this placebeginning to lead everywhere.Requests to stop whatyou are doing right now,andto stop what youare becomingwhile…
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Thank you Amy, Patty and Nancy. Your photos and thoughts were calming in the midst of the chaos that is my life right now.
On Tue, Jun 9, 2020 at 11:40 AM walkinginwonderhcfm wrote:
> nlaprade1 posted: ” When life descends into the pit, I must become my own > candle, willingly burning myself to light up the darkness. Alice Walker > Chosen by Patty M. In the field of lightI lose and find myself, freedTo > dance with the moon. Photo and haiku by Amy W” >
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Thanks, Nancy! This is just what I needed!! Hope to join you Saturday!
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