liquidnight: “If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.” — Albert Einstein “Ein Märchen” (The Fairy Tale), Artist unknown, circa 1900 [postcard from the collection of janwillemsen]
Author: Birch Wind
Mom of five kids aged 16-36. Journeying though life, and looking for the way home. Trying to remember that the map is hidden in all I see, even in the face of the grief that has settled upon me since my daughter passed away in 2016. Currently picking through scattered pieces.
Throw down your books! Run outside and dance! Quickly, while the sky has opened, And the ocean falls from above. The clouds, racing and tumbling like waves , Cast out their charge and bathe us In the Beauty of God. Shilo
What then, we feebly ask, is imperfection? And in the Master-Presence we cannot but reply: It is the doubt “It is too good” that is the imperfection of our nature; we fear it cannot be for us, not knowing that the “little one” who catches some glimpse of the vista, the earnest of the Vision … Continue reading
>Beauty
>Throw down your books!Run outside and dance!Quickly, while the sky has opened,And the ocean falls down upon us.The clouds, racing and tumbling like waves ,Cast out their charge and bathe usIn the Beauty of God.
>I’ve got that feeling again
>Broken filter.The emotions running the gamut from one extreme to the next. Moment to moment.But the chain on this pendulum is short and it never goes far enough to do much damage.I notice that the times of pure bliss and overwhelming joy are sporadically speckled with anger and irritation. I have a restlessness but because … Continue reading >I’ve got that feeling again
In the Wind 