mermaids, magazines & making things ...

~gathering sea glass~

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I've been gathering sea glass
and placing it in my hair
letting the wind decide
where it should settle there

With the light of the sun
each piece glistens and shines
warming my head
and soothing my mind

keeping gathered treasures
within reach
as I mindfully walk
a stretch of the beach

I reach up
and run my fingers through strands
looking for glass
to touch my hand

comforting,
reminding me what's real
with each piece
I lovingly feel

Filling up
all of this headspace
with treasures found
along my sacred space

Seems I've created a vessel
for the light to shine in
and isn't that really the place
where it must begin.
~deb dunn~

I know I have often shared here how fortunate I feel to live along Lake Ontario ~ where I can walk the beach on any given day. 

 Walking meditation * listening and in tune with the tide * taking my thoughts to the lake * cloud watching * feeling the sand between my toes * and gathering ... finding those lovely little glistening coloured pieces of glass ~ loved and washed and tumbled over and over again xo

It was only a matter of time 

that all this beach glass gathering

found itself in a painting :-)

hair blowing wildly

picking up pieces of glass

letting them land as they wish

"gather yourself

 by the seashore

and I will love you there.

assemble yourself

 with  wild things

with the songs

 of the sparrow

 and sea foam

let mad beauty

 collect itself

 in your eyes

and it will shine

calling me.

for I long

for a man

with nests

 of wild things

 in his hair.

a man

who

 will

 kiss

 the

 flame"

~jewel~ 

I love to spot birds on the beach

whether tiny  sparrows * * sand pipers * red winged blackbirds *  sea gulls  who always look to see if I have food :-) * to the large  commorants who I watch in awe as they fly above ...

my sweet friend Christine sent me the latest issue of Faerie Magazine all the way from Connecticut

because inside was a lovely story all about sea/beach glass

that she knew I would love {and I did}!

"mermaid tears" was a term I hadn't heard before, but fell in love with the moment I read

"did you know that if a mermaid happens to fall in love with a sailor, she swims alongside his ship in order to protect him? Mermaids become very attached to the men they love"

~made me love sea glass all the more~