mermaids, magazines & making things ...

~gathering sea glass~

***

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~

hello September ...

hello September 

"each day comes bearing its own gifts.

untie the ribbons "

~Ruth Ann Schabacker~ 

looking forward to cooler temperatures * cozy nights * long country drives * comfort food* baking pies and cookies * walking though leaves * pumpkins * caramel apples * fall fairs …

"I've gone into the fields

to take what this sweet hour yields"

~Percy Bysshe Shelley~

have a wonderful{long}  weekend

d x 

august happenings ...

celebrating a full moon

& international dog day 

yesterday

{archer love}

walking & gathering 

… I love skeleton leaves …

*

living with intention...

like the earth -

I offer myself

over & over again

finding so many heart shaped stones …

painting nests and eggs

*

whatever makes your soul happy... do that!

honor the space

between 

no longer

and 

not yet

finding "new to me" colours of beach glass is always exciting

adding pretty little bits of found pottery to my jars

"Art enables us to

 find ourselves

and 

lose ourselves

at the same time"

~Thomas Morton~ 

walking along the beach

gathering up pieces of glass and stones

holding them in my hand...

I love how they feel

depending on where I've found them

cool from the waters edge

or warm from the sand and sun

running my fingers across them as I walk

meditation * intention* gratitude

~happy Monday~

x d

Hello August

sipping ice tea in my garden

 and watching a pair of sweet cabbage white butterflies

as they flutter about & explore my wild secret garden …

planted to be a haven for butterflies* bees * birds * squirrels* chipmunks …

{and perhaps, even a few faeries}

this time of year everything has filled in and spilled over to the walking path

but I love it like that ...

the cosmos are taller this year than ever before {gorgeousness}

and soon I will brush my hand over them and gather up seeds

& toss them all about the garden again to land where they wish...

the lambs ears always lure me to run my hand against their gentle softness

coleus are filling window boxes and clay pots

portulaca have been thriving in the heat

~hello August~

you've been a hot one so far

"she had a wild, wandering soul

but when she loved,

she loved with chaos

and that made all the difference"

~Ariana Dancu~ 

watching the bees on our daily walk through the woods

 enjoying the shade and

breeze of trees

and cooling off at the waters edge

peace and  serenity found

"We need the tonic of wildness...

at the same time

 that we are earnest to explore

 and learn all things,

we require that all things be mysterious

and unexplorable,

that land and sea

be indefinitely wild,

unsurveyed and unfathorned by us

because unfathornable.

We can never have enough of nature"

~Henry David Thoreau~

hello friends

"When you do things from your soul,

you feel a river moving in you,

a joy"

~Rumi~

yin ~ yang ...

~gently now~

***

in this space

filled with grace

I stand

holding your precious life

in my hands

when the time comes

branches will be waiting nearby

with new found bravery

wings you will try

in trepidation

you may pause

asking "but how?"

and I will softly whisper

"gently … now" x

~d.d~

...tis the human touch in this world that counts , the touch of your hand in mine ...

thoughts of nature and balance and connection

the yin and yang, opposites attract, interconnection, 

the feminine and masculine, treading gently  and

holding space

some beautiful glass from yesterdays beach walk...

soft warm sand between my toes *a family of sandpipers { I hadn't realized just how gorgeous they are until seeing them up close & very friendly} *the hum of waves *seagulls flying overhead* red winged blackbirds singing their beautiful song* bees & Monarchs enjoying milkweed * blue skies & warm breeze , beach glass gathering as I walked { I found some 'new to me ' colours}* pretty pieces of pottery * unusual stones & hearts galore ~ a beautiful way to start the week

I bring them home and sit

with my tea

and mindfully take each piece out of my gathering bag

and place them on my coffee table

I found lots of beautiful heart shaped stones …

they don't all come home with me

I know there are other beach combers who will be happy to find some

love from the lake :-D 

but this one … well it spoke to me

some of the lovely smaller pieces of glass I found in gorgeous shades

… stones with heart shapes inside them

& a yin yang stone

often described in terms of sunlight playing over a mountain or valley ~ I love that description x

"all things carry yin

and embrace yang.

they reach harmony

by blending with the vital breath"

~Laozi~ 

"the yin and yang

 are opposite forces.

yet, they exist together 

in the harmony

of a perfect orb"

~R.A. Wise~

new moon journaling...

when you take your journal down

from the bookcase …

with every intention to write

about your day …

the serenity of the walk along the lake

 finding beach glass and stones in the shape of a heart along the way 

as you happily add them to your gathering bag

hearing the sound of the waves

and pausing to watch and take long, deep, intentional breaths of  the fresh,  salty air

and hearing the serenade of bird song

when you close your eyes for a moment to really listen

and then looking around to see where it was coming from

and noticing it was a red winged black bird  who was watching you as he sang each beautiful note

and then …

pause before ever turning the cover over

because at that moment you have "other ideas" for the plain black cover

because your day was far too beautiful

and you are much too grateful

to write the words down in an ordinary plain covered journal :-)

Wild Moon Woman

you were not 

made to be tame

you are

 an earthquake

shaking loose

everything

that is not soul

Shake

Woman

Shake

Happy Canada Day

Happy Canada Day

"happiness

not in another place

but this place

not for another hour

but this hour"

~Walt Whitman~