I did not do a “Year in Review” in 2023. I had taken on a new part-time job in the fall of 2022, and I just could not find the time to do it. And I still have that job so I’m still awfully busy, but I’m determined. So I have decided to do pairs of photos this time, one per month for each year, 2022 and 2023. January 29, 2022 – This beautiful Red-shouldered Hawk (Buteo lineatus) perched on a branch just yards away and posed for me. I was entering Tensas River National Wildlife Refuge to meet a…
Merry Christmas, everyone! May your world be bathed in holy light this First Day of Christmas and always.
Come, come, whoever you are.Wanderer, worshiper, lover of leaving.It doesn’t matter.Ours is not a caravan of despair.Come, even if you have broken your vows a thousand times.Come, yet again, come, come.–Rumi
The hymn, “Mary, did you know?” has come in for lots of criticism of late. One meme I saw on Facebook accused it of being a “mansplaining” of what Mary obviously already knew because an angel had told her. Well, ok. Far be it from me to contest that patriarchy infiltrates Christianity today! But, really, I have also read the words Gabriel spoke to her, and if she understood everything, if she really got the whole story from Gabriel’s words, why did she have to ponder those words? And why did she ponder again several years later when Jesus stayed…
Birth day. Death day.Between days,crying laughing,laughing crying…No difference, you know.Draw a circle around thismoment.Say an emerald prayer.–BJK
Edge & Essence 