Sunday, May 25, 2014


Morning has broken, like the first morning
Blackbird has spoken, like the first bird
Praise for the singing, praise for the morning
Praise for the springing fresh from the word


Sweet the rain's new fall, sunlit from heaven
Like the first dewfall, on the first grass
Praise for the sweetness of the wet garden
Sprung in completeness where his feet pass


Mine is the sunlight, mine is the morning
Born of the one light, Eden saw play
Praise with elation, praise every morning
God's recreation of the new day

Sunday, November 10, 2013

That time of year thou mayst in me behold
When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang
Upon those boughs which shake against the cold,
Bare ruined choirs, where late the sweet birds sang.
In me thou see’st the twilight of such day
As after sunset fadeth in the westShakespeare

Sunday, November 3, 2013


The leaves are falling, falling as if from far up,
as if orchards were dying high in space.
Each leaf falls as if it were motioning "no."
And tonight the heavy earth is falling
away from all other stars in the loneliness.
We're all falling. This hand here is falling.
And look at the other one. It's in them all.
And yet there is Someone, whose hands
infinitely calm, holding up all this falling.
Rilke

Saturday, October 26, 2013

“In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.” 
― John Muir
Sunny and beautiful morning on a hike I took in mid October 2013 at John Bryan State Park in Yellow Springs, OH

Saturday, September 14, 2013

Sunday, August 25, 2013

Yesterday's sunrise on the Ohio was gorgeous and my spirit danced.  I took an early morning walk with a friend and watched a coal barge slowly float down the ohio as the sun came up.  

Monday, August 19, 2013

The rising sun brings a warm smile to my tired soul.
Winton Woods At Dawn Today