blackbirds

The Elegance of Blackbirds

/ Beth Weaver-Kreider / Leave a comment

Gratitude List:

1. An extra day at home. Time to get more grading completed. Time with the kids. Time out of time.
2. The elegance of blackbirds. Those grackles with their white eyes, silhouetted on snow.
3. Yesterday morning’s moon. I forgot to talk about it yesterday, so I will remember it today, how it was caught in the branches of the walnut tree, how–above the round bales of straw on Picking Rd.–it was itself a round bale in the sky, how later it was alone, a single eye above us.
4. Snow. This was a lovely storm, and we didn’t even lose power.
5. The chicken-dance of fox sparrows.

May we walk in Beauty!

Creating the World

/ Beth Weaver-Kreider / Leave a comment

Gratitude List:
1. A visiting student from Chile told me today that his favorite poet is Gabriela Mistral, so I looked her up. Her name was sort of vaguely familiar. Now I am loving diving into her work.
2. A bare treeful of redwinged blackbirds.
3. Buds! The trees are budding!
4. The green! Oh, the green! The hills surrounding my hollow are Brigadoon-green.
5. The way this cat loves his purple blanket. We keep this purple bedspread in the living room for snuggling on cold evenings. No matter where in the room it is, that’s where Fred chooses to sleep these days.

May we walk in Beauty!