Gratitude List:
1. Nettles, mint, and honey
2. Green, viridian, verdancy
3. Shiny bits of quartzite
4. Nearly a dozen small boys and a girl playing at the pond and in the creek, catching polliwogs and crawfish and little fish, moms talking and picking watercress, Golda the giant koi swimming up to see what was going on.
5. Listening to mockingbird and phoebe and the longingly off-key song of the white-throat.
May we walk in Beauty.
Photos by Angel Brown
Gratitude List:
1. My new adjustable dress form. Well, new to me. Got it for a steal at The Bargain Bungalow.
2. When I told Ellis that we were thinking that maybe he might go to school this fall, he said, “Yes, I think that would be a good idea.” And he has bought himself a School Supplies cigar box (at The Bargain Bungalow), and has begun to talk about things he is going to tell his teacher.
3. Four wonderful years with a charming small person who is growing into himself. (And that I am not going into labor tonight as I did four years ago.)
4. Ritual. Group contemplation and meditation.
5. Silence. Waiting. Stillness.
Nettles coming up. Such a lovely violet on the tips.
Mockingbird Chronicles 