Gotta Say hi back, Ginny! I love your pictures. Hollis and I were in Phoenix last week for 5 days and also saw Sedona for the first time - for just a few hours. Wow! Beauty. Your one pic reminds me of that trip.
Love the goats. Hollis wants to get two for our backyard - in the suburbs! - and graze them on land owned by a Church behind us. I have successfully resisted so far.
Slowly the west reaches for clothes of new colours
which it passes to a row of ancient trees.
You look, and soon these two worlds both leave you,
one part climbs toward heaven, one sinks to earth,
leaving you, not really belonging to either,
not so helplessly dark as that house that is silent,
not so unswervingly given to the eternal as that thing
that turns to a star each night and climbs –
leaving you (it is impossible to untangle the threads)
your own life, timid and standing high and growing,
so that, sometimes blocked in, sometimes reaching out,
one moment your life is a stone in you, and the next, a star.
LeslieAnn Butler
LeslieAnn
Mar 5, 2009
Kosta Makreas
Love the goats. Hollis wants to get two for our backyard - in the suburbs! - and graze them on land owned by a Church behind us. I have successfully resisted so far.
Be well!
Kosta
Mar 18, 2009
The Ancient One
Slowly the west reaches for clothes of new colours
which it passes to a row of ancient trees.
You look, and soon these two worlds both leave you,
one part climbs toward heaven, one sinks to earth,
leaving you, not really belonging to either,
not so helplessly dark as that house that is silent,
not so unswervingly given to the eternal as that thing
that turns to a star each night and climbs –
leaving you (it is impossible to untangle the threads)
your own life, timid and standing high and growing,
so that, sometimes blocked in, sometimes reaching out,
one moment your life is a stone in you, and the next, a star.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke ~
May 1, 2009