Still so very grey. The fog brings snow, then ice, then pure rain that melts away the ice from the lake's surface. And just this weekend, I saw the little kiddies out there playing hockey on the ice. And wondered at the daring of their parents, to let them out there so shortly after the surface had hardened.
I have to search to find color in the surroundings, when the lovely birds have finished pecking at the trees outside my living room windows. But there is beauty all around, and with a little patience, I see the colors through the gray.
Dear friend, thank you for stopping by. I'd love it if you'd SAY HELLO! -- please don't be shy. And if you haven't the time to read, feel free to skip over the bla-bla and just browse the pictures. :)
Or, if you're feeling spunky, you can even call me.
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, to discover that I had not lived.I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary.I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and to be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion. -- Henry David Thoreau (1817 – 1862) (Walden or Life in the Woods)
Listener up there! Here, you! What have you to confide to me? Look in my face, while I snuff the sidle of evening; Talk honestly—no one else hears you, and I stay only a minute longer.
Do I contradict myself? Very well, then, I contradict myself; (I am large—I contain multitudes.)
I concentrate toward them that are nigh—I wait on the door-slab.
Who has done his day’s work? Who will soonest be through with his supper? Who wishes to walk with me?
Will you speak before I am gone? Will you prove already too late?
The spotted hawk swoops by and accuses me—he complains of my gab and my loitering.
I too am not a bit tamed—I too am untranslatable; I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.
The last scud of day holds back for me; It flings my likeness after the rest, and true as any, on the shadow’d wilds; It coaxes me to the vapor and the dusk.
I depart as air—I shake my white locks at the runaway sun; I effuse my flesh in eddies, and drift it in lacy jags.
I bequeathe myself to the dirt, to grow from the grass I love; If you want me again, look for me under your boot-soles.
You will hardly know who I am, or what I mean; But I shall be good health to you nevertheless, And filter and fibre your blood.
Failing to fetch me at first, keep encouraged; Missing me one place, search another; I stop somewhere, waiting for you.
2 comments:
thanks for the reminder--I need to remember to see the color amongst the grey.
and your sage is so alive! ours is droopy and sad.
Funny, I responded to your comment, but the response got deleted somehow.
Yes, it's necessary to see the color. I find the grey unbearable if I can't see beyond it.
My other sage, planted in the garden, is doing even better -- I posted photos of it and the thyme after my failed attempt to respond to you.
How's Japan? :)
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