”If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment. If a shower drives us for shelter to the maple grove or the trailing branches of the pine, yet in their recesses with microscopic eye we discover some new wonder in the bark, or the leaves, or the fungi at our feet.”
~ Henry David Thoreau
(Journal, September 23, 1838)
“The Earth offers gift after gift — life and the living of it, light and the return of it, the growing things, the roaring things, fire and nightmares, falling water and the wisdom of friends, forgiveness. My god, the gift of forgiveness, time, and the scouring tides. How does one accept gifts as great as these and hold them in mind?
Failing to notice a gift dishonors it, and deflects the love of the giver. That’s what’s wrong with living a careless life, storing up sorrow, waking up regretful, walking unaware. But to turn the gift in your hands, to say, this is wonderful and beautiful, this is a great gift — this honors the gift and the giver of it. . . . Notice the gift. Be astonished at it. Be glad for it, care about it. Keep it in mind. This is the greatest gift a person can give in return.”
— Kathleen Dean Moore, Wild Comfort: The Solace of Nature
Elisa's Spot 
I have come back three times to look at this picture. No words arise, but I like it.
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I might like that it, or something about you, that induces coming back and not having any words, or being able to pick. Thank you Kathy!
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It’s funny what we don’t tell others. Like sometimes we don’t share that we came back three times and looked. I wanted to tell you this.
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It had me clapping and cackling with glee!
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Are you doing OK, my friend? See that you haven’t posted for a while, and am just wondering…
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Well, before the day that you asked, I was doing pretty well. Just not creative, dealing with graduation and getting Z squared away for college. J’s job shifted a lot so I am missing him terribly (this can affect so many things!) And mental health issues (of others) impeding upon my peace. I think that I simply refuse to accept that after all of my life that I do not get to have a wee bit of peace and space that if I cannot be acknowledged, that I can exist in a place that I can perceive as safe and as calm. I’m also doing PT for my shoulder which is flaring all sorts of health issues, so I feel sick and grumpy. Woo!! Isn’t that lovely sounding?!?! (Looking on what I just wrote I am thinking ewwww….get away from that person until they are better.–I suppose I am not being or feeling very nice about myself either.
In a general way, I have a home, I have enough food(really and not just in a reframed way). My health while debilitated isn’t going to cause my death–that I know of, so there is room for improvement! I have been giving up my morning computer/blog time to get to the Tree Place just after 6 to avoid some of the mental health issues that come at me as abuse, so that part is very important to my peace. I probably said more than you wanted to know and it is all some of the real. I thank you for asking, it’s very kind of you. (I just prayed and screamed the other day at God, that someone somewhere might consider that I’m horrid and that I have needs too…how I’m tired of sucking it up and holding it together when others don’t give a #^@&#! Suppose I will have to apologize now for not noticing or looking hard enough for the things that I think that I want.) I will want to be knowing how you are, as soon as I am able to look outside of my tiny circle that at the moment feels like half of the entire world! I wish you well Kathy!
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Sitting with you for a few minutes and feeling what it might feel like not to have peace & acknowledgment for many days in a row. I wish that for you, Elisa. Thank you for answering. Blessings…
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