Spirit of Life

I try to find the sacred in everything. UU, Nature, Musings

[ah-bright-wings]

Our Lady, who nursed her Holy Child to sleep on roadsides and slept on rock and grass, pray for those who live on the margins of our cities, for those who go hungry, for those whose gazes are avoided by passerbys. May Christ, in his mercy and love, be their hope.

This title, while a part of my "Ave Maria" series illustrating various Marian titles, is not an official title of the Blessed Virgin. It came to me one day, and I couldn't get it out of my mind.

There are a number of homeless who I have met and talked with over the years; there are many more who I, in my own busyness, fear, and indifference, have passed on by. Our Lady, who was homeless on the road to Egypt, must have a special heart for those cast aside. Praise God who still sees them. May he give us a greater courage and selflessness to reach out to our brothers and sisters who are in need of compassion.

You can find the other titles in the series on my page using #Ave Maria

[assflat]

This brings me so much comfort

[mmolia]

[wateryrealm]

i just love how because emily dickinson’s poems are classified by their first lines, accidental little poems just appear all the time in indexes and the table of contents. for example:

or

and

[moami]

being in your 20s and 30s is billy joel’s “slow down, you crazy child” and “slow down you’re doing fine, you can’t be everything you want to be before your time” and “though you can see when you’re wrong, you know you can’t always see when you’re right” all of a sudden and curling up around yourself, on the floor where it’s cool and calm, because yes I have to, and yes I am, and there is so much time and we are not running out because we are so so young in this world.

[deebeezkneez]

[ze0nitis-deactivated20240628]

this holds WEIGHT…

[brightlotusmoon]

This is power. Being able to maintain boundaries is a power shift.

[tiktoksthataregood-ish]

[natdrinkstea]

the beauty of being alive

A Boy Called June Pt. 1, ADJY // @stuckinapril // Anna-Laura // The Raven Boys, Maggie Stiefvater // @inkskinned // Hieroglyphs, The Oh Hellos // San Giorgio Maggiore at Dusk, Claude Monet // Episode 29: Fall Apart, Back Again Back Again

[ducklight]

@hopepunk-humanity

[oldgrowthjoy]

Too much of what I have to say makes only sense, so here;

The crash of the jaybird with

Gunpowder on the breeze like resentment of flies,

Lace as veins of thread, channeling light.

Soft everdown brown beneath black in the palm, realizing

'Iqu' is the droplet in liquid and deliquesce,

And I've never met a jazz song that I liked.

There. There are vital nutrients in absurdity

[oldgrowthjoy]

Just after dawn, I have thrice sustained life;

I have fed the garden, the cats, and myself.

Delights upon delights, for

How often does one get such an opportunity?

Oh!! That often?

How lucky am I to contribute so to the living of All Things!!

[banhmigoddess]

you don’t need to reinvent yourself this summer; you simply need to return to the things that make you feel most like you

[389]

Musings from Anna Fusco

[oldgrowthjoy]

I will die with so much poetry left within me, but I think that's alright, because like everything else, it will pass into the rest of the world and feed the worms and the little purple-white crowns of the spring crocuses and that will be more than eloquent enough for anything I might have said.

[oldgrowthjoy]

Ponds on the sidewalks, currents in the streets

Rivers in the gutters singing oh so sweet

Of the people they've been, of the heights they've achieved

Of the times where they were a laughing crane or bitten leaf

Of the things they will be in the times not yet seen

When they'll float and they'll fall and they'll freeze and they'll be

On the tops of the mountains, in the vault of the sea

[huariqueje]

The Sun - Dennis Ekstedt , 2025.

Canadian , b. 1961 -

Oil on canvas , 36 x 36 in.

[vintagewildlife]

Newborn velvet worm crawling on its mother By: Raymond A. Mendez From: Natural History Magazine 1985

[bogleech]

Most velvet worms are social by the way and form multi generational packs where the largest females are in charge and share food with all the babies 🙂

[our-queer-experience]

helen “trans people are perpetuating gender steriotypes” joyce is now upset that the scientific american is writing about how women were hunters too back in the day, not just mothers and caretakers. feminist win!

[the-gummy-worms-have-me]

I think I found the article!

The Theory That Men Evolved to Hunt and Women Evolved to Gather Is Wrong

The influential idea that in the past men were hunters and women were not isn’t supported by the available evidence

Read it if you have the time, it's very interesting.

[oldgrowthjoy]

what do you need to sit with today?

A dark and drooping form that understands. It IS so heavy. It IS so hard.

A small, warm and furry thing that isn't sure. It needs you.

You, but small. Why? What could have been different? Was it my fault?

A periwinkle to firebird sunset, slow, patient, implacable. Alone with you.

A tree that shelters calmly, smelling sweetly, full of flowers.

Voting ended onJun 26