All these connections

Farming, vocabulary, art, colors, geography, botany, shapes, textures, joy, comfort, gifts, humor, lunch.

Most things are many things.

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photo by Roya Dedeaux
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Be afraid of fears, maybe

Joyce Fetteroll, on unfounded fear:


It's natural to want to be safe rather than sorry. In fact it's natural to listen to fears. Evolutionarily speaking if an animal runs when frightened but is wrong, nothing is lost except dignity. If an animal doesn't run when frightened but there is something wrong, they're dead. We're wired to listen to our fears.

But these warnings aren't about known dangers like earthquakes in LA or tornados in Oklahoma. This is about protecting your kids from shadows that might be dragons.

So while your family hunkers down behind dragon-proof walls, your kids' friends will all be out playing happily as though dragons don't exist.

—Joyce Fetteroll

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photo by Karen James
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Thinking...

Read a little, try a little, wait a while, watch.

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photo by Colleen Prieto\

Be where you are

This is a great illustration of principles over rules. What is the purpose of a fence? Of a tree?

It could also represent the intermingling of interests and needs in a partnership.

Then I thought it was more like openness to experience, and the willingness and adaptability to change a plan.

photo by Sylvia Toyama

Morning every moment

Somewhere in the world it is morning every moment. Somewhere, light is dawning. Some people, and I’m one of them, believe that any portal to the universe leads to the whole universe, and if that's true we should be able to get to everything in the whole wide world (and beyond) without much effort from something as small as, say, the definition of a word. How about “morning” and its particulars—daybreak, dawn and sunrise?

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photo by Sandra Dodd
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Shadows in the sunshine

I like shadows. They are temporary and insubstantial, yet where I live, they can be a lifesaving break from unrelenting heat, in summer. In winter, they can preserve some snow for a while, when all the rest is gone. That's a lot of strength and power.

So maybe it's the bench, the bars, the beams, the building that so powerfully provide a shade.

Something about this is powerful.

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photo by Heather Booth
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Living becomes learning

Living becomes learning. How many hours a day do you live? All of them.

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photo (a link) by Sandra Dodd