Sunrise met the meadow stark and spare
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The art of noticing
For me, wonder flows from paying attention to the world around me, whatever or wherever that happens to be at the moment. Paying attention to what is outside and beyond myself is necessary to get my eyes off me and onto the world God made, and then on to Himself.
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november morning
when i woke this morning
the ground lay thick with leaves
november walk
a sparkle in the morning sun —
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from outside my window
from outside my window
i can hear a single mourning dove’s melancholy coo
while the June wind whips the branches of the oak tree
may day
thus has may begun
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april day
a rustle, a roar
branches sway, cottonwood leaves
shimmer in the wind
the apple tree
the apple tree is now
only a shattered trunk
rotting away by the roadside
lavender lilacs
lavender lilacs
have bloomed, blown, fallen to earth
now nourishing soil
white lilacs
smell the white lilacs
their heads heavy with raindrops
drink them in, and in
