A simple please & thank you. A call for spring and gratitude when it finally arrives. That's how my week has been. A simple call... Please. And a response. Thank you. There's not a lot more a gal can say. Still feeling overwhelmed by the reality of our 'new normal,' but finding solace outside, with camera, texture & color. And as happens, when I frame leaves or flowers, stories emerge. Today blankets of Sweet Woodruff reveal the truth about perennials, how they sleep, creep, then leap. Yesterday, the story was about people - - crowds at the annual Yard Sale where I purchased this dignified bird, my friend Larry, who gave me these violets, and Elmer, from whom we purchased these River Birch trees over a decade ago. And then there's dandelions, showing up in random places, a pesky weed for some, but a cheerful harbinger of health for others. It's all about the narrative we choose. The dandelion at the foot of a tree, shaded by daffodils feels different from the dandelion blowing in the wind on a grassy hillside at the landfill. And the hawk soaring above that same landfill inspires a different kind of reverence than do robins digging in my yard. I love how even when alone in the garden or on a hillside in an industrial part of town, I am with others, part of a narrative that transcends the weather on a single day or my state of mind in a given moment. Please.
May I find hope in a time of trouble. Thank you for the gifts that emerge. Forget me not. The world is sweet, even though it can be hard to focus & things feel blurry when people & plants try to share space. It's possible, though. So much is possible.
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Evelyn R. Swett
reframing the narrative in community and with myself, finding transformation and joy in the mess of it all Let's ReFrame!
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