Red berries persist on trees standing deep in glistening, blowing snow.
Sunny wind-whipped frost could as easily be ocean spray.
Wave after wave, while we persist.
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Snowy day on Walkabout.
Snow plows push through, leaving streets that are sheets of ice. Easier for cars, harder for pedestrians.
Walking the route twice this time, I find snowfall eased the slick. Erased the bald ice and laid down enough texture to get a foothold.
Good intention sometimes makes things tough. Traction. Given the chance, Nature finds ways to get you through.
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Eternal moments or endless hours, it is a serious understatement to say time is relative.
Time is precious though. A human-made construct to waste, or use, as we see fit.
For me, this year finally saw the end of five years of divorce and custody litigation. Muscular legal effort is the only remedy to a high conflict character. A great deal of wasted time and money to reach the obvious, and satisfactory, conclusion.
Souls were born, souls passed on, this year brought grief and joy for times had no longer.
In the meantime, the world writhed in its brutality, and its beauty.
Time. It is all we have – while we have it. Goodbye 2014.
May we find peace, health and happiness in the coming year.
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Eternity is out tonight, crowding empty streets.
Time’s arrow, the young turn elderly, generations blend, age, pass.
Unnoticed except by some in the larger moments.
Perhaps it is the snowflakes. Countless souls against the night sky.
Something in the air, eternity is out tonight.
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Rooms with a view…
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From a window, afternoon light filters through shifting, still-clinging autumn leaves onto a laundry room wall. Dazzling, real-time projection. Viewed but unrecorded by anything other than my memory. Home movies.
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Can you see through my eyes?
Fall leaves gold into green
Sun after clouds
Limitless blur of blue sky
Seasons slipping by me
A raucous jay, dimming light
Backlit gold into red
Rise and fall in the breathing wind
Years getting by me
I have seen too much
Nightfall
How I wish you were here
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Checking the tomato patch this morning, the darkened Monarch chrysalis was unchanged.
By noon, the same report.
By late afternoon, only an empty husk of a once bejeweled green chrysalis remained.
In the garden, astride a Verbena bonariensis, was a brilliant Monarch butterfly slowly fanning its wings.
By early evening, it was gone.
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