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Living in a Snow Globe

Today the sun is shining on a snow-covered world. Looking out my windows I still feel like I’m Living In a Snow Globe just before you shake it up to see the snow flakes falling. The trees and plants still have coatings of snow clinging to them from last week’s snowstorm and some of the evergreens in the neighborhood have boughs bending almost to the ground because of their heavy covering of snow. Look carefully around you and recognize the luminosity of souls. Sit beside those who draw you to that.    — Rumi I cannot remember a string of Read more…

By Marilyn, ago

2022 Favorite Photos

It has taken me longer than I expected, but I finally finished narrowing my 2022 Favorite Photos down to a dozen favorites. It took me a long time of removing, then adding back photographs, and finally removing again before I felt satisfied with this set of images. They feel somewhat mundane to me. Of course the miraculous resides in the mundane, for the genius of the mundane is that it is never filled with any of itself. And because it is not, it has ample space to house something as miraculous as the miraculous.” ― Craig D. Lounsbrough But I Read more…

By Marilyn, ago

Morning Light

Most mornings I sit in my bedroom chair beside the window to meditate immediately after I put on my clothes for the day. I’ve learned that if I don’t sit to meditate right away, I probably won’t take the time to sit and meditate later either. But sometimes the Morning Light delights me so much that I get up out of my meditation chair and find my camera so that I can make a photograph of what I see out my window. This morning was one of those mornings. With the snow covered trees across the pond a tint of Read more…

By Marilyn, ago

In My Neighborhood This Morning

Well, it looks like the snow has finally ended. In My Neighborhood This Morning everything is covered with a thick layer of snow. The depth of the snow is astonishing. This is what the side of our driveway looks like. I cannot see our mailbox from the house because of the height of the snow in our yard. Thank God for snow blowers and my husband who can still wield our snow blower. I would not be able to shovel all of the heavy wet snow we got. Where we live, the streets are wide and parking on the street Read more…

By Marilyn, ago

Winter Wonderland Again!

It’s unusual to the kind of snowstorm that leaves everything coated in thick layers of snow this time of year. Usually this kind of winter wonderland arrives in March and quickly disappears. But this morning I awoke to Winter Wonderland Again in January after a previous storm that left everything coated in snow for days just a couple of weeks ago. For those who have to drive somewhere in this snow, it’s no fun. It’s dangerous and slow-going when the roads are coated with snow and the snow keeps coming. I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, Read more…

By Marilyn, ago