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Interdependence

Yesterday I had a tooth extracted, and a bone graft put in place.  In four months, the bone will have integrated with my own bone, so I can have an implant.  For now, I am aware of the integration, the curiosity of my bone with this, what may seem like an intrusion, and the care with which the procedure was done.  My dentist’s son, who is 18, wants to be a dentist, so I gave permission for him to be there, too.  Sometimes I close my eyes for dental procedures, but yesterday when I opened them, I saw three faces peering in, the dentist, the assistant, and his son.  Three people were taking care of one small area in the rear of my mouth.  How amazing is that?

Plants reach to cover rocks and people with death donate bones for grafts. Transformation!

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Children in Nature

Yesterday I was at the beach for a five year old’s birthday party.  Five children to celebrate a five year old.  Each child’s party favor was a kite.  In the howling wind, the father patiently put each kite together and each child waited patiently for their turn. Grandson got a green King Cobra kite, which he found thrilling since he loves snakes and the color green.

I’m with the words of Julia Butterfly Hill: 

If we take action out of anger, we’re only making more problems in the world. But when you can take action out of love, then miracles can happen.  

Joy in Flight: Kites and Birds
A King Cobra kite soars
The link between land and sky
Children huddle around the brownies to ensure the candle for being five stays lit until the birthday girl blows it out. Pure Joy!

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Safari West

We spent the night at Safari West, a refuge for animals, the environment, and visitors.

Mother Lemur with her three week old baby boy
Mother and child giraffe inside because of cold and rain
Baby Gemsbok, a type of Oryx, “stashed” while her mother gets food.
Another photo of Mother Lemur and Baby
Sharing a Habitat
Strolling with glamour, confidence and grace
A wonderful life
A beautiful couple atop a Power Wagon



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Balance

Rumi:

“Your hand opens and closes, opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralyzed. Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding, the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated as birds’ wings.”

Photos from where I live.

Siesta for Ducks
Coming Closer
An array of painted rocks in the park
One large painted rock in the grass
A neighbor puts out chalk to inspire creative design in their driveway
A collection
Four-leafed Clover
It’s Spring!

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Impermanence

I went to Rodeo Beach early this morning where it was sunny and warm, no wind.  I watched the changing waves, some flat, others crashing and flaring.  I saw a Great Blue Heron, bluebirds, and otters in the lagoon.  Sitting down on a “bench”, I learned from a passerby that the bench wasn’t there yesterday, and yet there it was, for a moment, today.

Great Blue Heron
Calm
A place to sit today
Exuberance
Shadow and Light



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Renewal

Mushrooms are decomposers, recyclers, that nourish the soil. With the rain, they popped up overnight in our yard representing what works unseen.

Peeking Harvest
Nesting
Fairies also do their work unseen
OM
Circling
Sprig springs from rock

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Light

Already I see and feel the increasing light.  I open Mary Oliver’s book Owls and Other Fantasies since this morning I was out early to hear an owl’s joyful hoot of goodbye to night.

In one essay called Bird, she writes of finding an injured black-back gull and bringing him into their home.  Seriously injured, he survived in their home for a few months, bringing interest, comfort, and delight. Even as he was dying, she writes, “And still the eyes were full of the spices of amusement”.  And then, …

“He was, of course, a piece of the sky. His eyes said so. This is not fact, this is the other part of knowing something, when there is no proof, but neither is there any way toward disbelief. Imagine lifting the lid from a jar and finding it filled not with darkness but with light. Bird was like that. Startling, elegant, alive.”

And then, he wasn’t, but still each day morning comes with light.

Two seals play in San Francisco Bay
Bridge doubles in the light!

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Wonder

Today we were at Land’s End and the Cliff House. Who could not exult and be astonished.

In Rick Rubin’s book, The Creative Act: A Way of Being, he writes:

There’s a reason we are drawn

to gazing at the ocean.

It is said the ocean provides

a closer reflection of who

we are than any mirror.

Kevin Kelly reminds us:

The chief prevention against getting old is to remain astonished.

Totem Power
Carving
Seeing
Steadying
Splashing

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Tis the Season

Today I was in the Sausalito bookstore, Books by the Bay.  This time of year, stores in Sausalito participate in a contest display of gingerbread houses. Perusing, I met a lovely woman visiting from India who had just come from Muir Woods.  We both agreed Muir Woods is a cathedral. She shared a photo with this sign.

In Muir Woods
Conversation Starters!

The Gingerbread House
Stuffed Friend! We noticed some candy had been nibbled from the house!
Stained glass window in the Gingerbread House!