tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8070917680632622858.post2581545348478259233..comments2024-03-24T15:26:36.890+10:00Comments on Paper Ponderings: Thursday Thoughts...Fiona Dempsterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09275413906419343228noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8070917680632622858.post-60800406765188406192017-05-18T13:43:22.812+10:002017-05-18T13:43:22.812+10:00What a beautiful beautiful journey of truth-seekin...What a beautiful beautiful journey of truth-seeking Marti. A real quest for understanding and knowing. Did you experience the pull of loneliness? or did the comfort of solitude travel with you? I love how the watching and listening at first, leads to ways to have conversations and ask questions and gather new friends. Thanks so much Marti, go well.Fiona Dempsterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09275413906419343228noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8070917680632622858.post-18060553270837720982017-05-18T13:41:00.844+10:002017-05-18T13:41:00.844+10:00So perfect Mo - I have listened to Mary Oliver rea...So perfect Mo - I have listened to Mary Oliver read this (On Being with Krista Tippett podcast) and the way she speaks makes it even more wonderful for me. Precious.Fiona Dempsterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09275413906419343228noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8070917680632622858.post-92216838539492075822017-05-18T13:39:46.155+10:002017-05-18T13:39:46.155+10:00She is special Liz - along with Mary Oliver. Go we...She is special Liz - along with Mary Oliver. Go well, keep looking...Fiona Dempsterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09275413906419343228noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8070917680632622858.post-82751426406962281882017-05-12T23:33:20.066+10:002017-05-12T23:33:20.066+10:00Finding one's truth: can a solitary introvert ...Finding one's truth: can a solitary introvert move about the country without the pull of loneliness? For me it started out when we sold our home and business in CA and spent 11 years traveling about the United States, moving from California to Maui,Washington, Texas, Tennessee and finally to New Mexico, renting homes,along the way.<br /><br />This was my Father's dream, an immigrant from Spain, who came to this country with hopes and dreams and found his joy in the land, in the people who became his friends. Never rich with material possessions, he was rich in spirit and at the end of his life, he asked me to go and find his America...what I learned, my truth, from sharing his dream is that one can be quiet, taking in the land more than the people at first but then because of the love of the land, questions come and answers are needed and conversations begun leading to friendships and so much more. Martihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01305881181604750937noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8070917680632622858.post-91382220077801405112017-05-12T07:55:30.530+10:002017-05-12T07:55:30.530+10:00holding the poem that Ann Lamott referenced close ...holding the poem that Ann Lamott referenced close to my heart<br />The Summer Day<br />Mary Oliver<br />Who made the world? <br />Who made the swan, and the black bear? <br />Who made the grasshopper?<br /> This grasshopper, I mean-<br /> the one who has flung herself out of the grass, <br />the one who is eating sugar out of my hand,<br /> who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down- <br />who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes.<br /> Now she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face. <br />Now she snaps her wings open, and floats away. <br />I don't know exactly what a prayer is. <br />I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down <br />into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass,<br /> how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields,<br /> which is what I have been doing all day.<br /> Tell me, what else should I have done? <br />Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon? <br />Tell me, what is it you plan to do<br /> with your one wild and precious life?Mo Crowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09004208849028911104noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8070917680632622858.post-23324656711207575892017-05-11T21:07:28.425+10:002017-05-11T21:07:28.425+10:00I do love Anne Lamott ... still looking for my tru...I do love Anne Lamott ... still looking for my truthLiz Ahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03397660873950991774noreply@blogger.com