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Newborn Delight
If it’s not obvious this week, my final reflections on “delight” have me out in nature. A couple of weeks ago, I took my morning coffee out into our back yard which faces into the woods. The sun was just … Continue reading
Difficult Delights
This little guy showed up at our back door recently the day after our daughter had been visiting from North Carolina. The synchronicity of his appearance (first rabbit I’d seen all spring or summer) immediately became a joke for us. … Continue reading
Perennial Delights
These beautiful, almost fluorescent orange and purple, Echinaceas (aka Coneflowers) began blooming in our yard recently. One day, it was just a bed of green, mostly mint, with these flowers hiding in the camouflage, and the next these outrageous and … Continue reading
Drawing # 3–Waves of Delight
When I stared at the blank drawing paper on this particular day, I suddenly felt these waves of water washing across the page. Over the next half hour, this drawing is what emerged–a sort of semi-abstract, semi-symbolic portrayal of waves. … Continue reading
Drawing # 2–The Heart’s Delight
In yesterday’s post, I shared how drawings have become, at least for the time being, my way of journaling. In this sort of journaling, we invite an image to present itself to us. My way is to sit in front … Continue reading
Drawing Delight # 1
For most of my life, I have kept a journal. It’s not been every day for 64 years, but it’s been for stretches of time, writing daily in a notebook about whatever was going on in the internal and external … Continue reading
In Our Hands
This is an excerpt from a post I wrote in 2017. At first glance, it’s not the bright, sunshiny sort of thing one would expect under the theme of “delight” which we are focusing on in June 2023. Bear with … Continue reading