Adjust your sails...

I've never been sailing.

I understand that it's hard work,

attending to subtle nuances of weather

sudden violent changes of

cold wet spray

blazing hot sun

rolling with wind and waves 

to avoid going off course.

At least not too far off course.

Adjust your sails, re-plot your course and accept the wind.

“The key to life is accepting challenges.

Once someone stops doing this, he’s dead.”

~ Bette Davis

Thinking like a snail...

When the leaf I have in front of me seems absolutely ginormous,

I really wonder if I should even try to eat it.

"I'm sure that I can't eat all of that!"

~~~~~

Not a problem for Mr. or Mrs Snail.

Just one steady bite at a time gets the job done.

No thinking, studying or mulling.

Just one bite at a time.

“It does not matter how slowly you go

as long as you do not stop.”

~ Confucius

Nuances of light

reflections of shadowed sun

on cloud and water 
monochromatic 
depth of meaning

edged in blue and green.

“Subtle nuances, fine finishes and 

overall quality are most important.”

~ Bruce Montgomery

Satisfaction.....

....a good comfortable feeling. 

Never an ending 
nor a resignation. 

Lessons from a well flown flight

opens an eternity of possibilities.

Flying again and again

farther, higher with belief ~

one wing span at a time.

“Our aspirations are our possibilities.”

~ Samuel Johnson

There is great satisfaction....

...in being a frog.

not just any frog mind you.

and not just anywhere either.

But a beautiful, colourful ceramic frog.

Squatting in a Texas herb garden

full of lovely hot sun,

feet tucked beneath a colourful frog bottom

and, I'm sure, frog toes buried in the warm sand.

Yes, I'm very sure.

Satisfaction has a very frog-like quality to it.

(I think Kermit would agree!)

“To be satisfied with what one has; that is wealth.”

~ Mark Twain

Of all the life....

.....surrounding me.

Ducks swim in formation.

Geese fly in a V.

Henry Heron sits

lonely in his tree.

Trees in leaf of many kinds,

flowers of different coloured hue

decorate this world

for me and you.

A silly piece of poetry

and long past bedtime

For me and thee!

Good night.  (Yawwn!)

“Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet 

and the winds long to play with your hair.”

~ Kahlil Gibra

A Riddle?

When is a knot not a knot?

When it's a bird's nest!

Maybe 'thought knots' are merely tightly woven 'word nests' hatching fragile ideas.

“What can promote innocent mirth, and 
I may say virtue, more than a good riddle?” 

~ George Eliot, Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life