If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere. —Laura Ingalls Wilder The next time you step into a field or walk your neighborhood, consider it a museum, a fine arboretum, a famous concert hall, and see the wildflower, hear the birdsong, feel the undulations of a west wind as you watch the sunContinue reading “A Whole World Waits”
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Brilliance
The sky was a giant wave, a crashing sea of blue, and the moon appeared to be rolling atop, a silver surfer riding along the rising curl. This universe astounds me, takes me by surprise, this grandeur of God’s creative mind, and I am humbled by the the unbound beauty, the refracted brilliance of lightContinue reading “Brilliance”
A Rare Focus
Sometimes you wait just long enough, patient to let the camera focus, allow the wind to pause, and your hand to steady before taking the shot…. This tiny bit of beauty, a blend of watercolors, lavender, orange, spring-green, each smooth line, each nuanced hue, all that define one unique flower becomes this perfect moment. IContinue reading “A Rare Focus”
Whispers
I still carry the lies she told me as I dressed her in fashion clothes so many years ago, her perfect hair, her tiny waist, her never- changing body that could wear anything, her plastic smile, her perfect life, an unattainable beauty we see today in cropped, filtered, altered images that continue the lie thatContinue reading “Whispers”
Subtle Shades
Our great desire is that you will keep on loving others as long as life lasts, in order to make certain that what you hope for will come true. — Hebrews 6:11, NLT They waited for someone to notice, so tiny and, from a distance, nondescript, a little sprinkle of white barely noticeable by evenContinue reading “Subtle Shades”
Dawn
I write in purple ink, lean into the lavender and lilac hues of blooms, linger in the violet and orchid sounds that resonate in the deep vibrations of the cello, dream of fields of thistle and heather, live in moods of mauve and periwinkle, long to paint my home with the dust of amethysts, allowContinue reading “Dawn”
Diffusing Beauty
Maybe flowers weep, heaving sadness up through the stem and down the tender leaves, distilling living beauty into the vapor of perfume so that at least their scent will be carried into a world too busy to slow into an awareness that beauty lives everywhere. —C.L. Fisher, March 2021 Unless otherwise indicated, all content, including writingContinue reading “Diffusing Beauty”
The Depths We Miss
Too often we hurry past a universe of beauty, depths just waiting to remind us that we live on a remarkable planet amid an astounding variety of created life. There is art in places we never think to look, there is loveliness that you must pause to see, so still your being and perceive theContinue reading “The Depths We Miss”
Steps
The steep bank at the end of a trail left us with our only option, and so we stood, gazed out upon the gentle waters, took time to consider the beauty of a moment before turning back, retreading, impressing our steps further into soil, joy- filled by the notion we had forged our part of aContinue reading “Steps”
Frozen Moment
In the bleak midwinter, frosty wind made moan, earth stood hard as iron, water like a stone; snow had fallen, snow on snow, snow on snow, in the bleak midwinter, long ago. —CHRISTINA ROSSETTI Our little house, stilled in a frozen moment on a Thursday morning, taking a deep breath in and waiting to exhale.Continue reading “Frozen Moment”
