Never one to fear solitude or think of it as lonely,
she relishes alone-time.
The flowers and trees of the nearby fields
tell her their secrets.
Grateful for solitude, she turns off the radio to hear the quiet.
Bliss
No sunrise today.
Just a gradual un-darkening.
How can I find my bliss
on a cold-gray-rainy
November day?
Bliss and November?
Don’t belong together.
Diametrically opposed…
an oxymoron.
And so I turn
to the words of
the one who will never
Disappoint —
always faithful
even when I
am not.
Worldly bliss is
temporal,
ephemeral —
and never satisfies
the longing in our hearts.
I’m grateful for His grace
that is the only lasting
Bliss
this side of paradise.
Even on
a cold-gray-rainy
November day.
*photos taken with an iPhone 5C; edited with PicsArt.
Water
I lived without running water for a decade
and now that I re-read that sentence
I can hardly believe it myself.
But it has made me forever grateful for
my morning or evening shower;
filling a pasta pot with water from the sink;
and cold, clear water to drink.
*783 million people in the world do not have access to safe water. This is roughly 11 percent of the world’s population.
*An American taking a five-minute shower uses more water than the typical person living in a developing country slum uses in a whole day.
*12 percent of the world’s population uses 85 percent of its water.
the circle of life 