Nature Nurtures
Nature Nurtures - What began on 10/10/18 as a 1 year project to write everyday about my observations regarding nature and the parallels with our lives continues as a daily practice and journey. Inspired by “A Year With Emerson” and my Great Grandfather, Henry Collins Brown (Founder of The Museum Of The City Of New York and NYC Human Interest Historian in the early 1900‘s), I look forward to sharing my musings.
A GIFT - FALLS, GROWS, ROLLS
The Leaf FALLS… and softly lands on the patio - hear it, notice it - A GIFT
The hydrangea GROWS (pop) - hear it, notice it - A GIFT
The fog ROLLS - see it in the distance, feel it, notice it as it blankets our world… rolling over us - A GIFT
Our foggy world right now IS the way to clarity!
Hear - See - Feel = Notice moments! As all we truly “have”!
B. Be. Being Present
Notice our GIFTS as often as possible - Slow down and look around - TYG
Be Aware - 2020
Crickets are coming alive with their music in the night (or early morn)
Birds sounds start later today…
Look up and around
See what I found (see and listen)
Our world will astound!
Take a moment
To calm down
When we look around…
Cricket in the 1st Dahlia of 2020 - Daily changes and growth - When I take a moment to BE AWARE… If I dare ; - ) The white petals come more alive and the center is blooming…
BE AWARE, take a moment, Breathe, Practice, Practice, Practice!
1000 days of Nature Nurture Observation and Musing - JOY>JOY>JOY & FUN
TYG
EYE SMILE - I SMILE
MMM - Morning Moon Meditation
As the full moon sets in the west - I gaze for zest.
Look up and watch all around…
The light in the sky is in my eye - brilliant today and always.
Follow light… From Dark to Light to Dark to Light
Light will always come - From low light to bright.
Be LIGHT
With a smile - An Eye Touch
EYE SMILE
I SMILE
😉
ENTHUSIASM - YES
Moon bursting brightly through the morning clouds,
lights up the day and our way,
to shine with radiant ENTHUSIASM this day!!!
Energy flows as the morning glows.
Going on the road to find the glorious colors as the sun kisses the clouds
AHHH…
The last few days of Spring - warmth touches my soul!
With ENTHUSIASM - YES!!!
SINGING - The birds!
TODAY…
The rain has kept the bird’s (song) at bay…
For a few minutes…
No thing or nothing can silence the beauty of a bird singing…
Music to my ears it appears…
Noise to some - Relax…
Listen and enjoy each unique tweak or tweet!!!
A gift to behold not just when we are old…
Take a few moments everyday in every way we can…
Find time for rest and recovery
-The best way to do Great work is to practice doing no work = energy and creativity when on!
Smile - Breathe - Grateful
TODAY!!!
QUESTION???
WHAT DOES THE CHIPMUNK ENJOY IN THE SNAPDRAGON?
SHE CHEWS IT DOWN - ONLY TO LEAVE IT ON THE GROUND…
IS SHE PRUNING FOR US?
TASTING THE SAP?
PLAYING?
OR JUST BEING A CHIPMUNK?
AHHH - THE QUESTIONS OF LIFE!
HOW SWEET THEY ARE
SOME TO BE ANSWERED - OTHERS NOT…
AN ANSWER TODAY
A NEW QUESTION TOMORROW ; - )
HAIKU - 5-7-5
PEACE FULL IN THE WOODS
TREES SO TALL AND SKY SO BLUE
BIRDS SINGING THEIR SONGS
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RAINING IN THE WOODS
NO ONE SEEMS TO LIKE IT MUCH
EXCEPT ME MYSELF
Dahlia Time !!!
Dahlias in the ground
So profound
as they come around
and
AWAKEN from their slumber…
REST AND RECOVERY IS DONE - OH HOW FUN!!!
Nurture them - then they Nurture us.
Watch them grow and so and sow…
Give us strength with their Love and Beauty.
Watch them closely as they come alive and thrive
TYG
Choice - Choose Acceptance!
Rain Brings Gain
Gain in Color, Gain in Growth, Gain in Beauty
What is it about - Disdain of Rain?
WETNESS?
CLOUD COVER?
Something to talk and complain about?
No Complaining, No Condemning, No Criticizing, No Gossiping…
Enjoy Rain’s sweet smells, the music of the fall - soft and hard, large and small.
See and hear it all…
Love and Accept what is…
Acceptance is a wise choice!
CHANGE
The quiet winds and breezes of CHANGE…
Softly and suddenly appear and disappear
Listen and observe Care - Fully
They are always there - winds, breeze, CHANGE
The garden is silent for a few minutes and I mean SILENT…
Nothing to hear and then that changes in an instant.
Breeze through the trees, animals growling, birds singing, train horn blowing and wheels turning,
trees rustling, me humming!!!
Moments here, Moments gone
CHANGE…
ENJOY
Spring is Springing ; - )
Morning wake up song
with window drawn…
I hear the sound of music from the birds, so long.
SMILE!!!
Cool and crisp fresh air
Oh so fair
A JOY to behold
Go out and be BOLD
with Presentness, Aliveness, Uniqueness and God’s Greatness
ENJOY the morning Spring Sky - Look up so high
Spring is Springing!!!
Fireball Falls…
On Tuesday April 6th 2021 at approximately 5:00 AM I was star gazing and BAM…
Look up and all around as much as we can -
For Joyous moments abound…
-WOW-
BIGGEST and longest streak in the sky for my eye
EVER!!!
A Glorious FIREBALL FALLS (NZ is that you?)
Spring energy in the air
Feel IT -
Touch IT -
Be touched by IT -
The pace of nature is in constant and perpetual motion…
Learn from and emulate the annual cycles and grow with time - catch wisdom from all - give and get to live and serve all - TYG
One Year Ago… REFLECTION
On Thursday April 2nd 2020, I wrote -
OBSERVATIONS - WEEK 3 OF “HOMENESS”…
COMMERCE IS STILL TRYING WITH PEOPLES POSITIVENESS… REALITY IS - The pain has just begun! SBG
A new world order is taking place - Going into Spring - Spring of growth and Fall of our former reality…
What is next and how do we all get along to fill our basic needs???
Spring in nature as buds bud…
Human Nature is in Autumn state
Needing rest and recovery with/from shock of change
Spring and Summer will be Fall and Winter -
As we “deal” with the newest nature pause…
IN OUR LIFE WE HAVE EXPERIENCED ECONOMIC HARDSHIP - THIS IS DIFFERENT!!!
MIAMI MORNINGS… 2021
City Song…
The music and sounds of the city - if we see it that way!
Crickets in the palms…
Breeze through the tress…
Palm trees blooming and bursting to drop their seeds…
NATURES SOUNDS ABOUND!!!
With the Bud truck rumbling by - Sirens in the distance is a reminder of human existence all around town…
MIAMI IN THE MORNING!!!
Seagulls chatter all around as the sun peeks above, and radiantly, in the horizon clouds.
Colors so bright - what a delight!
Life at the sea wall on Brickell Bay - Waves lapping underneath so softly today…
Take it easy they say - Oh what a way!!!!
A Bouquet or 2!!! LOVE…
In 1930 when the New York City newspapers heard a rumor that my great grandfather Henry Collins Brown (see above) had died, they wrote articles about his life and death. In his memoirs about his mental health journey he wrote about his thoughts after hearing these rumors in the chapter titled “OUR SUICIDE CLUB”:
“ I experienced the blissful sensation of being an object of interest to the outside
world. One or two obituaries were canceled just in time, so I did
not enjoy reading what a perfectly worthy citizen I really was, and
that was a great disappointment. I thought it was quite nice to
have the papers interested to this extent, and I have often wondered
what these obituaries contained. No doubt, they would have
been written in a kindly spirit, as we generally receive a bouquet or
two when they are no longer of use to us.”
Here are a few of my thoughts on his humorous take on this situation and on life…
Love One Another - Love Yourself… Give a bouquet or 2 Today!!!
Wondrous Sound
Spring Songs…
of early morn
Oh - how I long
for you!
1st garden “Sit” in northern Indiana in 2021… What a way to start my day!
(same date as in 2020)
Stoking the embers for today to light my fire of LOVE for all…
Never to stall…
Every day we must ignite anew to give all I’ve got for you.
In Spring the concert of the birds awakens and ignites my soul with energy profound…
WHAT A WONDROUS SOUND…
PATIENCE… The Dippers!
Bright sky light and show
Dipper High - Dipper Low.
Where do you go?
Moving so SLOW!
-PATIENCE-
From year to year.
See it glow.
From place to place.
As we GROW…
Moving slow - Moving fast.
AT LAST
We arrive at today!
Today will soon be yesterday.
AND
Tomorrow will be today.
Let’s Make it Great.
For this is our fate.
Moment to Moment to Moment
TYG
Let it Be
And see the light - In Patience