I’m getting up early to have a coffee outside, to sit and watch the birds as they perch on the feeders and busy themselves caring for fledglings.
I saw a fluffy young house sparrow up on my neighbour’s roof yesterday. They breed there every year where there’s a hole in the fascia board. There’s also a large group of gregarious sparrows living in a huge overgrown blackberry bush in my vegetable garden. Then there’s a cheeky robin who comes to investigate the patches of bare soil where I’ve weeded and yesterday I disturbed a pregnant toad when I was shifting compost. I covered it up again.
There’s so much time to sit and watch. Thank god for wild creatures. They give me hope at this troubled time.
@drewnoggal saidYour last few sentences reminded me of this poem by Wendell Berry:
I’m getting up early to have a coffee outside, to sit and watch the birds as they perch on the feeders and busy themselves caring for fledglings.
I saw a fluffy young house sparrow up on my neighbour’s roof yesterday. They breed there every year where there’s a hole in the fascia board. There’s also a large group of gregarious sparrows living in a huge overgrown black ...[text shortened]... o much time to sit and watch. Thank god for wild creatures. They give me hope at this troubled time.
When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
~
@hakima saidBeautiful words, it helps to lose yourself from time to time.
Your last few sentences reminded me of this poem by Wendell Berry:
When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives w ...[text shortened]... blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
~
@ghost-of-a-duke saidSounds purrfect šŗ
I'm working from home now, so have made an office in the bedroom. My cat is my new work colleague.
@ghost-of-a-duke saidCosy š
I'm working from home now, so have made an office in the bedroom. My cat is my new work colleague.
@drewnoggal saidInitially, she was a little suspicious of me being there, as she stretched out on her sunny spot on the bed.
Sounds purrfect šŗ
Think she's become accustomed to my presence.
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@drewnoggal saidReading that post was a true pleasure.
I’m getting up early to have a coffee outside, to sit and watch the birds as they perch on the feeders and busy themselves caring for fledglings.
I saw a fluffy young house sparrow up on my neighbour’s roof yesterday. They breed there every year where there’s a hole in the fascia board. There’s also a large group of gregarious sparrows living in a huge overgrown black ...[text shortened]... o much time to sit and watch. Thank god for wild creatures. They give me hope at this troubled time.
As was following it with Hakima's poem.
I needed the deep, ponderous moment.
@ghost-of-a-duke saidYou sir, don't have a den?....I am surprised!
I'm working from home now, so have made an office in the bedroom. My cat is my new work colleague.
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@lemondrop saidDon't forget to add your two cents worth! š
I spent the last hour waiting for my opponent to make a move
I'll spend the next hour reading the forums
I'll take a break
and start all over
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@very-rusty saidMy wife has acquisitioned that as a painting room.
You sir, don't have a den?....I am surprised!
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@ghost-of-a-duke saidAhhhh....I see it explains it. Have you thought about the dining room? Working where you sleep doesn't sound like a great idea even to me.
My wife has acquisitioned that as a painting room.
Unless of course it is a spare bedroom, hadn't thought of that you could have a bed just for the cat.
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