I want to give myself utterly….

I want to give myself utterly….

Lake and Maple I want to give myself utterly as this maple that burned and burned for three days without stinting and then in two more dropped off every leaf; as this lake that, 
no matter what comes 
to its green-blue depths,
 both takes and returns it.
 In the still...
The beauty of a shell

The beauty of a shell

The natural beauty of a shell. My daughter was looking at this this morning and she said thoughtfully, “Sometimes I look at shells and think they are so beautiful that they can just have appeared, they must be ‘man-made'”. To which I instinctively...
Yoga – the whole picture

Yoga – the whole picture

Sometimes I get a bit weary of all the “look at how great my body and my life” yoga pictures and quotes that are out there. Mainly because I think they don’t show the whole picture. I love positivity and beautiful pictures, it’s great to celebrate as long as we...