The hole in our hearts.
To Learn From Animal Being
Nearer to the earth's heart, Deeper within its silence: Animals know this world In a way we never will.
We who are ever Distanced and distracted By the parade of bright Windows thought opens: Their seamless presence Is not fractured thus.
Stranded between time Gone and time emerging, We manage seldom To be where we are: Whereas they are always Looking out from The here and now.
May we learn to return And rest in the beauty Of animal being, Learn to lean low, Leave our locked minds, And with freed senses Feel the earth Breathing with us.
May we enter Into lightness of spirit, And slip frequently into The feel of the wild.
Let the clear silence Of our animal being Cleanse our hearts Of corrosive words.
May we learn to walk Upon the earth With all their confidence And clear-eyed stillness So that our minds
Might be baptized In the name of the wind And the light and the rain.
~ John O'Donohue
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The skirt the boots and Ziggy love
So often I watched him come and go
So easy to recall
Break buddy
Such a doll in the street light
I wanted to laugh but his intense little walk demanded respect.
A doggy with a purpose
A coworker
We were blessed
We have lost 60% of our little shortie herd over the past couple of years, and also my beautiful friend Mouffette quite unexpectedly. There will be two new kitties coming very soon because life moves on and it always best shared with fuzzy companions.
I hope you are well.
❤️ Janet