Photo Source: eBird.com Surprise! I managed to write a Birdtober poem every day this week. I'll add links to them later in this post. ...

  Photo Source: https://kidadl.com/facts/animals/zebra-finch-facts I chose the Zebra Finch photo here to illustrate this Australian bird bec...

  Photo Source: eBird   Twenty-six years ago, my husband and I spent Christmas in northern Japan, and we were taken to see swans that had mi...

    There are over 350 species of hummingbirds in the world. We don't have them where I live, though we have sunbirds, which are reminis...

Photo Source: eBird.com   Why are these guys called Macaroni Penguins? Here’s eBird’s explanation: “Disappointingly, named for the resemblan...

Book #44 of the year was  Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life , by Tish Harrison Warren. I really enjoyed this book, ...

  Photo Source: eBird.com   When we lived in Paraguay, I often saw three Campo Flickers all together. Rarely did I see one or two of them; i...

Photo Source: https://www.raising-happy-chickens.com/why-have-rooster.html I love that the first prompt of Birdtober this year is Rooster. B...

Hello, Poetry Friday friends! It has been a while since I've managed to post anything for Poetry Friday. The last time was in July, and ...

Book #37 of the year was The Memory Thief , by Emily Colin. I kept reading this book, about a man who dies in an avalanche but then is some...

Carol Varsalona is our host today and has asked us to reflect on the way summer nurtures our souls. I decided to go (mostly) wordless and s...

  This week, my total number of cycling miles since I joined Strava in April clicked over to 1000. ( Strava is an app to keep track of athle...

I'm in the United States during this warm, dry summer. Some of the best moments in the last few weeks have involved friends, family, bir...

Book #33 of the year was a re-read, How to Survive a Shipwreck: Help is On the Way and Love is Already Here , by Jonathan Martin. Since I b...

I love Gerald Stern's description of the mind in this poem. Is the mind more like a piece of paper or a squirrel? You decide.  I Remembe...

Book #27 was Father of the Rain , by Lily King. This is the story of Daley, first in her childhood as her parents are splitting up, and the...

  "The joy that Jesus offers his disciples is his own joy, which flows from his intimate communion with the One who sent him. It is a j...

Book #19 of the year was a non-fiction title, The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century , by Kirk ...

Ada Limón has a new book of poetry coming out! I haven't read it, but I sure wanted to when I heard this podcast this week . That link w...

This month's host, Susan , has asked us to reflect on the topic of Abundance. What a complicated word this is for me. I ask in advance f...