Showing posts with label Valentine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Valentine. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 14, 2023

Happy Valentine's Day

 Another February 14th rolls around, and I send you all my love and Valentine greetings.

This year finds me on a health kick: lots of walking and lots of vegetables.  And then, as if to encourage me, one day this happened:

Serendipity

All I did was trim the end of the root. The radish shared serendipitous love!  



This is as close to snow as we've had this winter, but no complaints. I like good walking weather.

This Valentine's Day I think I will finally succeed in memorizing a favorite love poem.  When was the last time you tried memorization?  Brains like a good challenge.


Percy Bysshe Shelley

“The fountains mingle with the river,
And the rivers with the ocean;
The winds of heaven mix forever,
With a sweet emotion;
Nothing in the world is single;
All things by a law divine
In one another's being mingle:—
Why not I with thine?

See! the mountains kiss high heaven,
And the waves clasp one another;
No sister flower would be forgiven
If it disdained its brother;
And the sunlight clasps the earth,
And the moonbeams kiss the sea:—
What are all these kissings worth,
If thou kiss not me?”

― Percy Bysshe Shelley


We recently sang an anthem that has such wonderful words, I want to share them here:
Beloved, God's chosen,
put on as a garment
compassion, forgiveness
and goodness of heart.
Above all, before all,
let love be your raiment
that binds into one
every dissonant part.


I love the image of binding into one all our dissonant parts. May it be so. 
Again, "Happy Valentine's Day!"  Be well, be happy, and shine your light!

Thursday, February 10, 2022

Some winter cheer...

Thanks to Linda for hosting the Friday Poetry Friday gathering today. You can see her heart collection and poetry, and follow links to other bloggers at TeacherDance. Thanks for hosting, Linda, and Happy Valentine's Day to you. 

Have you noticed how fast time slips by?  How crazy that it's almost Valentine's Day.  Here are a couple of heartwarming images...

My sweet granddaughter...
 

New Snow

I love it
So white and glittery
And it crunches
Under my boots
I made this snow girl 
She wanted a pink hat
And I made her a heart
We both smiled

© Karen Eastlund

Best wishes to all for a lovely week.

A heart collage in the spirit of the month...


Friday, February 12, 2021

In the Arms of the Maple

 Happy Friday...  It's almost Valentine's Day, so I'm sharing this warm heart with you and yours.

We happen to be in the portion of NJ that has been endowed with 29" of snow in the past two weeks or so. And it sounds like more to come. I'm a winter person and I mostly enjoy the startling change in the landscape, the beauty, the crisp air. So... I took this photo one day before the sun melted the snow off, and I've been trying to write about it. So far I've fiddled with an etheree.  Let me know what you think... 



In the Arms of the Maple


Each

branch and

twig reaches

out to gather

the cold confetti

(a handout that dazzles

and drapes for stylish soirees)

then north wind blasts some cool music

and ev-ry limb shimmers and shakes 'til

glitter bomb!!! Looks like winter threw a fete!


© Karen Eastlund



Poetry Friday is hosted today by Molly Hogan at nixthecomfortzone.com  Thanks so much for hosting, Molly, and for your beautiful artist's prayer poem.

Be well, and have a wonderful week!