Welcome this new day.

The Guest House

This being human is a guest house.

Every morning a new arrival.

A joy, a depression, a meanness,

some momentary awareness comes

As an unexpected visitor.

Welcome and entertain them all!

Even if they’re a crowd of sorrows,

who violently sweep your house

empty of its furniture,

still treat each guest honorably.

He may be clearing you out

for some new delight.

The dark thought, the shame, the malice,

meet them at the door laughing and invite them in.

Be grateful for whoever comes,

because each has been sent

as a guide from beyond.

— Jalaluddin Rumi, translation by Coleman Barks (The Essential Rumi)

La sa portach

Bogland

(Seamus Heaney)

We have no prairies 

To slice a big sun at evening-- 

Everywhere the eye concedes to 

Encrouching horizon, 

Is wooed into the cyclops' eye 

Of a tarn. Our unfenced country 

Is bog that keeps crusting 

Between the sights of the sun. 

They've taken the skeleton 

Of the Great Irish Elk 

Out of the peat, set it up 

An astounding crate full of air. 

Butter sunk under 

More than a hundred years 

Was recovered salty and white. 

The ground itself is kind, black butter 

Melting and opening underfoot, 

Missing its last definition 

By millions of years. 

They'll never dig coal here, 

Only the waterlogged trunks 

Of great firs, soft as pulp. 

Our pioneers keep striking 

Inwards and downwards, 

Every layer they strip 

Seems camped on before. 

The bogholes might be Atlantic seepage. 

The wet centre is bottomless.

D’ s Walk

Seashore

Sea shore sea shore

Beckoning

With those warm rays,

and gentle hands.

guide me forward 

and I will follow silently 

ever knowing

in my heart

that this is right.

Seashore 

I love your warmth

and I love that I am a humble pebble

that sits watching seasons upon your isle.

(Pebbles Dec 2010)

First Rose Of Summer

Today I open up my blog again.... the wandering continues but not as any of us could have anticipated.

In the days ahead I will link it with  themes from streamed masses.

I will also use this vehicle to bring photos that have been shared.