Tears Susie, you allow the tears to fall, again. Thank you. Utterly breathtakingly beautiful.
Morning priorities most definitely are in order - fresh flowers and a fresh page. Creativity and beauty must take precedence, especially in times like these.
I love your hares. Having just written about "bunnies", not capturing them nearly as wonder -fully as you do hares, I resonate so much.
Thank you and may you continue to enjoy warm golden summer days. ❤️💛
How beautiful you give words to the split many of us are in Susie: the simple beauty we see around us when we look closely versus the horror of war we hear of more and more every day. We can only hope… xx
Thank you .. I am off to walk in an old-growth forest carrying your words in my soul and spirit. Words that offer solace and hope and trees that are testimonies to endurance.
Your words reach the beauty I see in my backyard and the pain in my heart because of that would-be king and those who rant about him. And then I find the words I know from Doris Lessing and your words about all you see so lyrically phrased that my heart stops hurting and is lifted.
You are, quite simply, a writer to love, Susie: Simply gorgeous!
Susie, I need to reread this several times. My mind, heart and soul are in a wee bit of a whirlwind, for what has been going on in my own life, and in the world. I’ve put up a barrier of sorts to not let it all in…so only my ears hear bits and pieces of world news, as I drive, but my eyes refuse to look at news for fear of crumbling into a mass of shattered pieces unable to be put back together. I need to reread your essay, the parts filled with hope and love, and beautiful images, to calm my brain enough to pray for a world in need of sanity and mostly in need of love.
Jeannine I am holding you close to my heart, with love and a tiny bottle of the heavenly scent I spoke of and, sending hope, always hope; what a desperate world this is when gifts become a necessity for our sanity and reason rather than just a heartfelt loving offer.
I feel your brokenness, your fear, I too am roaming in that darkest of places of the human spirit and good grief I don’t want to be here! But I have to believe there will be light soon, that we are inherently good and that our love and kindness will prevail. Everything in this world, the trees, the mountains, the great oceans and us, are made from the one same atom, and most of us are good people, perhaps its time to show the bad that we are strong too!
With love and thanks beautiful soul. Stay strong xx
Thank you Susie, for always helping me feel better! Oh how I wish you could send me a bottle of the heavenly scent of Tilleul! My favorite scent! (My mother-in-law had a tilleul tree outside her back patio! It had such a glorious scent! There is a street in Montreal that has Tilleul all along the sidewalks on both sides! (I keep forgetting to go walk there when they are in bloom!!)
I keep reading beautiful words (like yours) that make me remember and see that good does exist in our world, we all just need to focus on that more than on the other! Let us stay strong. Peace. xx
To have peace in our hearts Jeannine can never be wrong - hold on to it dear soul and yes, those beautiful words of others are a balm to unnecessary wounds, hold on to those too - as I do. 💞xx
We have to keep going Katharine, even when it’s hot and we’re tired and war mongering reigns and we can barely listen to the news anymore because our hearts are broken before even a word is spoken.
i want to tell you, Susie
to keep pointing your lens and shining your glowing light ✨
Darren I am, and will for as long as I have light to shine.💛
Beautifully put Susie - nature is the balm we all need in these unsettling times when there is so much horror in the world.
Thank you Lin, I think it might possibly be the only balm except for peace and we might be waiting a long time for that sadly...
May your week be calm and kind regardless. 💚
Thank you for these bittersweet tellings, the truest sort, and for showing us how to hold on to our hearts through it all, dear Susie. xo
“I want to tell you” that I wish I could be there and hold your hand while you tell me…
Wow.
Thanks Anna. Everything is a bit 'wow' one way or the other right now!
((Sigh)) thank you.
A sigh is good Laura, sighs mean caring... Thank you so much. x
I loved the descriptions of the hares and the barbels, Susie! Calm and magical moments.
Jeffrey thank you so much, I delighted you enjoyed those paragraphs especially!
I will be catching up with your posts very soon, apologies - its that time of year!
Beautifully put, Susie
Its hard to write beautifully of such an unholy mess Lynn, I glad you think so though! xx
Tears Susie, you allow the tears to fall, again. Thank you. Utterly breathtakingly beautiful.
Morning priorities most definitely are in order - fresh flowers and a fresh page. Creativity and beauty must take precedence, especially in times like these.
I love your hares. Having just written about "bunnies", not capturing them nearly as wonder -fully as you do hares, I resonate so much.
Thank you and may you continue to enjoy warm golden summer days. ❤️💛
How beautiful you give words to the split many of us are in Susie: the simple beauty we see around us when we look closely versus the horror of war we hear of more and more every day. We can only hope… xx
The suffering is permeating the whole world, but still they continue on with their manic, depraved wars. I truly hope there is hope for humanity...
Thank you .. I am off to walk in an old-growth forest carrying your words in my soul and spirit. Words that offer solace and hope and trees that are testimonies to endurance.
Your words reach the beauty I see in my backyard and the pain in my heart because of that would-be king and those who rant about him. And then I find the words I know from Doris Lessing and your words about all you see so lyrically phrased that my heart stops hurting and is lifted.
You are, quite simply, a writer to love, Susie: Simply gorgeous!
Beautiful.
Great minds think alike! ❤️
Thank you Deirdre, I wish there was no need ever to feel the shame of being human. What are we doing?
I can’t stop thinking of the quote from Pope Leo that says war is always a defeat for humanity.
And I this “All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.” I think it was Steinbeck, I’d have to check though…
Susie, I need to reread this several times. My mind, heart and soul are in a wee bit of a whirlwind, for what has been going on in my own life, and in the world. I’ve put up a barrier of sorts to not let it all in…so only my ears hear bits and pieces of world news, as I drive, but my eyes refuse to look at news for fear of crumbling into a mass of shattered pieces unable to be put back together. I need to reread your essay, the parts filled with hope and love, and beautiful images, to calm my brain enough to pray for a world in need of sanity and mostly in need of love.
Jeannine I am holding you close to my heart, with love and a tiny bottle of the heavenly scent I spoke of and, sending hope, always hope; what a desperate world this is when gifts become a necessity for our sanity and reason rather than just a heartfelt loving offer.
I feel your brokenness, your fear, I too am roaming in that darkest of places of the human spirit and good grief I don’t want to be here! But I have to believe there will be light soon, that we are inherently good and that our love and kindness will prevail. Everything in this world, the trees, the mountains, the great oceans and us, are made from the one same atom, and most of us are good people, perhaps its time to show the bad that we are strong too!
With love and thanks beautiful soul. Stay strong xx
Thank you Susie, for always helping me feel better! Oh how I wish you could send me a bottle of the heavenly scent of Tilleul! My favorite scent! (My mother-in-law had a tilleul tree outside her back patio! It had such a glorious scent! There is a street in Montreal that has Tilleul all along the sidewalks on both sides! (I keep forgetting to go walk there when they are in bloom!!)
I keep reading beautiful words (like yours) that make me remember and see that good does exist in our world, we all just need to focus on that more than on the other! Let us stay strong. Peace. xx
To have peace in our hearts Jeannine can never be wrong - hold on to it dear soul and yes, those beautiful words of others are a balm to unnecessary wounds, hold on to those too - as I do. 💞xx
merci.
i want to tell you this:: you speak in the voice of kinship. you remind me to keep going
We have to keep going Katharine, even when it’s hot and we’re tired and war mongering reigns and we can barely listen to the news anymore because our hearts are broken before even a word is spoken.
Merci ma belle - courage xx
thanks for the note of courage as the tears roll.
always, k🌱
Mine just began falling again Katharine... I can't listen anymore. ❣️
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