Green Tea

Roots

reaching deeply
to nourish your offspring
pine cone landing

This is in gracious response to the weekly prompt "Roots/Connection" at One Deep Breath. I hope all of our positive energy will permeate into the world and generate some love and care for nature, by reminding folks of our deep connection to her.

Open Heart - IF

This is in response to the weekly challenge "Red" at Illustration Friday I created this last year after discovering digital collage. It's a piece that is close to heart (no pun intended - well sorta), as it is a personal response to the open-heart surgeries I underwent in my 20s.
This collage is a creative outlet for the invasion, vulnerability, and fear that is intertwined in those memories. I'm curious to hear what you experience from this piece.

And then I felt inclined to actually create something specifically for this challenge, see RED ANTS

Buddha

Winter's Joke

[Chestnut-backed Chickadee]

snow melted
bramble rattles with noise
bird song

Writing Haiku

scratching out words to
reveal a picture's essence-
me writing haiku

I am thankful for One Deep Breath because they provide the opportunity to create and share some things dear to me - nature, photography, art and the beauty and simplicity of haiku.

Gandhi - A Peaceful Superhero - IF

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This is in response to the weekly challenge "Superhero" at Illustration Friday My first inclination when I read this week's challenge was Gandhi, he's my Superhero.

Everyone who wills can hear the inner voice. It is within everyone.
~Mohandas Gandhi

Layers

We are made up of layers. Our skin is composed of layers, as is the earth - our personality is layered. We unfold layer by layer as we learn more about ourselves. What comes to mind when you think of layers?

This is in response to the weekly challenge "LAYERS" at Inspire Me Thursday

Peaceful Stump

This is in response to the photo challenge for Photo Friday

Melting Snowman

River Reflection

it's watched you grow
limb by limb, leaf by leaf-
faithful river

This is in gracious response to One Deep Breath

A Journey

enlaced in white
by bitter cold, a journey
to the unknown

Bird

Subtle Change

you witness
day giving way to night-
old mountain

This is in gracious response to One Deep Breath

Emptiness

the year passes
leaving many things undone-
emptiness

Cathedral

nestled high
amongst the trees, waiting
to share the word

River

river awakens
to a new day, a new way
bending with life

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molded by nature
season after season
old river

The New Year is a time to look back, see were we've been and were we want to go. We can't change where we've been, only were we may go from here. Like a river, we flow year to year, day to day, moment to moment. Embracing the cycle of life.


This is in gracious response to One Deep Breath