animal kingdom / LIVING WELL

little mysteries

I'm just popping in tonight to say thank you for your thoughts and comments you shared on yesterday's post. Once again, I woke up with that urge to hit the delete button and keep that post to myself, but your words and understanding made me glad that I didn't. Thank you for taking a moment to read my thoughts and my frustrations, for understanding my perspective and sharing in my joys and trials.

My gratitude is swelling up and over flowing.

I was listening to a song tonight by Josh Garrels*. And the first lines seemed to sum it all up well:

Learn this lesson well, my friend.
There's a time to rejoice and lament.
Every season will find an end.
All will fade and be made new again.

little mysteries

Meanwhile, Emma brought this bird nest in to me on Saturday when high winds were doing things like pulling down branches and knocking out internet connections.

little mysteries

How can I look at this and not be amazed? The shape. The weaving of horse hairs, no doubt collected from the neighbor's fields. Pieces of orange twine that wrap the round bales in our other neighbor's pasture.

little mysteries

How do they do it?

These tiny little birds. With no pattern, no frame, no extra set of hands. It is beautiful. And amazing. And breathtaking. And awe-inspiring.

* I cannot say how much this latest CD
from Josh Garrels is getting to me lately. The music is poetic and has such depth. He paints pictures with the sounds and the words. It is so good. So true. So pure.
I especially like Jacaranda Tree :: The Original Spacefan :: Don't Wait for Me ::

I'm just popping in tonight to say thank you for your thoughts and comments you shared on yesterday's post. Once again, I woke up with that urge to hit the delete button and keep that post to myself, but your words and understanding made me glad that I didn't. Thank you for taking a moment to read my thoughts and my frustrations, for understanding my perspective and sharing in my joys and trials.

My gratitude is swelling up and over flowing.

I was listening to a song tonight by Josh Garrels*. And the first lines seemed to sum it all up well:

Learn this lesson well, my friend.
There's a time to rejoice and lament.
Every season will find an end.
All will fade and be made new again.

little mysteries

Meanwhile, Emma brought this bird nest in to me on Saturday when high winds were doing things like pulling down branches and knocking out internet connections.

little mysteries

How can I look at this and not be amazed? The shape. The weaving of horse hairs, no doubt collected from the neighbor's fields. Pieces of orange twine that wrap the round bales in our other neighbor's pasture.

little mysteries

How do they do it?

These tiny little birds. With no pattern, no frame, no extra set of hands. It is beautiful. And amazing. And breathtaking. And awe-inspiring.

* I cannot say how much this latest CD
from Josh Garrels is getting to me lately. The music is poetic and has such depth. He paints pictures with the sounds and the words. It is so good. So true. So pure.
I especially like Jacaranda Tree :: The Original Spacefan :: Don't Wait for Me ::

25 comments on “little mysteries”

  1. Looking at that amazing nest, it is immediately apparent why we say “nesting” of expectant mothers: just women, with no extra set of hands, working the amazing miracle of giving and preparing for life!

  2. What a beautiful nest! I like the cd. I feel like you do some days, it’s not such a simple life after all but i do love it 🙂

  3. Beautiful nest, I read somewhere about a woman who puts out the hair from her daughter’s hair brush out on a fence and in the winter collected a nest made of her hair (I can’t remember if it was a blog or a book).

  4. I think it’s taking moments to look at the beauty and wonder of nature that makes life so wonderful. For the little bird that made that nest, life was probably complex and hard if she’d stopped to think about it. But she had to get it done and she did the best she could and now we can all admire her work and it gives us a lift- a bit like you Molly.

  5. Your last posts have been especially touching. Although we do not live in an older home on a lot of land, I can relate to always having to fix something….just when you think you have a free weekend. I’ll have to check out that album. I wasn’t sure if you had posted your parkseed suggestion list somewhere and I missed it….if so, could you tell me where to find it. Thanks for your honest posts….Jamie

  6. Amazing and beautiful…

    I read yesterday’s post today and want to say you’re a wise woman! So true, even with living in a suburb (except maybe the livestock!) that it’s never simple. Never. I’m glad you wrote that because it helps to reevaluate expectations.

  7. Kip was staring at the pictures of the nest. So amazing.And we all like the new album- it’s on repeat for the day.Glad you’re feeling better.

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