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The Leaf Devoured

Water droplets magnify

the verdant veins

through which

the life giving blood flows

through which

the life giving source

that keeps

giving life

keeps

life going

despite the wear and tear

of an alien attack

by a catapulting caterpiller

that offers another creature

a world within world

in which to live.

Despite

bitten tears,

bitter tears,

the leaf will live green

through the summer

and then shrivel to crimson,

life blood draining

and it will cry no more

as it drops dead

from the branch

where it lived

for a few short months.

Posted by stockdalewolfe | June 15, 2013 | Categories: Nature Photography, Poetry | Tags: Allegory for our lives, analogies, essential oils of a plant, Hole in the leaf, Leaf, Leaves, life cycle of leaves, loss, Macro Photography, Microcosm, Poetry, Rain, secret dwelling place, summer, Tears, Veins, Water, world withi worlds | 13 Comments

A former New York Times columnist and bestselling New York Times author, Andrew Solomon, gives a very moving account of how parental love surpasses all manner of diversity in their children. The first few minutes are scary as he quotes an article from Time Magazine from the 60s. Don’t let that throw you off the beautiful message of acceptance of handicaps and the contribution of those children who are different from a man who is himself a minority and different.

Posted by stockdalewolfe | June 12, 2013 | Categories: Asperger's & Autism, Uncategorized, Videos | Tags: Acceptance, Autism, Children, Children who are different, Diversity, Downs Syndrome, Dwarfism, Handicaps, Homosexuality, Love, Mental Handicaps, Parental love, Parents, Physical Handicaps | 1 Comment

Heresay Hear Today

sin

ation

over

what

Katy

did

didn’t

Dahlia

here

say

prattle

goss

ping

blooms

filled

with

Posted by stockdalewolfe | June 11, 2013 | Categories: Flowers, Humor, Macro Photography, Nature Columns, Nature Photography, Poetry | Tags: Dahlias, Envy, Flowers, Gossip, Humor, Insects, Katydids, Nature photography, Poetry | 10 Comments

Dropping Dead

Jack Kornfield reads a poem on the finiteness of life while talking about meditation practice (3:26 min.)

Posted by stockdalewolfe | June 11, 2013 | Categories: Meditations, Videos | Tags: Buddhism, Death, Finiteness of Life, Jack Kornfield, Meditation, Mindfulness, Mystery of Life, Reincarnation, Spirituality, Touching people | 8 Comments

To Light a Fire

Posted by stockdalewolfe | June 9, 2013 | Categories: Uncategorized | 3 Comments

Oh Dying Lily

Oh, Lily

in the valley

of despair,

the devil’s lair,

thou seemeth to be shy

with your glossy, glassy tears.

One day we all must die

and we all have fulsome fears

of dying.

It is not

for lack of trying

your life to live;

it is not from sins of lying

or reluctance to give.

You lived your life purely,

always kneeling demurely,

and though your petals turn to crepe

your form still has a humble drape,

still praising He who made you

in your last living days

and inspiring us to follow suit

in your reverent ways.

Posted by stockdalewolfe | June 8, 2013 | Categories: Flowers, Macro Photography, Nature Photography, Poetry | Tags: Anxiety, Death, Despair, Fear, Fear of Death, Flowers, Humility, Lily of the Valley, Spirituality | 21 Comments

“Living with Fear”

For whatever reason these days are days of high anxiety for me, nervousness to the point of tears. Meditations are “noisy” with all thoughts and negative ones in particular. To deal with this I share with you a helpful 9:06 minute webcast on fear and love with Jack Kornfield and Catherine Ingram.