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Friday, July 19, 2024

Little Story

In the middle of preparing dinner a few nights ago, I noticed a storm was rolling in. 

I went outside and inhaled deeply. It was a moment of lovely rejuvenation! 

 

Just as I glanced up in the middle of a tension-shedding stretch, my eyes spotted and followed the resident osprey. During many sunsets, I’ve seen her tearing at her dinner high up on a particular naked limb she loves in the Douglas fir just across the road.

 

...And as I followed the flight path of the osprey, she flew right through a rainbow!

 

Gentle awareness is what offered the gift of the rainbow as well as the rain-scent.

 

I saw her again last evening: Osprey, loosing from her talons bits of her full-fish meal. 

 

She reminds me to pay attention, to be softly open. She whispers the secret: I will lead you to beauty.

 

(Orig. posted in July 2016.)