phalanges

The front yard

The living room

Where I live

Growing

 May Pole Celebration

 The farm

 Building a greenhouse

 On my way to work

Nebulous

CAPE COD

Diminutive

 Every mental event is meaningful, 

caused, and ones own responsibility

Every choice we make contains the energy if either faith or fear, and the outcome of every decision reflects to some extent that faith or fear.  

"We search endlessly for the one grand choice that will put everything in our lives into permanent order, halting the motion of change long enough to establish final control over everyone and everything.  In seeking this one right choice constantly, we give form to our fear of changing the rhythm that is life itself. "

Caroline Myss PH. D.

Habit is a hell to which people cling in an attempt to stop the flow of change.  Creative energy defies repetition of habit.  

I never saw a discontented tree.  They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.  They go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far!  ~John Muir

Euphemism

                                      

one by one

No pain here, no dull empty hours, no fear of the past, no fear of the future. These blessed mountains are so compactly filled with God's beauty, no petty personal hope or experience has room to be. Drinking this champagne water is pure pleasure, so is breathing the living air, and every movement of limbs is pleasure, while the body seems to feel beauty when exposed to it as it feels the campfire or sunshine, entering not by the eyes alone, but equally through all one's flesh like radiant heat, making a passionate ecstatic pleasure glow not explainable.  -John Muir



air:
the mixture of nitrogen, oxygen, argon, carbon dioxide, hydrogen, neon, helium, and other gases that surrounds the earth
atom:
the smallest part of an element
autotroph:
an organism that uses energy to produce the food they need
chlorophyll:
the green pigment of a plant; needed for photosynthesis
compound
a substance made up of two or more elements that are always put together in the same way
element:
a substance that cannot be separated into simpler substances
heterotroph:
an organism that gets energy from the foods they eat
molecule:
atoms joined together
photosynthesis:
the production of carbohydrates from carbon dioxide and water using sunlight as the source of energy with the aid of chlorophyll
pigment:
a substance that makes color in the tissues of organisms



LEONARD COHEN's Suzanne
Suzanne takes you down to her place near the river
You can hear the boats go by
You can spend the night beside her
And you know that she's half crazy
But that's why you want to be there
And she feeds you tea and oranges
That come all the way from China
And just when you mean to tell her
That you have no love to give her
Then she gets you on her wavelength
And she lets the river answer
That you've always been her lover
And you want to travel with her
And you want to travel blind
And you know that she will trust you
For you've touched her perfect body with your mind.

And Jesus was a sailor
When he walked upon the water
And he spent a long time watching
From his lonely wooden tower
And when he knew for certain
Only drowning men could see him
He said "All men will be sailors then
Until the sea shall free them"
But he himself was broken
Long before the sky would open
Forsaken, almost human
He sank beneath your wisdom like a stone
And you want to travel with him
And you want to travel blind
And you think maybe you'll trust him
For he's touched your perfect body with his mind.

Now Suzanne takes your hand
And she leads you to the river
She is wearing rags and feathers
From Salvation Army counters
And the sun pours down like honey
On our lady of the harbour
And she shows you where to look
Among the garbage and the flowers
There are heroes in the seaweed
There are children in the morning
They are leaning out for love
And they will lean that way forever
While Suzanne holds the mirror
And you want to travel with her
And you want to travel blind
And you know that you can trust her
For she's touched your perfect body with her mind


"Present joys are more to flesh and blood than the dull prospect of a distant good."  Jon Dryden 

Notes from the woods

Nocturnal 
Active only at night
Include: mice, owls, bats, skunks, and many arthropods (insects & spiders)
Physical and behavioral adaptations:  bigger eyes, enlarged pupils,  moist noses, dark colors, more distinct vocalizations, and quieter movements
Owls have asymmetrical hearing (one ear is higher than the other).  This allows them to pick up a larger range of frequencies.

Crepuscular
Active only at dusk and dawn
Include: deer and woodcock

Diurnal
Active only in the day
include squirrels, songbirds, and reptiles

Night vision: Upon entering darkness, humans pupils will immediatly expand to let in 10 times more light.  Within 5  minutes, a humans pupils are sensitive to 100 times more light.  Full night vision is reached after 45-60 minutes when our eyes let in one million times more light.  The retina is made of rod and cone cells.   Cone Cells help us see color and detail.  Rod cells give us peripheral vision requiring less light to see shapes and shadows. Rod cells allow us to have night vision.

cape cod national sea shore

During the Laurentide glaciation and for some time after the retreat of the ice away from Cape Cod, worldwide sea level was about 400 feet below its present level.
About 6,000 years ago, before extensive wave erosion of the glacial deposits had occurred, the glacial Cape probably resembled the map as shown on the left. (http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/capecod/sea.html)

Unofficially, it is one of the biggest barrier islands in the world, shielding much of the Massachusetts coastline from North Atlantic storm waves. This protection helps to erode the Cape shoreline at the expense of cliffs, while protecting towns from Fairhaven toMarshfield.

Plankton

Plankton are tiny floating organisms (living things) that are found in both sea, ponds, and lakes.  

The word plankton comes from the greek word meaning "wandering"

Plankton is a general term that includes every marine organism too small and weak to swim for itself

Plankton can be plants or animals. Planktonic plants (known as phytoplankton) create energy by photosynthesis, just like land plants. Planktonic animals (known as zooplankton) feed on phytoplankton (herbiovorous) or on other zooplankton (carnivorous), just like land animals.

The weight of all the plankton in the oceans is greater than that of all the dolphins, fish and whales put together. Though many plankton are microscopic in size!


Some plankton blooms can pose serious health risks for humans and marine wildlife. Fish living in bloom-affected areas eat the poisonous plankton, which is then passed down the food chain to larger fish and eventually to humans. Cultures which consume seafood as a staple part of their diet (eg, Japan) are particularly at risk. In Cape Cod Bay in 1987, toxic plankton in the food chain caused the death of 14 humpback whales. However, only a few dozen of the thousands of phyoplankton species are known to be toxic.


Approximately 40% of photosynthesis on Earth is carried out by planktonic organisms. That means that nearly half of the world’s oxygen is generated by phytoplankton!

coquettish

We all have the power to give ourselves love and caring

As we become more able to accept people as they are, 

we become more able to choose those who are good for us

 and bless and release those who are not.  

It is a spiritual law that what we are meant to know 

will be revealed to us without any effort on our part.  

We are wise to trust the timing and methods regarding such disclosures.  

Your soul has designed this life for you in order for you to learn its lessons.  Be grateful for all those people who have been your teachers.

 It is never too late to heal ourselves and our relationships, even with people who are no longer alive.  People's spirits endure, just as ours do, and respond to our changes of heart.

 People rarely change except through unbearable pain:  

When we relieve another's pain, we often short-circuit that person's motivation to change.  

That is why most of our efforts to solve another's problems actually prolong and perpetuate those problems.

Unfortunately, when we love too much, anothers tolerance for pain is usually greater than our tolerance for watching it.  Instead of trying to fix problems, we need to get out of the way of their consequences.

We receive what we send out- so send out blessings.