Guiding Purpose Of Lightning Bugs: ImproVerse Haiku
don’t guide anyone, but then/
learned their real purpose.
Trees, wildflowers, birds,/ bugs, fields. The land teaches me / much. I want to share.
This random pumpkin showed up in our yard and taught me about compensating blessings and how sowing and reaping can come in unexpected ways. I don’t recall ever tossing any pumpkin out in our front yard. It isn’t a composting area, and we’ve never even planted pumpkin that I know of. Perhaps Dave dropped a…
The Northwest Georgia summer is hot. That doesn’t surprise me. I expected the weight of heat like an oven. What shocks my mind, not my system, is that August on the banks of the West Chickamauga is not as uncomfortable as I remember Wisconsin being. Mid-August growing up in Milwaukee when it was 99 +…
Recently, I relaxed in the water rapids and deep pools of the #WestChickamaugaCreek near my home in Northwest Georgia. It was a typical hot, muggy, sunny Georgia noon, and the cool water called my name. As I floated, wandered and sat in the creek — sometimes only inches deep, sometimes over my head — I…
Natural yards for the birds, bees and butterflies — and for the pleasure they brings human senses — are nothing new. I personally have created my own natural yard for decades, as has my brother. Where did that inspiration come from? Our forest ranger father, who taught all my siblings that lawns were silly, foolish,…
Two days after going away and then returning from a week-long trip to the Enchanted Isle that is Puerto Rico, I finally went out walking my few acres of property. Guess what? I kept finding new paths, new bits of nature I hadn’t experienced before. I discovered small plants, large trees with small budding spring…