the neverending story

The kids and I just finished watching the magic of The NeverEnding Story.

"In the beginning, it's always dark."

the kingfisher's wing

.... After the kingfisher’s wing
Has answered light to light, and is silent, the light is still
At the still point of the turning world.

- T.S. Eliot, "Burnt Norton"

the kittens would hide

The kittens would hide behind the bales of hay in the front room of the cowshed. The sunshine through the dusty windows to the south caught the hay dust dancing slowly in the still air of the shed. I think the cows were gone by then. I was still very young. The shed and the kittens have been gone now for thirty years.

wand flowers

This summer has been the summer of wand flowers and bumblebees. Salimatou planted wand flowers outside our kitchen window. The bumblebees and the slightest breeze have the pink and white flowers dancing from dawn to dusk.