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Tag Archives: nature
My New Website Is Up!
Today is the day I’ve been waiting for. I’m moving. Not from my house, but to my new website is at: joanzrough.com. You’ll no longer find me here at the old address. But if you go to the one above you’ll … Continue reading
Posted in Memoir, The Garden, The Journey, Writing
Tagged Feeding the Soul, flowers, Intentions, Moving Forward, nature, plants, Spring, Time
2 Comments
The Music Of The Wild
“There is language going on out there –the language of the wild. Roars, snorts, trumpets, squeals, whoops, and chirps all have meaning derived over eons of expression. We have yet to become fluent in the language — and music — … Continue reading
Posted in Life, Matters of the Spirit, photography, Quotes, Travels
Tagged Africa, Boyd Norton, flowers, Kenya, Language, Masai Mara, Music, nature, Serengeti, Spring
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Painting Spring
Water soaked grey sky pure tones of birch magnolia, forsythia spring green leaves redbud Raindrop music fills the air my paint brush drips with color JZR I made these photographs and wrote this poem back in April of 2008, posting … Continue reading
Posted in Being Creative, Books, Memoir, photography, Poetry, The Garden, The Seasons
Tagged arts, Change, journaling, Moving Forward, nature, new life, Painting, plants, Spring, wonder
4 Comments
The Courage Of A Seed
“In nature, we are quietly offered countless models of how to give ourselves over to what appears dark and hopeless, but which ultimately is an awakening beyond our imagining. All around us, everything small and buried surrenders to a process … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Healing, Kindness, love, Matters of the Spirit, Mental Health, Navigating Through Life, Quotes, The Seasons, Wise Words
Tagged Courage, Feeding the Soul, Mark Nepo, Moving Forward, nature, plants, Reading, Seeding, Spring
13 Comments
What Is The Life I Should Live?
“All through our gliding journey, on this day as on so many others, a little song runs through my mind. I say song because it passes musically, but it is really just words, a thought that is neither strange nor … Continue reading
Posted in Dreams, Life, Matters of the Spirit, photography, Quotes, The Journey, Wise Words
Tagged Feeding the Soul, gifts, Great Blue Heron, Mary Oliver, nature, songs, winter landscape
6 Comments
Power Outage
This past Wednesday when the power went out at 6 AM I started counting my blessings. I had firewood, a fireplace, a gas stove on which I could cook, and hot water. The snow, ten inches in all, was not … Continue reading
Posted in Gratefulness, Navigating Through Life
Tagged Anxiety, Blessings, Guilt, nature, power outage, snow storm, weather, winter landscape
5 Comments
