Garden meditations today:

Our garden this week was also a sound studio and photo set, and space of blooming. I realize I am peculiar for doing sound recordings and photo shoots in my garden, but alas it helps me listen, and keep my life integrated!

i think the roses are the real stars this week! We have all the nation’s roses showing off here this spring. These champagne ones are french and maybe my favorites. Plus this little rare bird (a black crowned titmouse) showed up in her branches this week, just on the stoop of my airstream (better photo to follow if it graces us again!).

Very cool bird, a first encounter for me—at first i thought it was a baby cardinal, but is a regional bird with a black mohawk which is only here and in a small swath of northern Mexico. Very cool bird and it swoops and dives with great precision. I could watch it all day! Fun to meet new locals!

Also, this very cool green treasure chest showed up—i love objects like these, ones which make you wonder where they came from, and where they may go…Objects culled from fairy tales—as we all are!

Henri Nouwen spoke of the basic places to meet God: nature, people and places, things. I might rename it, we meet God through gardens, faces and cities and stuff to the degree we are open to that higher symbolic dialogue. We can also meet God through seeing things well. “The way to know God is to love many things deeply.” Van Gogh.

At least, that’s where I tend to encounter the Luminous! “All things point to something which is luminously behind them, and yet, in which they participate as concrete tangible symbols.” Spaces (homes, land, businesses etc) are just “sets” for Love to break in and be met! Life is a stage for formation. In the daily, is the eternal. Enjoying today’s meditations!