6:54 am. Weather app says 33° F. There’s no damn way it’s 33°. I shiver.
And, I walk.
1,347 consecutive (almost) days at Cove Island Park. Like in a row.
Our Swan family sleeps peacefully out in open water, a rare sight. The youngster is now fully grown, making it difficult to sort out who’s who.
I stand watching them, the pulse slows, this calm in the shadow of bombs dropping in Kyiv, in Gaza and in Yemen. And the warming planet offering a respite for the swans who don’t need to migrate south to find unfrozen bodies of water.
Non sequitur. Up and in flashes a segment of a CBS Sunday Morning interview with Jelly Roll, not the donut kind, but the rapper and singer. It’s a worthy segment, I urge you all to watch.
Jelly says “I have a very dark hallway between my ears.”
I look out at the swans.
Peace. And War.
War & Peace.
Notes:
Beautiful photos!
love this post!!
Grabbing those moments as one clings to a life raft…grateful for the lifeline – it reminds us of our humanity…Always happy to see George and Gracie and Junior…
Agree with ALL!
My mind has tremendous difficulty grasping the parallel worlds to the simple world I live in.
You aren’t alone.
I don’t know how familiar you are with Jelly Roll but he is a very impressive artist. He was largely “discovered” and “launched” with help from Brent Smith and Shinedown. Smith came across a Youtube video of Jelly Roll singing Save Me (I want to say during Covid but I could be off on that detail) and was so moved he sought him out. The rest, as they say, is history. We saw Jelly Roll open for Shinedown in the fall of 2022. His demons are real, even live, but the depth of who he is, his obvious appreciation for his place at this time and the rawness of the stories he tells through music almost physically embrace the audience. It’s something special…
I kind of like the ways of your brain‘s windings but I battle often enough with the riot of my own thoughts…. It‘s a harsh world up and in my 5 grey cells!
Riot of my own thoughts. Love that!!!!
I think this is my favourite of your swan family photos. Just beautiful.
Also: War and Peace is my favourite book. Lots of favourites today 🙂
Yes. Keep’em coming!
Being present helps us through the madness in this world.💐
That it does. In the present second….
i think these moments offer us hope in the midst of such chaos
They sure do
We experience/create where we put our attention. I don’t watch ‘the news,’ as it’s spoon fed by a corrupt media. I would watch the swans, if swans were here to watch! Instead it’s the elk, and trying to decipher whose footprints are in the snow 😉
Elk footprints in snow would be amazing Bela!!!!
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