dog behaviour, human behaviour, poetry
Soft spirit,
Wild
Struggling to make sense
Of his world
He chases, dives,
Leaps and growls
Pinning his fears to the ground,
Growing braver, every day.
He looks at me,
A fierce love
Loyal and brave
My mini-Mal
Rare and beautiful
Black Diamond.
This little creature has been nibbling the flowers of a mustard plant. It’s been a challenge, trying to get an in focus picture of him. He’s very quick.
He takes each little flower in his beak and spits out the tiny petals. I can only assume that leaves him with something much more nutritious. The embryonic seed, perhaps?
Sami, in snow.
I don’t feed the birds.
Instead, I do my utmost to plant and preserve the native plants of the land.
Today, in the middle of a little cold snap, I was rewarded with the sight of a robin feeding on the wrinkled fruits that hang on my Pacific Crabapple tree.
I am not sure if robins ‘cache’ their food for the future, but I’d like to imagine that this robin made a mental note last summer to come back to this tree waiting with its preserved bounty.
Last summer, when his world was a’brim with choices.
Today, is Ruby’s birthday. And I’m grateful for her.
The best thing about the year commonly known as 2021, is that it’s not 2020.
Unlike the year 2020, we’ve no plans, no big commitments, nada.
Why is that the best thing about this new year?
Well, clearly. We have no expectations. And no where to go, but up.
My Kaylah. Never forgotten. Always loved.
Dave Borlace highlighted some current data from IRENA, International Renewable Energy Agency, tracking the renewable power generation costs from the last decade. The costs continue to drop steadily.
We decided to install solar panels in the summer of 2017 and I’m so grateful we did. They’ve been humming along, quietly producing electricity for us (and our neighbours when we create more than we need) for nearly three years.
A friend asked me a couple of weeks ago, if I needed to do any maintenance on them, and if they had caused me any difficulty in repairs or other maintenance. No. I wouldn’t even notice I had them, except that I love to look at them.
Thanks to Viridian Energy Cooperative, for their excellent guidance and installation work.
I enjoy Dave Borlace’s youtube channel.
Here’s a bit from his ‘what’s it about’ section.
“The channel is not a debating forum about whether Human Induced Climate Change is a real phenomenon or not. If that’s what you’re after then I can highly recommend chat forums on Social Media, where people on both sides of the argument go round and round in circles achieving precisely nothing at all.”
He’s done a short analysis of Gibb’s and Moore’s recent “Planet of the Humans” that I think is thoughtful and I learned more than a few things.
I have long accepted the truism that human overpopulation is a big part of our planetary problems, but he effectively shifted my thinking.
You can choose to support his work on Patreon, if you find him informative. I do.
Ruby and Sami playing tag today.
Let me rest my eyes
On something beautiful
My dog, sleeping.
A tulip green budded,
Tight lipped against the still cool morning
Sunlight
slipping between the trees like a
guilty teenager,
Touching crevices of bark,
Lifting them out of the shadows,
Awake
Let me fill my mind with
Love,
weathered fingers reaching out for mine,
Tendersharp sparks
that drift and fall back into the
night
Let me rest my soul
Upon the soft sea
lifting and rising,
Dipping
My small boat
We float and gaze at
white fluttering sails
Take me back.
Let me rest my eyes,
On something beautiful.
Sunlit tree bark
Pressed green cedar lace
Oyster pink blossoms, curving
around bees’ bottoms
Brown eyes soft, loosening
Once guarded secrets,
His mouth,
brimful of humour
The world is new again
And small.
I like it.
