Dragonflies and Kingfishers: Summer times

Tuesday, June 5, 2012

Sisters: Maria, Vicki and I at Ria's college graduation!

some more of the sisters: Abbi, Lydia, Emili, Becki and I

Roadtrip with a few friends: Becki, Jordan, Maria, me, Tali, an insanely late McDonald's ice cream stop during an insanely hilarious drive.

Jordan and I at my parents' place for Maria's grad party

Maria and her graduation present!

One of my little garden patches

Hiking on Moscow Mountain: Maria and the evening view

Hiking on Moscow Mountain: resting after some climbing and exploring

Hiking: me, Wilson, Maria, Tali

Sunday lunch with my sisters: roasted asparagus, mango, fried pork, iced tea

inspiration

As Kingfishers Catch Fire

by Gerard Manley Hopkins

As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame;

As tumbled over rim in roundy wells

Stones ring; like each tucked string tells, each hung bell's

Bow swung finds tongue to fling out broad its name;

Each mortal thing does one thing and the same:

Deals out that being indoors each one dwells;

Selves - goes itself; myself it speaks and spells,

Crying What I do is me: for that I came.

I say more: the just man justices;

Keeps grace: that keeps all his goings graces;

Acts in God's eye what in God's eye he is -

Christ - for Christ plays in ten thousand places,

Lovely in limbs, and lovely in eyes not his

To the father through the features of men's faces.

Dragonflies and Kingfishers