Nancy D. Bishop
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Be Wild and Bloom!
Just before black-fly season arrives in May, I like to wander into the woods to see the early spring wildflowers rnpoke their heads up from the forest floor. Some of my favorites are the pitcher plant and Dutchman's-breeches. If you look closely at the pitcher plant you can actually see the shape of a "pitcher." Its flared, mouth-like opening is a perfect receptacle for some unsuspecting insect;the next meal for this carnivorous plant. The delicate flowers that droop from an
May 20, 2011
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Trust Your Timing and Let Spring Find You.
rn"Only with winter-patience can we bring the deep-desired,long-awaited spring." Anne Morrow Lindbergh Living in four seasons keeps us accustomed to change. Just as we get use to living in one season, another one soon follows. We can never get too comfortable. Maybe that is why we are referred to, in this part of the world, as "rugged" New Englanders. Another test of our endurance is the transition into spring. Natives refer to this time of year as mud season. It begins as so
March 13, 2011
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Gifts in Disguise
If you knew today that you wouldn't get exactly what you wanted but that something even better was trying to make its way to you, would you step aside and open the door to invite nit in? Or, are you standing at the peep-hole of life's doorway, waiting to see what shows up before you risk opening the door? nnIf you weren't resisting, where would life be taking you? Sometimes we are looking for things to show up that matches the perfect pictures we have in our mind. We miss the
August 14, 2008
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Are You Listening?
To celebrate May Day, I knelt down in a field of daffodils and was kissed by the morning dew. It was so quiet except for the bees humming and the occasional bird song. nnIt reminded me that we all need to find or create our own sacred spaces; havens and respites from the endlessly noisy and complicated times we are living in. Places of retreat where there are no cell phones ringing, music playing, and people talking. Where the rush of traffic is replaced by the soothing sound
May 3, 2006
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Keep Hope Alive!
"Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without the words, And never stops at all.." ~ Emily DickinsonnnnThere is a bittersweet quality that permeates the air in September. In the northern hemisphere, we say our reluctant goodbyes to summer. When September rolls around there is something in our early programming that kicks in. We gear up for all of the activities associated with fall. Kids return to school and we all begin to pick up the
September 9, 2005
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Harvest Your Sweetest Dreams This Spring.
The sweet smell of Spring is in the air. Breathe deeply.n nThe days are getting longer now and the sun sits higher in the sky. The sugar maples stretch after a long cold winter. Soon their sweet sap will run and the fires will be lit at maple sugarhouses for all night boiling vigils. The fires must be continually stoked, babied and carefully tended. Dreams are cooking. You can see the evidence as white smoke billows out from the rooftops of maple sugarhouses and sweet steam r
March 6, 2005
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What Are You Telling Yourself?
"If you cannot be a poet, be the poem."~ David CarradinennAutumn in New England is a sensual experience. Wood-smokenfires fill the night sky with ghostly images. The air is scented with ready-to-pick apples and burning oak from hearth fires. Maple trees don their cloaks of red, orange and yellow for one last brilliant display of color. The honking of geese overhead signals that another season has passed. And, in the midst of all this beauty and decay, lie the seeds for next S
October 22, 2003
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