My playground

Bird moment:
My playground - 
I am deliberate
Sure-footed
I can rule.

Rule with
humility, presence
and purpose.

"I want to be as idle as I can ...."

I want to be as idle as I can, so that my soul may have time to grow.

Elizabeth von Arnim

Bird tale

Bird tale:
Purity,
that's purity,
tell it as it is.

Bird moment

Bird moment:
In the shade
or shadow,
No matter,
Mind still clear.

Bird tale

Bird tale:
Hollowness or
Openness,
Define yours,
Live well.

Live well

"I am too alone ...."

I am too alone in the world, and yet not alone enough

to make every moment holy.

I am too tiny in this world, and not tiny enough

just to lie before you like a thing,

shrewd and secretive.

I want my own will, and I want simply to be with my will,

as it goes toward action;

and in those quiet, sometimes hardly moving times,

when something is coming near,

I want to be with those who know secret things
or else alone ....

Rainer Maria Rilke

Bird tale

Bird tale:
Say it's beauty,
It's beauty,
Beauty, just across
a blurry line.

"Keep growing quietly ...."

Keep growing quietly and seriously throughout your whole development; you cannot disturb it more rudely than by looking outward and expecting from outside replies to questions that only your inmost feeling in your most hushed hour can perhaps answer.

Rainer Maria Rilke