Tag: gratitude

• Cattails and Reconciliation

  It says on the Canadian Flower Delivery website that: When you hand someone a cattail, it symbolizes peace and it will give the recipient well wishes of prosperity. If you have someone that you are fighting with or someone that you want to show that you truly appreciate, give them a cattail and let it…

  susannasays

  January 14, 2023

  mindfulness

  cattails, gratitude, Musings, reconciliation, wetlands

• A muse at day’s ending toward a new year

  In response to a blog post from Jane Davies (https://janedavies-collagejourneys.blogspot.com/2022/12/committing-to-play.html?fbclid=IwAR08TZhbc-mTGUCYBX0159bVh5PGEq7VkxyFEwwGpkLnj0ScDE5ROHf1czQ) an artist whose style I admire and whose teaching style fits my learning style, someone who I don’t even know posted this: I’ve only shared a small portion of what this person “said”, but I am sharing what spoke most loudly and clearly to me.…

  susannasays

  December 30, 2022

  art, BLOG, BLOG, creativity, equanimity, expressive art, expressive writing, journaling, mindfulness, resilience, rising above, thinking out loud, truth telling

  #Leafology, gratitude, Musings, Winter

• Crow Lessons in poem form

  Crow Lessons susanna suchak Clickety, clack, talking back Crow sits, watches intently I sit, We—Sharing secrets he— Resting in old tree Me—Sipping cuppa tea Lone souls he and me Still, we’re Good company.

  susannasays

  July 22, 2015

  #Leafology, balance, contentment, equanimity, gratitude, learning as lifestyle, paying attention, poetry

  #Leafology, crow, gratitude, poetry

• Crow Lessons

  Early last spring a messenger came to me. He perched in the ancient oak tree outside my studio and peered into the window inquisitively. Crows are very curious. Image found here: http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/American_Crow/id All the while I was sitting there tippy tapping on my keyboard, this crow watched me, tilting his head this way and that…

  susannasays

  July 21, 2015

  balance, compassion, connection, contentment, equanimity, gratitude, learning as lifestyle, mindfulness, paying attention, slowing down

  communication, connection, crow, gratitude, inelligence, language, lessons, magic, namaste, observation, paying attention, secrets, talking