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February 28, 2014

Time and Tide






Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky. 

 ~ from Stray Birds by Rabindranath Tagore



This post links to Weekend Reflections, hosted by James.
and Skywatch Friday, hosted by Yogi, Sylvia, and Sandy.


February 21, 2014

Like Father, Like Son



It would be good to give much thought, before
you try to find words for something so lost,
for those long childhood afternoons you knew
that vanished so completely – and why?




We’e still reminded – sometimes by a rain,
but we can no longer say what it means;
life was never again so filled with meeting,
with reunion and with passing on




as back then, when nothing happened to us
except what happens to things and creatures:
we lived their world as something human,
and became filled to the brim with figures.




And became as lonely as a shepherd
and as overburdened by vast distances,
and summoned and stirred as from far away,
and slowly, like a long new thread,
introduced into that picture sequence
where now having to go on bewilders us.

 ~ Rainer Maria Rilke



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February 17, 2014

San Buenaventura Mission















The San Buenaventura Mission was founded March 31, 1782 by Father Junípero Serra, a Spanish Franciscan friar, on land originally inhabited by the coastal Chumash Native Americans in their village of Mitsquanaqa’n. Although land was promised to the 500 displaced inhabitants, very little was allocated, and the few parcels finally “given” in the 1840s were soon lost. Many Chumash found work on local ranches, but diseases further ravaged their population. The lot of the Chumash continued to deteriorate with the arrival of the Anglo-Americans in 1847. In 1855 a small piece of land 60 miles inland and to the north near the Santa Ynez mission was “set aside” for the last remaining only 109 coastal Chumash survivors.


February 7, 2014

Winter’s Flame













To see radiant reflections by other bloggers, visit Weekend Reflections, hosted by James.
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