Jelly Roll brought legit Church to Washington-Grizzly Stadium tonite, unapoligetically honouring Jesus right where he'a at, speaking Truth in love to Missoula, Montana. May his songs and words of Life filter for miles through canyons and streets, as so often happens on a hot summer night.
of things long ago
are my mother's
-cj hull
Grateful thanks on this Mother's Day to all the story sharers and history keepers who enrich our roots with context.
(Hmmm...could we say stories are the compost that grow strong foundational roots, anchoring us to the past so we can grow freely up and out into our unique future? More coffee needed to ponder any deeper - deeper like roots , haha!)
(& thanks to the folks a few blocks over for sharing with the neighbourhood their patch of lovely, mesmerizing pasque flowers on the sidewalk side of their fence!)
A flutter of sparrows, gaggle of geese, conspiracy of ravens, obstinancy of bison, parliament of owls, sleuth of bears.... so many poetic descriptors for gathered feathered and furred creatures! On the floral side, perhaps can designate a 'riot of apple blossoms'?
"Faithfulness springs forth from the earth, and righteousness looks down from heaven.
The Lord will indeed give what is good, and our land will yield its harvest." - Psalm 85:11,12
(BTW, cosmos seed starts were especially gratifying, startlingly sprouting above the soil in 24 hours!)
"And even though I no longer really knew what it was, I felt it: a drop of hope. The fog surrounding my life rolled back another inch, and a sliver of blue sky peeked through." -When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi, p.135
"And so there we all were on a little wave of time lifting up to eternity, and none of us ever in time would know what to make of it. How could we? It is a mystery, for we are eternal beings living in time." -Wendell Berry, from Jayber Crow, p. 205
"The day can't be more beautiful. The skies are blue all the way to the heavens...And the bracingly cold air reminds me with each new breath of my continuing existence as a living creature on this planet. "
-Dead By Dawn, A Mike Bowditch novel by Paul Doiron, p. 405, Lg type
"...Put your faith in the two inches of humus
that will build under the trees
every thousand years...
Practice resurrection."
- from Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front by Wendell Berry
“Neither snow, nor rain... nor gloom of night..." -Herodotus (500 BC).
True fans braved slushy skies to cheer the University of Montana Griz to yesterday's FCS Playoff Round 2 win, leading to Round 3 in Washington-Grizzly Stadium!
First snow down in Missoula town yesterday - already melted for a sunny US Thanksgiving! Wishing you many grateful remembrances on this day of thanks.
Crisp fall views on a sunny University game day - life is just better in Montana.
" 'You're not worried?'
'Worry's for people who think blowing on the dice will change their luck.' "
-Mike & Charley in One Last Lie, A Mike Bowditch novel by Paul Doiron, p.412 Lg type
Meandering through Missoula's Rocky Mountain Gardens, this small yellow dahlia captured my atention - each petal a perfect tiny scroll, Fibonacci swirled for our delight. (blossoms approx 1.5 inches) Seems the wee bug is a bigger fan, hanging out unfazed through my intrusive camera hovering!
"Grace is not opposed to effort, it is opposed to earning. Earning is an attitude. Effort is an action."
-—Dallas Willard (1935-2013), Hearing God: Developing a Conversational Relationship with God (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity, 1984, 1993, 1999), 194.
