blessing

By Jean Cavanaugh|2026-03-26T01:33:47-04:00December 23rd, 2020|Musings|

Sunset at Crossing Hedgerows Sanctuary - photo by Brennah Cavanaugh Beannacht / Blessing On the day when the weight deadens on your shoulders and you stumble, may the clay dance to balance you. And when your eyes freeze behind the grey window and the ghost of loss gets in to you, may a flock of colours, indigo, red, green, and azure blue come to awaken in you a meadow of delight. When the canvas ...

Song of Life

By Jean Cavanaugh|2026-03-26T01:43:11-04:00December 19th, 2020|Flora, Musings|

Oak tree at Crossing Hedgerows Sanctuary. Photo by Brennah Cavanaugh Song of Life by Charles Mackay (1814 - 1889) A traveller on a dusty road Strewed acorns on the lea: And one took root and sprouted up, And grew into a tree. Love sought its shade at evening-time, To breathe its early vows; And Age was pleased, in heights of noon, To bask beneath its boughs. The dormouse loved its dangling twigs, The birds ...