A storm rolled across the lake and into our neighborhood late this afternoon. It was nice to watch the rain roll across the pond in sheets, out back. A little reddish-orange toad got stranded on our front porch and didn’t quite know where to go, in order not to drown.
This morning while doing my 4 laps around the pond, a large red-tailed hawk swooped past me. As he passed just beside me, he let out his high pitched call. I think it was just for me. 🙂 This pond does not have geese or ducks. The life in this pond is large fish and numerous frogs, with toads up in the grass. Mockingbirds occupy the trees, as well as some large hawks at times. People are allowed to fish, but put the fish back in. Some people drive around in the little golf carts and throw DOG FOOD to the fish, feeding them! Al has seen a beaver and a muskrat also.
“Strive then, O My brother, to apprehend this matter, that the veils may be lifted from the face of thy heart and that thou mayest be reckoned among them whom God hath graced with such penetrating vision as to behold the most subtle realities of His dominion, to fathom the mysteries of His kingdom, to perceive the signs of His transcendent Essence in this mortal world, and to attain a station wherein one seeth no distinction amongst His creatures and findeth no flaw in the creation of the heavens and the earth.”
(Baha’u’llah, Gems of Divine Mysteries, p. 11)
I can’t really believe where I live now. It is quite the privileged life.
Tonight I am really tired. I drove 12 hrs yesterday. There has been a lot of stress regarding money over the last month. Tonight, I could not go for a walk w/ my hubby around the pond. I have to listen to my body and know when it is telling me, “Too much, girl, take it easy and slow down.” Right now at 10:15pm, I feel the sore throat coming on, which is what my body does when it is overloaded. So I have to listen.
Doctor Grandma 