the planet needs...

Lake Crescent, Olympic National Park in Washington state USA

"The plain fact is that the planet does not need more successful people.  But it does desperately need more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers of every kind.  It needs people who live well in their places.  It needs people of moral courage willing to join the fight to make the world habitable and humane.  And these qualities have little to do with success as we have defined it."
~David W. Orr (Ecological Literacy:  Educating Our Children 

photo by me © 2015   all rights reserved

Birth

The bud is on the bough again,

The leaf is on the tree.

~Charles Jeffreys, 1807-1865, The Meeting of Spring and Summer

Spring, when from the Earth, life bursts forth anew, calls to mind other births I have witnessed.  I remember as a young child, watching, enthralled, as my neighbor's collie gave birth to her puppies.  Later I watched my cats have kittens.  This always seemed such a miracle--new young lives, soft and fluffy, emerging from within an already existing being.

Much later, I witnessed the birth of a friend's child.   And there were my own two children, if witnessing is what you can call what I did.

Being pregnant with my firstborn, a son, was an amazing experience as I felt the life within me stir.  The time of his birth remains a special number to us. 

My daughter was born at home with 2 midwives, an experience over which we still marvel.

This post is for the etsybloggers' street team carnival which asks us to tell of a memorable birthday.  This carnival will be posted on Monday, April 26 on Joey and Aleethea's blog.

Happy Birthday, Sandra!

photo by me © 2009