New Picture Explanation

I wish I could figure out how to fit the picture in perfectly to the heading of my blog but I cannot. Thus you see the giant image above. Which is appropriate in one way- that oak tree is a huge mother of a tree. She is amazing. She gives me peace, joy, and calms my soul. And in the morning when the sun is breaking through her limbs and shining its light on me, I am stunned into amazement that this, THIS, is where I live.

Mr. Moon can't wait for the day we build a house on our lot down by the Apalachicola Bay in the sweet little town of Apalachicola. And in some ways, I am excited about that prospect as well. It has always been a dream of mine to live by the water. And a bay is so full of life. It has tides that rise and lick the dock and tides that lower and leave the secret life of the bay's bottom revealed. There are birds and there are fish and there are the shadows of clouds on the water as the weather changes, which it will do quite regularly and quickly on the coast.

But right now, for this part of my life, I am so happy here, to be inland, to have my own oak island of serenity in Lloyd with these giant trees standing guard, lifting their arms towards heaven with my chickens in the backyard, my garden in the side yard, my house in the middle yard, my heart in the midst of it all.

So there you go- my new heading.

I see my light come shining. For me it usually comes from the East down to the West. But that didn't make Mr. Dylan's rhyme come out right and that's okay.

And any day now- tomorrow or in thirty years, I shall be released. We all shall be.

But until then, here I am. Plowing the seas of this life, in this place, with these people, in this time, and I am so blessed to be.

Who knows? Tomorrow I may get up, look at the blog and say, "Yeah. No."

And change it.

But for tonight, at least, here it is.

And I hope that you, too, have something bigger than yourself to make you look up to heaven and see the light. And when I say "light" I am not talking about one damn thing but...light.
Which is heavenly and which is en-lightening and which, when mixed with love is all I need.

Amen and get some sleep.