Friday with Starry Meadows 6.19.2020

 "One touch of nature makes the whole world kin."

                ~ William Shakespeare


We are enjoying watching a pair of Red-headed Woodpeckers fill their beaks with suet and fly to Meditation Path woods to feed their chicks. The nest is inside a hole in a dead tree. We watch the bird family as we walk the path and pray for our own families with their various concerns, hold all we love in our hearts, pray for the country and the world. Parents all over the world care for their families - no matter the nationality, race, religion, hair, fur, skin, or feather. We all need nutritious food, clean water and air, shelter and a safe place to nest on this earth.

Photo: Red-headed Woodpecker parent at our feeder

#natureiskin #birds #redheadedwoodpecker #sacred

Mt Laurel

Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are. 
           
            ~Gretel Ehrlick

 Goatsbeard blooming in the Meditation Path at Starry Meadows

“Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.” 

                                                                                                         -Anne Frank

"Every creature is a glittering, glistening mirror of Divinity.”
~ Hildegard of Bingen
I loved studying Hildegard of Bingen, mystic, writer, composer, prophet, and saint. Her music is performed today and her spiritual works are read as examples of a feminine interpretation of church and spiritual ideas. Her numerous writings included the lives of saints; two treatises on medicine and natural history, reflecting the quality of scientific observation rare at that period. What a woman!

Photo: White-tailed deer fawn hiding in the grasses along the Meditation Path at Starry Meadows. Photo by Jay Landis.

#natureiskin #sainthildegard #earthourhome #fawn #spiritualecology #ecospirituality #sacred

What gives me hope is that life unfailingly responds to the advances of love. ~Nipun Mehta

#sacred #humanity #natureiskin #mrrogers #earthisourhome