This week's inspiration comes from The Curious Nature Guide by Clare Walker Leslie where she encourages us to take a night walk. "Let your eyes and mind adjust to being out after dark. How do the smells, sounds, and colors of night differ from those of daytime? Which of your senses feel most alive?"
I hope you take some time this week to take a night walk and spend some time with the night sky.
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When my children were younger, we would always try to be the one to see the first firefly of the season. Now that they are adults, I still text them when I see my first one. This past week, I was sitting on my back porch, and it was dark. Although I have seen a few fireflies, they have not been in abundance yet.
I looked over in the line of white pines, and the fireflies were putting on an early show. There were only a few, but they were dancing with partners and entertaining me with their lights. I wrote a cherita, a poem consisting of a one-line stanza followed by a two and three lined stanza and also tells a story.
Fireflies
waltzing with their partners
between the white pines,
perform against
the dark curtain of nighttime
in three-quarter time.
I love your firefly tradition. So sweet. With school until the end of June, I am taking a little break this month. But I would love to connect in July! Thank you for sharing at SOS.
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