Journaling, or what I also call notebooking, has become a regular part of my life. I have been trying different ways to journal in different kinds of journals. At a Time to Write session with my Teach Write group, I was introduced to The Curious Nature Guide by Clare Walker Leslie.
What a gorgeous book! The book is full of invitations to lead you out into the natural world and to write about your experiences. The first pages suggest leaving the book "by your window to remind you to look outside." She further states that sometimes we find that in learning about the natural world, we learn more about ourselves. I am finding this to be true.
Saturday, I used the first prompt to "begin where you are" and look around and see what nature is doing. Today I found her yawning and stretching and showing off her signs of spring and captured this moment in an etheree poem.
Signs
of spring,
beckoning
me to take note,
as the day lengthens
and life emerges from
its dormant state of mind, I
see her yawning and stretching as
of spring,
beckoning
me to take note,
as the day lengthens
and life emerges from
its dormant state of mind, I
see her yawning and stretching as
I find hope and new beginnings in
the red buds and lilies and magnolias.
the red buds and lilies and magnolias.
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