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What’s your Valentine’s Day wish? I’m wishing on Love… a higher, wider sense of Love… to be our guide…for People…for Planet…for Peace.
Photo: (C)2024 ElizaBeth Coira. Simple, miraculous wild daisies, smiling to the sun, remind us that Love is all around.
Happy Fall Y’all! I hope you’ll enjoy one of my favorite Fall poems (from my forthcoming book), celebrating the beauty of change, and honoring the sacred mystery of the season. As I explore a big change in this season of my life, moving back to Texas to be near family, I find comfort and inspiration in the great goldening landscape of my present home in eastern Washington. As I meditate on questions like “What is Home?” and “Where is Home?”, I think about the people and places that have a special way of reverberating through the depths of my soul. Cheers to the grand sojourn of life! And thank you to those of you shining from the golden goodness and truth of You…through a higher, wider sense of Love.
Photo: (C) 2019 ElizaBeth Coira. A fall hike into the Enchantments, near Leavenworth, Washington, USA.
Today is my birthday. I am profoundly thankful for the kind messages of genuine friendship from around our beautiful planet. I am profoundly thankful for the gentle and sustaining rains here around my home in eastern Washington (USA), soothing and healing the landscape in the aftermath of area wildfires, though some are still burning. I am profoundly thankful for the gifts of my people, the exquisite Love I am privileged to witness and experience, receive and share, feel and know. And I am profoundly thankful for each and every one of you out there, doing what you can, being from the brilliant truth of who you are, getting through each day…and in the often-wearying process still trying to bring about some kind of goodness in this world, some kind of light, in ways big and small.
Today, on this day gifted with healing rains and bright friendships, I share with you my favorite prayer-poem and hope for humanity…paired with a photo of one of my favorite places to hike, the Isle of Skye, in a land of some of my ancestors, Scotland. Cheers to the curious sojourn of life! And please don’t forget, we need all of you…this planet…humanity…we need you…in it for the Good…this lifetime around.
Photo: (C)2019 ElizaBeth Coira. Where the river meets the sea, wandering the Camasunary Coast on the Isle of Skye, Scotland.
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In this season of climate catastrophe…and overwhelming loss and sorrow…how can we find better, more sustainable ways of being…in balance and harmony with all of creation? My heart goes out to all of those suffering, scarred, and lost in this season of extraordinary trauma. My heart tells me we will and must find those better ways…sooner…together.
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Have you ever noticed the word FLOW in FLOWers? Isn’t it an incredible feeling to be in the unique flow of You? The bright flowering of your specially-gifted soul?
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As we prepare to say farewell to our beloved home in eastern Washington, I’d like to dedicate this poem to not only the ecosystem of Loon Lake (pictured) that has nurtured my life in so many ways… but also to the people I’ve met out here along the way that are living, breathing, being the light everyday, in ways big and small. It’s not always easy to say yes, to step up, to honor, defend, protect, and promote the Greater Good. You all know who you are. And I’m thankful our paths have crossed this lifetime around.
Photo: (C)2023 ElizaBeth Coira. Enjoying the beauty of sunset and mystery of the mist rolling through the forested hills ’round Loon Lake.
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(C)2023 ElizaBeth Coira. Wandering the coastline of Ireland, gathering seashells, beckoned by the call of the sea.
Autumn Blessings
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ElizaBeth Coira - The Home Grown Sojourner 