April's Musings

Thursday, July 21, 2005
“Whole-i-ness”


I went out into my garden this morning. The dew was still on the ground and after many hot days, the air felt fresh and thriving.

I took a little peak around to check on some favorite things. My recently planted portrait hibiscus had opened its shining white face and tipped its extravagant and fragile beauty to the day. Really the atmosphere was uncanny, there was the underlying hum of nature's industry that was contributing to my morning buzz. I looked over - concentrated movement in the rugosa roses as a determined bumble bee negotiated each and every stamen for its fruit.

I looked further, more bees, more underlying action, some as tiny as a speck, lifting their body parts in supreme coordination, performing in miniature the actions that make their morning breakfast. There was the rasp of the blue jay, the clack of the grackle, the pic and squeak of the downy woodpecker, in the trees there was a great whining stir as some creature crossed the boundaries of another. The downy moved his black and white patterned body up my aging apple tree, the cardinals were sitting quietly waiting for the noise to stop.

The eeriness, the underlying buzz, I have decided it is a "whole-i-ness" and full of magic. Lucky me, I awoke early this morning, on Nature's birthday. What a buzz.