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Tag Archives: imagination and nature

20 Nov

Give and Take with animals

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I am daily encouraged and inspired by the  daily talk with my pets. They even say thank you, I believe. Unafraid to make demands they give to me in eye contact, cuddling, licking my hand, pawing gently on my cheek. When they are thirsty they show me by circling the bowl; what fun to watch them focus on the mountain spring water pouring into the bowl.

Under the covers at night; a coil behind my knees, a plaintiff siren in…..

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10 Apr

Your “Mantle of Safety”

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In the Australian outback, the Flying Doctor’s Service historically provided for the needs of desert families far out from Alice Springs.  The doctor who founded the service wanted people to feel “a mantle of safety.” As I sojourned in Australia from Sydney to Alice Springs and to New Zealand by myself the buffer came from nature’s sounds and silences. I was alone in my feelings of not having answers, no realized goals, no highs. Conversations with aboriginals and peoples from…..

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About the Author

Jacqueline K. Kelsey, Ph.D. is an alternative learner and leads others to connect and receive from out-of-the-way people in society. Her greatest teachers are humble people and animals. After a full career of teaching literature and writing in college and high schools, she became a teacher educator at the university level…

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Most Recent Post

  • Harvest at the end of summer

    A list of all the flowers by season, on bushes, ground...

  • Mirror, Mirror on the wall…

    Reaping what you s0w and s0wing what you reap, drawing...

  • Give and Take with animals

    I am daily encouraged and inspired by the  daily talk...

  • 4th of July–What can I buy to look festive?

    I am big on looks.  It motivates me to clean up and...

  • Waiting for God

    I have done my share, given my all.  I have nothing...

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