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June 24, 2025

day 173

today’s glimmers…

a turkey hen showing her chick where the feeders are at dawn…

…after breakfast they head to the dust pit for a spa treatment.,,

…learning how it’s done…and mimicking mom to perfection!

a sense of summer

I know the scent and sounds of dawn
its first light’s symphony of song
the earthy scent of dew drenched loam
the sunlit sparkling fields of home

I know the feel of days at noon
sun high and hot in skies of blue
where shadows cast by towering trees
shade earth while dancing in the breeze
 
I love the subtle shifts at dusk
the rising mist that smells of musk 
horizons edge afire en rouge
the setting sun sinks from our view

to sleep, to dream another night
to read, to write by candlelight 
under the twinkling moon and stars 
connecting all, both near and far

my senses swoon in summertime
I’m feeling green and that’s just fine!

~kat

Our landscaper asked us if we wanted him to fill in that exposed area of red clay and dust on the hill in our back yard area. And then he backtracked and said…never mind…I know you guys. It’s true. How could we sod over an area that gives the local turkeys (and us as their witnesses) so much happiness! I felt so fortunate to catch this dust bath ritual on film!

When people ask us how we could move away from the city and the convenience of shopping close by, to the woods, with horrible WiFi, prone to power outages, sitting on a hill with a long, steep, scary driveway…this is why.

All this happens just feet away from my window. I am so happy here. And so happy too to share this little bit of joy with you.

Much love, peace, and glimmers to you!

~kat ✨✨✨💚💚💚✨✨✨

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June 23, 2025

day 172

By Kat Myrman

hot summer

the air is thick and wet
earth barely breathing
beneath clouds that have
fallen from a purple
sky at dusk…I am overcome
by the sweetness of flowers

~kat

We’re having a heat wave. Someone asked me what’s going on with this hot weather? And I replied…global warming? But it depends on who you ask! 😉

But, seriously, it is breathtakingly hot…and not in a good, beautiful way! Here in Virginia we have the added impact of humidity. This clammy combination makes for oppressive heat. When I took a photo of my front yard this evening, you could see the moisture hanging in the air. Everything is a bit muted and cloudy.

As much as I loathe conversations that devolve into an appraisal of the weather, here we are … or rather here I am boring you with the weather! There is certainly no glimmer to be found in a heatwave, but I do appreciate those of you still reading.

I knew magnetic poetry would serve this topic well! The glimmer, if you can call it that, is the reflection tool in PicsArt that helped me express this sticky wet sensation of humidity in Virginia in swampy picture form. The photo backdrop above is not real. The actual unaltered view is below. The magic of photo editing is amazing don’t you think?

This is the actual photo of my front yard…

I know the world is downright wacky right now. Sometimes creating my own glimmers are all I can do to preserve my sanity (though some might say I lost that long ago! 🤣)

Exercising my creative side gives me such joy, I consider it glimmer worthy! But if you’re not buying it, there is always Mr. Bean. He’s 100 % glimmer!

I’m rambling…let me just say much love, peace, and glimmers to you, wherever you can find them…and call it a day.

~kat ✨✨✨💚💚💚✨✨✨

(Magnetic Poetry – Nature Kit)

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June 22, 2025

day 171 – drama in the foothills

By Kat Myrman

I need a ReVerse…can we have a do-over?!

in the deep, I am forever
(as) the dust settles 
a gentle prodding
you cannot wish our souls away
wrapped in grace and trust…
insanity reigns

~kat

The natural world is not always rainbows and butterflies. But it is a just and fair cycle of life. Sometimes I get a front row seat like today.

The day started like it usually does. A perfect summer morning. A bit of a breeze, which is always fragrant this time of year. This morning I detected a hint of honeysuckle. One of my deer friends came by to say good morning, so a tossed her a bit of corn to munch on. I had some errands to run…before settling in for a little cat nap.

And that’s when I saw him, a magnificent red shouldered hawk perched a few yards away from the bird feeders. It was clear that the finches, cardinals, wrens, tits, cowbirds, and mourning doves had sent out the alarm…best to take shelter…danger from above. (Ironic, isn’t it, that humans in various locations are exercising a similar practice these very days…but for much more selfish, malevolent reasons…power, greed, and hate…but I digress…)

The hawk, though his shadow from above scattered the smaller critters here in the woods, he was not being hateful or vindictive, or even monstrous. He just had an empty belly to fill, and the felled tree trunk beneath him just happened to be home to several smaller rodent-types. Field mice and chipmunks, snakes and lizards. I know he has harvested birds on occasion…the splattering of feathers is a dead giveaway.

But today poultry was not on the menu. He was looking for a snack (I suspect this because there were 1/2 a dozen squirrels collecting seeds under the feeders, and he was not interested in the least.) I stepped away from my window seat for a few minutes and when I returned, he was gone, either bored from the blight of fresh options or he had found what he came for. To my delight all the birds had returned to the feeders, the squirrels were beneath catching the seeds that dropped to the ground. And I thought, what a lovely glimmer…life goes on.

But that was not the end of mother nature’s glimmer show today. Soon a turkey hen made her way to the feeders to pluck seeds from the ground…and to my surprise and delight she had a young chick I tow, showing it the ropes on this little acre in the foothills.

She even introduced it to the red clay hill nearby and showed it how to take a dust bath. Life does indeed go on!

One more…a video of the hen-chick spa day!

Much love, peace, and glimmers to you!

~kat ✨✨✨💚💚💚✨✨✨

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June 22, 2025

day 170

By Kat Myrman

a pi-ku

what the fuck
Trump…
insanity reigns!

~kat

Today…this first day of summer, this sacred space in the woods revealed an abundance of glimmers to hold me as the events of the world devolved into even more chaos.

Loaded with symbolism, I feel even more connected to the universe. I’m sharing them with you as I hold our world close to my heart. May the innocents everywhere find peace and hope as madmen in high places play roulette with our welfare.

Much love, peace, and glimmers to you.

~kat ✨✨✨💚💚💚✨✨✨

A doe and her fawn at dawn…symbols of
innocence, grace, gentleness, new beginnings, and protection, nurturing, and a connection to the natural cycles of life

Midday, a tortoise happened by…symbolizing wisdom, longevity, stability, and protection…

…and this evening evidence of a turkey hen’s presence…a feather left behind with her foot prints left in the red dust that rained from her feathers after her late afternoon dust bath. What a gift! Her message…abundance, prosperity, gratitude, connection to the Earth, nourishment, and the importance of family and community.

All these messages today…from the this little acre on the edge of the woods. None of us knows what the future holds, in this time of great instability and uncertainty, but we are never alone. We are a community. I wish you…I wish us all peace.

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June 20, 2025

day 169 ~ happy solstice

By Kat Myrman

fantastical indulgences 
on a mid-summer night

if I never filled another 
feeder with sunflower seeds, 
millet, fruit and wheat berries,
if I never broke bits of bread
tossing them into the back yard 
for the crows…or laid peanuts 
on the edge of the covered porch 
deck for squirrels to snatch …
if I never scattered feed corn for
the deer and wild turkeys who
meander by each day at dawn 
and dusk, or never dissolved  
white sugar in warm water 
for the hummingbird jars 
hanging just outside my window…

the birds on this acre 
on the edge of the woods
would still go to sleep
bellies plump and satiated, 
the crows would have plenty 
to feast on…nuts, insects, eggs,
and even carrion, the squirrels 
would happily gather hickory nuts, 
grains, berries and seeds, 
the deer would munch on 
juniper berries and graze on 
clover with the rabbits, the turkeys 
would busy themselves plucking 
grubs and mites from the red dust, 
and seeds from the soil, and the
hummingbirds would sip sweet 
nectar from flower cups alongside
the butterflies and honeybees

these gentle friends don’t need me
life will go on when I am gone, 
but oh, how I’d miss the little 
community we’ve built, a utopia 
based on kindness and respect 
in this shared green space 
that we all call home sweet home…
and I’d like to imagine that they
would miss me and my rambling
one-sided conversations too.
I wonder if they’d miss the
moments that we share space 
and breath and eye contact 
wrapped in grace and trust…
I like to imagine that they would

~much love, peace and glimmers to you!

✨✨✨💚kat💚✨✨✨