noticing
stop you in your tracks.
On 22, Nov 2014 | No Comments | In noticing | By Natalie
I have a little friend in Seattle.
She is just the perfect amount of tallness to wrap her entire self around one of my legs for a hug. And when she does, she squeezes nice and tight. Sometimes she even offers a reassuring little pat, pat, pat to my leg.
Just yesterday, this littlest friend and I were walking together in the neighborhood as we often do. As we passed other walkers, many an adult would see her and smile to themselves as they carried on.
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falling from the sky.
On 14, Jan 2014 | No Comments | In noticing | By Natalie
plant your hand,
then your foot.
go.
trust your strength.
i can’t
i’m not that strong — but no one
is telling you that but yourself.
there you are.
dangling high above the ground,
alone.
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the drums.
On 02, Dec 2013 | No Comments | In creating, noticing | By Natalie
This past weekend, something new happened to me. Something, that has never happened before. You want to know? I stood up in front of a room full of lovely people and read something… that I myself wrote. I’ve never done that before, never. The process of preparing and the experience that day was a mind-blowing experience, reminding me that we must struggle, we must create and we must share in community with one another. We must not do it alone. (But more on that another time.)
it’s quite kind of the world.
On 17, Sep 2013 | No Comments | In noticing | By Natalie
did you see the wind today?
it ruffled and blew with authority
not afraid to announce it’s presence.
that wind,
that wind is telling us something.
can you tell what it is?
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very much alive.
On 04, Jun 2013 | One Comment | In creating, noticing | By Natalie
the other day
admiring their greenness.
On 13, Dec 2012 | No Comments | In noticing | By Natalie
sandy here she comes
On 30, Oct 2012 | No Comments | In noticing | By Natalie
today has been full of
early morning hours.
stacks of paper.
computer screens.
coffee mugs.
face-to-face encounters.
words, words & then more
words.
dinner and cauliflower.
designs and dreams.
hopes and goals.
listening and direction.
excitement
anticipation.
typing keys.
roommate energy
and roommate jokes.
today life, it was busy today.
coffers still coffeed at
their favorite local spots.
traffic existed in only its
predictably jerky inconsistency
during the usual times of day.
yellow buses picked up loads of backpacks
with kids attached.
and just like that,
without hardly noticing…
today, my world went on.
but meanwhile elsewhere
just due miles East, the world as they know it
stopped.
No literally.
Stopped.
No subway lines.
No taxis.
No buses.
No traffic lights.
No Wall Street.
No Stock Exchange.
Nothing.
just people…
being told to stay indoors.
And wait.
wait for the rain
for the damage
for the unknown.
oh deary what’s your name?
did they say Sandy?
oh sandy sandy
so strong and so mighty.
my heart goes out to
those in your
path.
– n.
tonight i went to service
On 29, Oct 2012 | 3 Comments | In noticing | By Natalie
tonight i went to service
for one purpose
and one purpose only.
to hear
to listen
to feel
the drums.
there’s something particularly perfect
about music,
about drums.
the beat
the pulse
the rhythm.
it gets in you, through you
reverberating across within without
your entire being.
and if you can, just for a moment
zoom in on it, the drums.
only it.
the beat
the pulse
the rhythm.
in that moment
when you meet the drum
you might notice
that it guides the entire
collection of notes.
can you? do you?
it does. because
it holds
it brings
it defines.
it’s particularly extraordinary really.
those drums.
and in that moment
between only you & the drum
if you listen closely
you will
hear
listen
feel
your heart.
in there.
in you.
contentedly beating inside.
reverberating amongst bones & echoing
down veins
in the only home it’s ever known.
your heart.
it’s content to be alive
and do all it has ever done and ever
hopes to do:
to beat out the rhythm
of your life.
there’s something particularly perfect
about the drums.
to remind us
how to
hear
listen
feel
that one thing.
that one thing
that’s always been inside.
– n.
wednesday specials
On 16, May 2012 | One Comment | In noticing | By Natalie
since beginning
this new year
wednesdays have become something very special.
i can’t tell you
it’s a “special wednesday.”
because these wednesdays,
they keep coming.
after every 7 sleeps, actually.
that’s why i should call it,
something like:
the wednesday specials.
i do many things
on my
weekly wednesday specials.
things that might look like nothing
to many.
but it’s something.
it is.
do you know how i know?
well, it’s when that “special” happens.
the special of
…watching a 4 year-old discover how
to count to $1 million.
the special of…learning new words
like “veteranarian” then deciding
right then and there
that you might want to be that.
the special of…
interruptions and calculations.
the special of…
thinking you know when
you don’t.
or maybe it’s just the special of…
spinning the wheel.
and taking a LIFE tile.
mom’s day.
On 13, May 2012 | One Comment | In noticing | By Natalie
on the days it was easy
and on the days
it was hard.
thanks for choosing.
thanks for choosing.
because it’s actually made
all the difference.
happy mother’s day
Mom.
– n.
to see the real fun mother’s day
post
visit here.