...................................Prayer...................................
 

Dear Father,

hear and bless
Thy beasts and singing birds:
And guard with tenderness
Small things that have no words.

Amen.

Previous Thoughts Index

...The First Day of Autumn

The twins are taking a sailing class at one of our local state parks.  I invited my Momma to go with me to watch them. The weather was in the mid-80's but the breezes off the Bay held a touch of autumn.

We packed a picnic, laid a blanket under a tree by the water's edge, and watched each of the twenty students outfit and rig their small sailboats and then wheel them down to the water. At first it looked like sailboat bumper cars and then they started capsizing, falling over one-by-one, like dominoes. The girls screamed and the boys yelled triumphantly. The water was very cold. *smile*

Then, magically, they all lined up perfectly and sailed out to the buoy marker and made perfect turns, one after the other. Beautiful and so very peaceful to watch. Even Quinn watched the sailboat ballet though he did have more fun playing in and eating the sand, and seeing how far he could wander away before I ran after him, scooping him up to bring him back to the blanket.

A perfect way to spend the first day of autumn.