Into this Heart

01-24-1015- Into This Heart by Teri H Hoover©
for my friend Sharmon

The Cascades Trail, Pembroke, VA 1-2015

We stand reaching.

Leaning in

into this heart.

The tentative heart waiting

to arise unshackled

from the detritus. 

We stand reaching 

Even in our sleep

we are reaching.

 For my friend Sharmon

If I Go Straight

01-12-1015-If I Go Straight by Teri H Hoover©
Link to: Sunday Whirl- #195 and Heart Macro #86- Shine the Divine


 

 Cascade Trail, Pembroke, VA

The story is not new.  I write words of wondering every once in a while. I muse along, wandering. I may find a point to share - or I may just be grateful. This will be a place holder for today. If I go straight with intention I will find myself in just this place. It is the intention within the faulty prayer I pray. I am consoled in my moments of awkward searching. My intentions are made straight with Gods grace. My mind wonders, I wander. But in  this intention I go forward with grace. I repeat myself. With so many words. The curves I love, wind around me embracing this heart. It must be winter again.

 Lichen Hearts

Cascade Trail, Pembroke, VA

I do not capitulate myself to an inky channel. Rather I render myself free. I am not listless; appearances deceive. I am only bobbing up and down on the nearly frozen water.  A single leaf  with an invisible anchor.  Smudged into a layer of  lethargy and resigned to the ennui of winter, where the smell of life is remembered. To generate a thought the heart must first hear more than silence. If I go straight there will beginnings after this ends. 

 
A list of words from the Sunday Whirl #195-  

Dormant

 Dormant by Teri H Hoover©

December 13, 2014

 

Lifeless leaf
Skids over a partially frozen pond.
Frantic wind chime
Clangs haphazardly on a rusted chain.
Dormant fish
Sustained by cycles, and the seed of summer. 

 Facebook Small Stones Writing Group

The Well Used Heart

So I have been away. The curve got hold me. I flew off into the ozone for awhile. 

Here is a small selection of life since May....

 How are you?  

Shine the Divine- I Heart Macro week 17

Sunday Whirl #125- September 8, 2013
Poetic Bloomings September 8, 20123 Prompt 119- "Looking Back- Looking Forward" 
   
The Well Used Heart  by Teri H  Hoover ©

One small brush with a stranger, at the magic edge of idleness.

One little push at the top of the curve; there is no turning back.

Traveling the avenue of thought only to lose my answer.

Stains of intrigue stamped upon my passport.

Approaching the borders without dimension. 

Where is my country?

Only a heart full of emptiness can return home.

 

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Breathing in The Light

This photo contributed to::

I heart macro Sunday-Studio Waterstone, 

Black and White Wednesday~Me As Mother (scroll down for photo contribution)

Weekend flowers # 55
Macro Monday~at Lisa's Chaos 
Wordless wednesday 
Random Hearts~Guest Heart Thursday 
Photo Art Friday- Pixel Dust blog-(scroll down for photo contribution)

Flower Art Friday~Photos by LeAnne  
It is a small world after all

Friends Front Hall, Cincinnati Ohio- Sept 30, 2012

We see that on the edge of this photo there is darkness, and it makes the light all the more lovely. It brings a focus to the flowers. We breath into the light. 

For me the autumn is a busy time, my photography clients are geared up to have family photos done in time for the holidays.  There is less time to play with "my" images. It is interesting that I have taken well over 1000 personal photos, since late July. That is about half the norm. Just how many images does one girl need anyway?  I  digress.  The above photo was one that caught my eye while staying at a friends house a few weekends ago. I hope you like it.

The last weekend in September we were visiting friends; long time friends. My son and his wife are currently doing a year long musical tour, and had several gigs in Cincinnati. (I will be doing a post on this very soon, which I will link to once done.) Our friends were graciously hosting my son and his wife. They were delighted of course, as they consider my son, their son. My husband and I could not resist visiting, since they were "only" 6 hours away. It is good to have friends that are family.

Here are some other photos from life:

 image for Photo-Art Friday-Liquid 

New Smyrna Beach FL- Sept 2012

Wind Rock, Smith Mountain Lake VA, October 2012

And here is just a few images from my client work-

She Waits...

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 Key West Cemetery, Key West, FL- April 2, 2012

 She waits.

 In the time between.

Church grounds, St Mary's -Star of the Sea Catholic Church,  Key West, FL- April 1, 2012 

Joining my daughter in Key West, Florida- I am finding lots to photograph. No surprise there. The fact that I am traveling at all is the amazing part. But, I have learned to take advantage of the time my husband is away, to visit with our adult children. It is a tough job- but someone has to do it. Time to go out and photograph some more. And yes, I brought my Canon 5 D and am not just using my cell phone. Blessings for Holy Week. xo teri

waiting seams

From my writing page- a small stone Gathering

January 26, 2012- Small Stones
waiting seams  by  Teri H Hoover


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the day flips by 

and a quilt waits.

Exposing all those seams.

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Living Room Floor, Blacksburg, VA - Jan 26, 2012

 

So January slips by- and it seems (- ah those lovely seams,) that the whole world has discovered how to pause- even my quilt.  Maybe this weekend I can cut out the pieces for the backing. Been a busy girl though... how about you? 

Blacksburg VA- September 5,2011

Waiting for the rain

Wholeheartedly

Driveway, Blacksubrg, VA- April 4, 2011

Well no doubt about it 

I have been a bit reclusive 

and down in the dumps

Spring is a time of transition and I have been feeling out of synch- I just want to be bloomed already. I am feeling a bit ragged and unbloomed.  How is it I walked through the waiting of winter- but am impatient in spring?

Maybe it is I feel like spring can't make up its mind.

To be fair there have other factors-that  darn writing forum-Writing our Way Home has tempted me into my second month long writing endeavor and there has been a lot of  tilling of the soil, so to speak.  Or maybe it is because my husband is "somewhere other than here" (to quote Jimmy Buffet) and won't return until May.  And the 4 year anniversary of the awfulness that took place in my beloved Blacksburg; the tragedy at Virginia Tech.  I went to the vigil on Saturday night with a friend and was moved to tears - again.  Tears of  sadness yes- but tears of hope. And love for the resilience of the human heart.  It takes strength to grieve even after all this time.  It takes hope to walk away and live.

We stand with each other letting go and holding on.

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And we choose to bring light -
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click for short You Tube video
Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA- April 16, 2011

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 and blessing.

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So I am reminded to walk in faith, breathing in the balance.

Letting God make all things new again.

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Today I was on my 2 mile circle and brought my behemoth camera with me. Five pounds of digital bliss.  Pepper the dog of dogs - trained into submission can walk unleashed for much of the walk; while I happily photograph to my hearts content.  My two gig card filled!! I am very exited to process these photos! But first I had just few more from last week- including the one at the top of this post.
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The photo at the top of this post -did you see the lovely surprise ? 

I have hinted at it several times within this post.   

The hole in the clouds is the shape of a heart.

And I never saw it until today.

Wholeheartedly

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Blessings- may all the holes in your heart only be a place for more love.

xo teri

Waiting to be Remembered

Backyard Garden, Blacksburg, VA- Nov 12, 2010

A Patiently Waiting Teapot

I let go
of believing

I should be something different to be loved.

 I let go
of tightly held
beliefs
that I must be something more.

In being emptied my heart is filled.

Full of thanks

Thankful  

I return later to see I have left the lunchtime teapot-

It makes me smile as I carry the teapot back inside. It feels warm from the uncharacteristically warm November sunshine. 

And so do I.

The Blue Dress with the Red Band

Baltimore MD- July 17, 2010

The Blue Dress with the Red Band

Packed boxes hide around the corner-
Mingling with the humid unconditioned air.

She is almost ready.

And I love her in her "almostness".

On the edge of tomorrow.

The small metal band 
content
and 
unassuming


a
still
small 
reminder

She

lingers

in 

 a blue dress

with

  a red band.

 

Dan's Willow in Blacksburg

Blacksburg, VA - Nov. 16, 2009

Sometimes we give each other small blessings-

That only show their true color and worth after many years.

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This willow has found it's most glorious self  20 years after it was planted.  

A gift from my brother Dan - a small cutting wrapped in damp burlap- it certainly did not look like much.

But I accepted it with great joy,

knowing someday its graceful branches would bring me great peace. 

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Why is it so hard to wait while God reveals His plan.

We become tired.

Frustration sets in sapping every trace of patience and hope.

How can this situation ever become a blessing?

God's plentiful love like a willow in autumn-

scattering little golden leaves in abundance.   

 

Thank-you Dan

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