Category Archives: Walk

#SmallStone: Day Six

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Small Stone: Flock of Robins

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Walking the dogs at Colorado State University this morning, making our way through a stand of trees next to some of the campus greenhouses, we are swarmed by a flock of Robins. We try to count them, but getting an accurate number is difficult, as they flit from branch to branch, fly from tree to tree, mostly won’t stay still, but our guess is there are between 15 and 25. I have never seen so many in one place, together. I am amazed, and happy, and a tiny bit sad, without needing to explain any of it.

#SmallStone: Day Five

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Small Stone: Leaf Impression

cottonwoodleafWalking the dogs this morning, I look down and notice the impression of a pair of cottonwood leaves stamped into the sidewalk. The original leaves are long gone, but the shadow remains, pressed as they were into this ground, etched into this path for as long as this hard surface will last.

We are like that too, impressions of us will remain when we are gone, faint outlines where we pressed against the world.