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It Keeps Coming

11/1/2018

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The salmon work so hard
but the water runs so fast.
It holds them back; they push.
They flail; they fail.
It pushes them back, again.
They keep trying, again and again.
The water keeps rushing and raining; flowing and filling up the creek.
The salmon keep rushing and rallying; floundering and falling back.
Is it futile?
It’s life; the will forces the way.
But who’s will and who’s way?
Who wins?
Brains and brawn; Beauty doesn’t matter.
The whole thing is beautiful.
It inspires me.
It depresses me.
But the Salmon know:
It’s better to die a big death than to live a small life.
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On a walk through town and forest

7/30/2016

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​Oh hey,
You look like someone that I used to know

As I almost walk into a street sign
that could have been death instead.
I can't help but wonder if making laws
that shouldn't need to be made
or signs that seem over-played,
is a necessity, because
common sense is anything but common.

All you have to do is watch the news so rotten.
Or scan the headlines, if you're already so depressed...
You just can't get any less impressed.
It seems our species
has lost the plot completely. 

A lot of people won't say "hi"
And I don't know why.
Maybe they're just shy?
Stuck in their own space

Happy days in happy places
Are treasures to cherish.
Because you never know
The creaking tree could come crashing down
From above
to below.
You just never know.

Crows converse.
And call me crazy
But I think I know what they say.
Bluejay bursts in, blatantly billowing. 
And the buzzing!

I sense a message
That might make sense
in another language
Like a moth chasing a flame
Or a bird chasing that moth - in vain.

One cicada, two cicada, three cicada, chorus
By the creek,
And in the forest

Where the cheeky chickadee chirps,
Chillaxin 
And then the chainsaw
A blast back to reality,
An outlaw, the machine...
... messing with my meditative mindset,

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​Oh, the hypocrisy!



Could it be prophecy?


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See full post, here!
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Awestruck.

7/16/2016

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I love where I live
and the joy that it gives:
Dundas, Ontario, it's Our Valley-Town,
Along Spencer Creek, where nature abounds.  
In my backyard, Great Beauty is found.

Though I didn't always know,
and I was sort of just a schmo;
For it was not but several years ago...
I'd trek along the trail,
oblivious to the snails.
Thumbs thumping iPhone,
iPod pop tunes, head down, 
and wrapped in my own private sound.  
iMind my iBusiness,
but now it seems I digress...

In my middle-aged Nowadays,
I listen to what the bird says,
the clamouring cicadas,
thundering and the creaky tree. 
The water is turning and churning,
that cascading creek, rushing those rocks!
If you really listen, you know that the creek truly talks.

When it's inspiration that I seek
I take myself out for a peek.
Sitting on a rock by a creek
I listen and hear nature speak.

I see.
And I'm in utter awe 
of many mighty, minuscule, meaningful moments:
Oh, dear! A deer
and me,
we
share a stare
while the hare hops and the squirrel goes over the bridge.

"You're an Artist. And it's a great place to Be," said the biker to the Dreamer.

And, just so you know
this is a true story,
more or less, or less is more...
Maybe it was all but a dreamer's dream,
or a poet's poem?

Here is the complete adventure in photographs:
https://www.facebook.com/missnikkirocks/media_set?set=a.10157099612965705.1073741878.605790704&type=3&pnref=story
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Check! - Couch to 5K is completed...

4/2/2015

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.... plus 0.9K by mistake....

And, it seems that I may have meant to post this back in the fall, and didn't, until now...  I have skipped the horrible winter months... but I managed to get in a couple runs over the March Break... using the Run, Zombies! app.  And then, I got my wee baby toe run over in a grocery shopping cart incident and couldn't put on a running shoe...and my music got wiped out on my iTunes... but all has been recovered and I'm hoping for some nice long weekend weather so I can get back at it! So, there! 
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My Couch to 5K Adventures

11/2/2014

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I started in August.  It's hard not to enjoy the process when these are the sights I see!
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In Beauty May I Walk.

7/14/2014

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~ Navajo Prayer ~
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In beauty may I walk.
All day long may I walk.
Through the returning seasons may I walk.
Beautifully will I possess again...
Beautifully birds...
Beautifully joyful birds...
On the trail marked with pollen may I walk.
With grasshoppers about my feet may I walk.
With dew about my feet may I walk.
With beauty may I walk.With beauty before me may I walk.
With beauty behind me may I walk. 
With beauty above me may I walk.
With beauty all around me may I walk.
In old age, wandering on a trail of beauty, lively may I walk.
In old age, wandering on a trail of beauty, living again, may I walk.
It is finished in beauty.
It is finished in beauty.
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District, Glowing Proud

11/12/2012

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Around About Valley Town in August

8/22/2012

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Beautiful Evening on King Street
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Tew's Falls (above and right)
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Spencer Creek (the Bridge at Market Street)
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Full album here: 
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10152034962685705.890849.605790704&
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Dundas is Hockeyville, 2012!

7/30/2012

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Random Roofs
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A Sunday Morning Hike

7/25/2012

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Sunday morning hike.
Not a human soul around.
Cicada Symphony.


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    Along Spencer Creek, or, Why I Love Living in, Our Valley Town, Dundas, Ontario

    I love Dundas so I'm gonna show it with my pictures!
    Nicola Schneider, Hobby Photographer

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    ~ Navajo Prayer ~
    *******************
    In beauty may I walk.
    All day long may I walk.
    Through the returning seasons may I walk.
    Beautifully will I possess again...
    Beautifully birds...
    Beautifully joyful birds...
    On the trail marked with pollen may I walk.
    With grasshoppers about my feet may I walk.
    With dew about my feet
    may I walk.
    With beauty may I walk.

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