{"id":5428,"date":"2026-07-03T17:10:02","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T21:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/?p=5428"},"modified":"2026-07-04T08:40:51","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T12:40:51","slug":"widening-the-skirts-of-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tamara.tedzplace.ca\/?p=5428","title":{"rendered":"widening the skirts of light&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Out for my walk this morning<br>as Friday\u2019s small bit of<br>routine<br>has now been determined<br>off to collect our farm share of<br>wonderfully fresh, and decidedly delicious<br>good things to eat<br>looking up at the beautiful blue<br>I marvel at just how often I will notice<br>the wispy white cloud above me<br>that looks to be<br>a wing<br>or a feather<br>comes to feel as if I<br>am being<br>accompanied on my travels<br>always<br>I will think of my Aunt Pat<br><br>home again, home again<br>jiggety-jig<br>it is also the day to check in at<br>my<br>Little Free Library out front<br>tidy a bit, rearrange and exchange a few<br>books<br>add a few more wee beeny-animals<br>an interesting fossil, a colourful rainbow eraser<br>some Marvel cards<br>and<br>a duck<br>smile inside thinking of someone\u2019s<br>delight<br>(as well as my own)<br>actively a part of <br>small joys<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>another scorching hot day<br>it often amazes, when passing through gates<br>how one is instantly exposed<br>to the<br>heat<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>yet in the garden <br>although definitely still a hot one<br>how lovely and cool the breeze<br>feels<br>in amongst the various jungle-y areas<br>of our space here<br><br>first chores of the day are of course<br>replenishing the bird baths<br>being sure to keep them fresh and topped up<br>for drinks as well as for<br>splashing<br>and there has been plenty of both<br><br>at mid-afternoon<br>our resident froggy is floating quite free<br>in the middle of the big pond<br>not currently tucked safely in long stems<br>to the side<br>looks as if he too wouldn\u2019t mind some kind of<br>replenishing shower to hopefully break<br>a little<br>the extremeness of the 30 plus readings<br><br>many of the birds come in spurts and starts<br>as they too must be keeping to<br>cooler spaces<br>two of the nesting boxes sound to be<br>still quite full<br>of little wrens, as parents can be seen<br>coming and going<br>and the chorus of hungry babies<br>is quite wonderful<br>when food arrives<br><br>the trumpets on the vine are opening now<br>daily<br>and the orioles have been joyfully<br>dipping in<br>for something sweet<br>and it never does take long for the hummingbirds<br>to find<br>flowers are open<br>our poor toads are definitely keeping to cooler<br>spots and only stealthily slipping in<br>for a swim<br>when a particularly curious nosey pup<br>is not<br>about<br>to cause bother<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>the duckweed which loves these kinds of<br>temperatures<br>has gladly filled in most of the entire surface<br>of the ponds<br>possibly keeping what lurks below<br>protected from<br>scorch<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>when I was picking up the vegetables, I thought this morning<br>to tell the lady in the flower shop<br>once again, just how lovely I think everything is<br>even though I don\u2019t buy anything<br>it\u2019s just a lovely, lovely<br>aesthetic<br>but I don\u2019t&#8230;<br>wondering, as I go, if this would be appreciated<br>as intended, or fall hollow<br>if one has not spoken<br>with<br>purchase<br><br>while in the book I am reading<br>I stopped for a few extra minutes<br>on this,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cBut I have a belief of my own, and it comforts me.\u201d<br>&#8230;<br>\u201cThat by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don\u2019t<br>quite know what it is and cannot do what we would,<br>we are part of the divine power against evil \u2013 widening<br>the skirts of light and making the struggle with<br>darkness narrower. \u201c<\/em><br><br>May you be well my friends,<br>May you be safe and<br>at ease<br>May kindness and moments that<br>delight<br>meet you<br><br>right where you are<br><br>and May you, yourself <br>try<br>to put something good<br>in  the <br>world \u2665<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Out for my walk this morningas Friday\u2019s small bit ofroutinehas now been determinedoff to collect our farm share ofwonderfully fresh, and decidedly deliciousgood things to eatlooking up at the beautiful blueI marvel at just how often I will noticethe wispy&hellip; 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