marabutterfly.bsky.social @marabutterfly.bsky.social · 20/05/2026“The Flower never had a to-do list, not one day of her life. She just pointed her whole self toward light.The rest took care of itself.” Chelan Harkin #BloomScrolling #Nature #PoppiesandPenstemon 030
marabutterfly.bsky.social @marabutterfly.bsky.social · 15/05/2026#BloomScrolling #Nature #FreeToBeHereNow We are not here to fit in, be well balanced, or provide exempla for others. We are here to be eccentric, different, perhaps strange, perhaps merely to add our small piece, our little clunky, chunky selves, to the great mosaic of being. -James Hollis 010
marabutterfly.bsky.social @marabutterfly.bsky.social · 09/05/2026This morning green fists of peonies are getting ready to break my heart as the sun rises and it strokes them with his old buttery fingers they open, all day under the shifty wind the flowers tip their fragrance to the air and rise gladly and lightly #MaryOliver #Peonies #BloomScrolling #Nature 000
marabutterfly.bsky.social @marabutterfly.bsky.social · 09/05/2026#SaturdaySerenade #BloomScrolling #Nature "And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything." - Will Shakespeare 000
marabutterfly.bsky.social @marabutterfly.bsky.social · 09/05/2026Life's Circuitous Labyrinth Path #BloomScrolling #Nature #PassionatePurpose #Gingko A person's life purpose is nothing more than to rediscover, through the detours of art, or love, or passionate work, those one or two images in the presence of which his heart first opened. " - Albert Camus 010
marabutterfly.bsky.social @marabutterfly.bsky.social · 02/05/2026#BloomScrolling #May #SaturdaySerenade “This living flowing land is all there is, forever. We Are it, it sings through us. ”~Gary Snyder 030
marabutterfly.bsky.social @marabutterfly.bsky.social · 01/05/2026Annie Dillard BDay #81 “When you walk across the fields with your mind pure and holy, then from all the stones, and all growing things, and all animals, the sparks of their soul come out and cling to you, and then they are purified and become a holy fire in you” #BloomScrolling #Moonrise #FireWithin 020
marabutterfly.bsky.social @marabutterfly.bsky.social · 30/04/2026#BeHereNow #BreatheHereNow "The Past means nothing to true Love, for Love can only breathe in this very moment. All else is only past exhalations. The oxygen of Love is in the now… as is cherishing, whatever it is one is called to cherish." ~ Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estes #BloomScrolling #Nature 030
Reposted by @marabutterfly.bsky.socialJim O'Donnell @jimodonnell2.bsky.social · 27/04/2026Planting one million trees to cool a desert city - Writers On The Range writersontherange.org/planting-one...writersontherange.orgPlanting one million trees to cool a desert city - Writers On The RangeTucson lies in the heart of the Sonoran Desert where summers are serious business. In 2024, a record-breaking 112 days... 061
Reposted by @marabutterfly.bsky.socialJim O'Donnell @jimodonnell2.bsky.social · 27/04/2026Dismantling the U.S. Forest Service harms public lands and communities - #publiclands || writersontherange.org/dismantling-...writersontherange.orgDismantling the U.S. Forest Service harms public lands and communities - Writers On The RangeWhen I led the Bureau of Land Management under President Biden, the hardest part of my job was reassembling the... 094
marabutterfly.bsky.social @marabutterfly.bsky.social · 27/04/2026#PoeticSpring #CherryBlossoms #BloomScrolling pink blossoms, blue skies Wind and rain leave the ground covered Soon April moves on …mere-et-filles 040
marabutterfly.bsky.social @marabutterfly.bsky.social · 27/04/2026#BloomScrolling #Nature Each world bears all the worlds we might find within it. To understand one outcropping of stone, one wildflower, one hummingbird, seeing the tracery of cause and effect, the mystery of change and recreation, leads to everything we see, and everything we are. - S. Nightingale 040
marabutterfly.bsky.social @marabutterfly.bsky.social · 19/04/2026In Japanese folklore, Wisteria vines are sometimes depicted as weakening a demon's power. #BloomScrolling #April #Nature 030
marabutterfly.bsky.social @marabutterfly.bsky.social · 19/04/2026Spring air. Nobody knows how it appears and disappears. The sun opens its eyes: Sprouts shoot in my thoughts. Air more than leaves, a flutter barely green, they turn for a moment and scatter. Time weighs a little less. I breathe. -- Octavio Paz #BloomScrolling #PoeticNature 040
marabutterfly.bsky.social @marabutterfly.bsky.social · 16/04/2026Do Not Fear Blooming Boldly “Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth” -Pema Chödrön “Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.” - Toni Morrison #BloomScrolling #PoeticNature 030
marabutterfly.bsky.social @marabutterfly.bsky.social · 16/04/2026#BloomScrolling #PoeticNature #AppleBlossoms #April "How far are you from me, O Fruit? I am hidden in your heart, O Flower." - Robindranath Tagore, Bengali poet 030
marabutterfly.bsky.social @marabutterfly.bsky.social · 15/04/2026Walt Whitman: Lincoln’s Death "When lilacs last in the door-yard bloom’d, And the great star early droop’d in the western sky in the night, I mourn’d, and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring." Shot April 14, 1865, died April 15, 1865 #BloomScrolling #PoeticApril #Nature #SpringLilacs 070
marabutterfly.bsky.social @marabutterfly.bsky.social · 14/04/2026- Will Shakespeare “From you have I been absent in the Spring, When proud-pied April, dressed in all his trim, Hath put a spirit of youth in everything, That heavy Saturn laughed and leaped with him.” #BloomScrolling #PoeticNature #Spring 030
marabutterfly.bsky.social @marabutterfly.bsky.social · 14/04/2026Anais Nin: “Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death. Perfection is static, and I am in full progress” #BloomScrolling #Hellebore #TruthAndBeauty #PoeticNature 030
marabutterfly.bsky.social @marabutterfly.bsky.social · 14/04/2026“Nothing happens in which you are not entangled in a secret manner, for everything has ordered itself around you and plays your innermost. The stars whisper your deepest mysteries to you, and the soft valleys of the earth rescue you in a motherly womb" Jung: The Red Book #BloomScrolling #Nature 020
marabutterfly.bsky.social @marabutterfly.bsky.social · 14/04/2026“Magnolia you sweet thing, You’re driving me Wild” J.J. Kale Magnolias existed ~ Before dinosaurs roamed the Earth… Before Homosapiens… Before Honeybees… Beauty finds a way… #BloomScrolling #TruthAndBeauty #Nature 040
marabutterfly.bsky.social @marabutterfly.bsky.social · 14/04/2026Trilliums: Mary Oliver Every spring among the ambiguities of childhood the hillsides grew white with the wild trilliums. I believed in the world. Oh, I wanted to be easy in the peopled kingdoms, to take my place there, but there was none. #BloomScrolling #Spring #PoeticNature 040
marabutterfly.bsky.social @marabutterfly.bsky.social · 13/04/2026#BloomScrolling #Nature #PoetryMonth #MondayMood Today I’m flying low not saying a word letting all the voodoos of ambition sleep. Taking the day off. Quiet as a feather. I hardly move though really I’m traveling a terrific distance. Stillness. One of the doors into the temple. -Mary Oliver 040
marabutterfly.bsky.social @marabutterfly.bsky.social · 13/04/2026#BeHereNow #BloomScrolling #AprilShowers #PoeticNature “Fearlessness is what love seeks... Such fearlessness exists only in the complete calm that can no longer be shaken by events expected of the future... Hence the only valid tense is the Present, the Now.” -Hannah Arendt 020
Reposted by @marabutterfly.bsky.socialRoshi Joan Halifax @joanhalifax.bsky.social · 11/04/2026With deep concern about the deconstruction of the Forest Service and turning the wilds into a commodity, I was reminded early this morning of this from Eihei Dogen: “Mountains and waters right now are the actualization of the ancient Buddha way.” 1291
marabutterfly.bsky.social @marabutterfly.bsky.social · 11/04/2026Let the rain kiss you Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops Let the rain sing you a lullaby The rain makes still pools on the sidewalk The rain makes running pools in the gutter The rain plays a little sleep song on our roof at night -Langston Hughes #BloomScrolling #AprilRain 060
marabutterfly.bsky.social @marabutterfly.bsky.social · 09/04/2026April #PoetryMonth #BloomScrolling #Nature "Poetry calls us to pause. There is so much we overlook, while the abundance around us continues to shimmer, on its own." - Naomi Shihab Nye 040
marabutterfly.bsky.social @marabutterfly.bsky.social · 09/04/2026"No Winter lasts forever. No Spring skips its turn. April is a promise that May is bound to Keep.” - Hal Borland #BloomScrolling #Nature #Poetry #Spring 040
marabutterfly.bsky.social @marabutterfly.bsky.social · 09/04/2026sama zama no mono omoidasu sakura kana +++++++++ So many things they call into my thoughts cherry blossoms! -Basho #BloomScrolling #Nature #Haiku #Spring 040
marabutterfly.bsky.social @marabutterfly.bsky.social · 06/04/2026"In my youth I was but the slave of the high tide and ebb tide of the sea, and the prisoner of half moons and full moons. Today I stand at this shore and I rise not, nor do I go down. " -Kahlil Gibran #BloomScrolling #Nature #Poets #Spring 040
marabutterfly.bsky.social @marabutterfly.bsky.social · 06/04/2026“The cherry trees that lined the street were pink and trembling, exhausted by the burden of so many petals. They turned the light pink and gold.” - Ann Patchett: Dutch House #BloomScrolling #Nature #Poetics #Spring 030
marabutterfly.bsky.social @marabutterfly.bsky.social · 01/04/2026“In the Autumn, I gathered all my sorrows and buried them in my garden. And when April returned and Spring came to Wed the Earth, there grew in my garden beautiful flowers, unlike all other flowers. - Khalil Gibran 💛 #BloomScrolling #Spring #Nature #Poetry 040
marabutterfly.bsky.social @marabutterfly.bsky.social · 31/03/2026Lacy exuberance of Spring overflowing with blossom foam like a sudsy mug of beer like a bride ripping off her clothes dropping snow white petals to the ground in clouds. Nature's wastefulness seems quietly obscene, making beauty and throwing it away, and making more -Tony Hoagland #BloomScrolling 010
marabutterfly.bsky.social @marabutterfly.bsky.social · 31/03/2026#FarewellMarch #BloomScrolling #Poetry #Nature “Let me keep my distance, always, from those who think they have the answers.Let me keep company always with those who say, "Look!"and laugh in astonishment, and bow their heads.”-Mary Oliver 030
marabutterfly.bsky.social @marabutterfly.bsky.social · 29/03/2026"This great rolling sphere with its sky, its stars, its sunrises and sunsets, and with its outlook into infinity, what could be more desirable? What more satisfying?” John Burroughs Born 105 years ago today #BloomScrolling #Nature #Mistletoe 030
marabutterfly.bsky.social @marabutterfly.bsky.social · 29/03/2026March is vanishing with winter’s leafless trees getting greener each day … hazel tree catkins Mary Oliver: “Light is an invitation to happiness, and that happiness, when it's done right, is a kind of holiness, palpable and redemptive." #BloomScrolling #Spring #Poetry #Nature 030
marabutterfly.bsky.social @marabutterfly.bsky.social · 28/03/2026“ We do not Create our Destiny; we Participate in its Unfolding. Synchronicity works as a Catalyst toward the working out of that Destiny.” - David Richo #BloomScrolling #Nature #Coincidence 030
marabutterfly.bsky.social @marabutterfly.bsky.social · 28/03/2026‘scuse Me, while I kiss the sky .. - Jimi Hendrix Blue Sky emerges from rain clouds #cherryblossoms #BloomScrolling #Nature #Spring 020
marabutterfly.bsky.social @marabutterfly.bsky.social · 28/03/2026“ Clouds drift ephemeral across the dome of this world, carrying eternity condensing molecules that animated the first breath of life, coursing with electric charges that will power the last thought.” M. Popova #BloomScrolling #Nature #Poetry #Clouds 040
marabutterfly.bsky.social @marabutterfly.bsky.social · 28/03/2026May I live this day Compassionate of heart, Clear in word, Gracious in awareness, Courageous in thought, Generous in love. - John O’Donohue #BloomScrolling #Spring #Nature #Poetry Waxing Gibbous Moon 090
marabutterfly.bsky.social @marabutterfly.bsky.social · 26/03/2026#BloomScrolling #Nature #Poets The Way In - Linda Hogan Sometimes the way to milk and honey is through the body. Sometimes the way in is a song To enter stone, be water. To rise through hard earth be plant, desiring sunlight, believing in water. Native Pacific Hounds Tongue 010
marabutterfly.bsky.social @marabutterfly.bsky.social · 26/03/2026#BloomScrolling #Nature #Poetry “If only we could speak to one another [as sleeping], when our hearts are half-open flowers. Words, like golden bees would drift in.” Rolf Jacobson 150
marabutterfly.bsky.social @marabutterfly.bsky.social · 23/03/2026#BloomScrolling #Nature #PoeticVerse “There is a way of beholding nature which is a form of prayer, a way of minding something with such clarity and aliveness that the rest of the world recedes. It ... gives the brain a small vacation.” - Diane Ackerman Barrenwort 040
marabutterfly.bsky.social @marabutterfly.bsky.social · 22/03/2026#BloomScrolling #Nature #Poets “Love is an origin and an arrival all at the same time… giving the journey between origin and arrival, a new, surprise and burgeoning meaning” - David Whyte Anemone Between Bud & Bloom 020
marabutterfly.bsky.social @marabutterfly.bsky.social · 21/03/2026#SpringAwakening “What was whispered to the flower to break it open last night...was whispered to my heart.” - Rumi #BloomScrolling #Nature #Poetry 090
marabutterfly.bsky.social @marabutterfly.bsky.social · 20/03/2026#WorldPoetryDay #BloomScrolling "I consider myself kind of a reporter, one who uses words that are more like music and that have a choreography. I never think of myself as a poet; I just get up and write." - Mary Oliver 040
marabutterfly.bsky.social @marabutterfly.bsky.social · 20/03/2026"Spring" Sitting Bull "Behold my brothers the spring has come; the earth has received the embrace of the sun we shall soon see the results of that love! Every seed has awakened and so has all animal life. It is through this mysterious power that we too have our being.” #BloomScrolling #SpringEqinox 0132
marabutterfly.bsky.social @marabutterfly.bsky.social · 20/03/2026“I believe in kindness. Also in mischief. “ - Mary Oliver "Then my heart with pleasure fills, and dances with the daffodils.”– William Wordsworth #BloomScrolling #Nature #Poetry #Spring 070
marabutterfly.bsky.social @marabutterfly.bsky.social · 20/03/2026"It is Spring again. The Earth is like a Child that knows Poems by Heart." — Rainer Maria Rilke #BloomScrolling #Nature #Poetry #StellarMagnolia 081
