winners + the gift

pink fleece, pink softness, pink / Miss Winnie Dixon* out Saturday with her tribe - Juicy, Bella, Deb & Sam / dried asters ? / VIP photo shoot with Director of Photography on set / found these sweet tiny trailing succulents on our walk / messy, messy desk & light table mid collage / envelopes for some snail mail / the grassy hill / collage-a-go-go - see finished version here

The Journey 

One day you finally knew
what you had to do, and began,
though the voices around you
kept shouting
their bad advice --
though the whole house
began to tremble
and you felt the old tug
at your ankles.
"Mend my life!"
each voice cried.
But you didn't stop.
You knew what you had to do,
though the wind pried
with its stiff fingers
at the very foundations,
though their melancholy
was terrible.
It was already late
enough, and a wild night,
and the road full of fallen
branches and stones.
But little by little,
as you left their voices behind,
the stars began to burn
through the sheets of clouds,
and there was a new voice
which you slowly
recognized as your own,
that kept you company
as you strode deeper and deeper
into the world,
determined to do
the only thing you could do --
determined to save
the only life you could save.

Mary Oliver

I love you Mary Oliver, you are of my tribe
you call this poem  the journey ...  I call this poem the gift

+ winners of the great greeting card giveaway. Oliver used the random number generator to pick the following 3 numbers (ya huh !) we decided to give away 3 complete sets of 10 greeting cards with matching gorgeous colour envelopes, sealed in cellophane & shipped with love wherever you might be No.20, No.28 & No.8 by our calculations would the following please email us your postal address 

No. 20 - Amanda
No. 28 - Blue Heron
No. 8  -  the Veg Artist

* the look on Dee's face in this photo just makes me want to kiss her from head to paw and back again - sigh