Sunday, September 19, 2010

Content

holy experience

Joining Ann today

Counting blessings

"These I have loved:
White plates and cups, clean-gleaming,
Ringed with blue lines; and feathery, faery dust;
Wet roofs, beneath the lamplight; the strong crust
Of friendly bread; and many-tasting food;
Rainbows; and the blue bitter smoke of wood."

Rupert Brooke


230 - the marriage bed *

231 - paisley

232 - white plates

233 - the last of the summer dahlias

234 - beauty

235 - a gift from far away

236 - dusk

237 - cake

238 - light on the water

239 - light on the quilt


* Andrew Wyeth, Marriage
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21 comments:

  1. Mommy EmilySeptember 19, 2010 at 11:23 PM

    oh jodi... you shine light in the hard to see places, and you make me thankful. i needed this tonight. what an utterly gorgeous gratitude list... love to you, dear friend. xo

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  2. -t-September 20, 2010 at 7:35 AM

    Beautiful. Thank you :)

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  3. RosieSeptember 20, 2010 at 9:36 AM

    The last of the summer dahlias are beautiful!

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  4. RachelSeptember 20, 2010 at 11:08 AM

    I always enjoy the quotes, poems, words of wit and wisdom at the beginning of your lists! 232 and 237 look delicious! Here's to Home, Hearth and Hospitality, may your week be blessed as well, thanks Jodi!

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  5. LeslieSeptember 20, 2010 at 12:00 PM

    Beautiful, beautiful. Making me smile in the midst of a difficult day.

    Loving that poem. Loving. And Andrew Wyeth. And paisley. And crimson dahlias in blue and white china. And lanterns (I have two EXACTLY like yours sitting atop my oak armoir.)

    And I am comforted and uplifted in the knowledge that you are praying for me. And thankful.

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  6. ClaudiaSeptember 20, 2010 at 12:21 PM

    this was beautiful - my fav line was...Ringed with blue lines; and feathery, faery dust
    we should faery dust our days a lot more...

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  7. keLiSeptember 20, 2010 at 12:50 PM

    your "beauty," it got me. and how you encourage. glad to be here today...

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  8. CherylSeptember 20, 2010 at 5:29 PM

    "Content" is an underrated word. Love your photos and hope they do bring you true contentment. Love the dahlias. Sigh.

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  9. angelinaSeptember 20, 2010 at 8:07 PM

    love your photos jodi..esp the paua shell and quilt. ps. thank you for sharing the love in grits story ! :) xoxo

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  10. HelenSeptember 20, 2010 at 11:01 PM

    I loved seeing the river photo, light on the water, as well as the paua shell.

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  11. Thickethouse.wordpressSeptember 21, 2010 at 9:11 AM

    Lovely post and photos! I have the same blue pitcher you do, and an abalone shell. I miss the smell of leaves burning in the fall. This was always a part of my childhood, but it's better for global warming not to do this, I think.

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  12. Hana - MarmotaSeptember 21, 2010 at 1:07 PM

    I love that poem, too. Those are all things I could love as well (and do: blue and white china? Oh, my!)

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  13. Kim HylandSeptember 21, 2010 at 2:04 PM

    Jodi, what a beautiful home you must make. Such beauty in such simple things. Thank you for noticing and reminding me to look.

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  14. JodiSeptember 21, 2010 at 3:00 PM

    Kim, thank you very much. Most everything in our home has been thrift shopped, flea marketed, or dare I say, trash picked. Not ashamed, heehee. It's fun. Beauty from the discarded.

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  15. JodiSeptember 21, 2010 at 3:01 PM

    Thanks everyone for sharing. Your thoughts are always welcome.

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  16. ValSeptember 21, 2010 at 3:35 PM

    I love the Brooke...thank you :0)

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  17. KerrieSeptember 21, 2010 at 5:37 PM

    Oh beautiful list, as always. I LOVE that Wyeth painting. Love it. On our vacation to Maine this summer we got to go to a whole museum dedicated to the Wyeths...I think you would have loved it.

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  18. UnknownSeptember 21, 2010 at 10:08 PM

    you share peace.

    it is a gift
    and it blessed me . thank you Jodi, thank you

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  19. SYSeptember 21, 2010 at 10:49 PM

    You have aroused my creativity and appetite

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  20. JodiSeptember 22, 2010 at 1:24 AM

    Nice to meet you, SY.

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  21. UnknownSeptember 25, 2010 at 11:01 AM

    This is refreshing, wonderful, beautiful...and things I would never have thought to see. Thank you.

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