Hare Décor

Image: The Leveret (artist unknown).

See also the previous posts:
• Hare with Mustache and Monocle
• Summer Herbs and Hare
• Hare Décor – February 16, 2023
• Hare Décor – April 20, 2018
• Hare Décor – July 28, 2017
• Hare Décor – January 25, 2017
• Hare Décor – May 6, 2015
• Hare Décor – September 20, 2014
• Hare Décor – December 13, 2012

Hare with Mustache and Monocle

Artwork: Artist unknown.

See also the previous posts:
• Leporid Sculpture
• Surreal
• Crown of Blooms
• The March Hare
• The Summer Hare
• At Possum's Party
• Hare o’ the Tabor

In Lamplight

Image: The Leveret.

See also the previous posts:
• Morning Light – August 8, 2023
• Hotel Room
• For a New Day . . . and a New Year
• Winter Light
• The Role of Reevaluation in the Gay Man’s Quest for Authenticity
• Morning Light – August 30, 2013
• Morning Light – May 5, 2012
• Morning Light – August 30, 2013

Morning Light

Image: The Leveret.

See also the previous posts:
• Hotel Room
• For a New Day . . . and a New Year
• Winter Light
• The Role of Reevaluation in the Gay Man’s Quest for Authenticity
• Morning Light – August 30, 2013
• Morning Light – May 5, 2012
• Morning Light – August 30, 2013

The Easter Hare

See also the previous posts:
• The Original Easter “Bunny”
• Easter Bunny or Eostre Hare?
• Easter Hare (2011)
• Symbol of Enlightenment
• Eostre: Goddess of New Life Beginnings
• The Goddess Ostara
• Remembering Eostre
• Celebrating Eostre

Related Off-site Link:
The Pagan Roots of Easter – Heather McDougall (The Guardian, April 3, 2010).

Image: The Leveret.

Hotel Room

Image: The Leveret.

Sub-Zero

The head of my ornamental moon-gazing hare, protruding out of the snow and into the sub-zero temperatures currently being experienced in Minnesota.


See also the previous posts:
Minneapolis Weather: Brrring on the Coldest Night of Winter – Sven Sundgaard (Bring Me the News, February 3, 2023).
Bitter Cold Friday Morning Gives Way to a Big Weekend Warmup – Minnesota Public Radio News (February 3, 2023).

See also the previous posts:
• In the Winter Garden
• Winter Hare
• In Winter Field
• Winter Light
• Hares in Winter
• The Promise of Imbolc

Image: The Leveret.

Hares and Spiral

See also the previous posts:
• Let the Spiral Turn and Turn
• A Time of Transformations

Beltane Morning Light

Image: The Leveret.

See also the previous posts:
• Beltane
• A Beltane Blessing
• “Hail to the Seasonal Prince”

And at The Leveret’s brother site, The Wild Reed, see:
• Beltane: Casting Off the Darkness and Celebrating the Light
• Beltane: Celebrating the Sheer Exuberance of May
• Beltane and the Reclaiming of Spirit
• Beltane Morning Light

Afternoon Light

Images: The Leveret.

For a New Day . . . and a New Year

Compassionate Creator,
Thank you for this new day,
its beauty, light, and possibilities.
Thank you for the chance to begin again,
free from the limitations of yesterday.

Today may I be reborn.
May I become more fully
a reflection of your radiance
and an embodiment
of your transforming love.

Give me strength and compassion.
Show me the light within myself and others.
Help me recognize the good that is available everywhere.

May I be, this day, an instrument
of love and healing.
Lead me in your ways
so that I may know life in abundance.
Ground me in a constant awareness of your presence
so that I may know and embody
your peace, wisdom, and courage.

Amen.

Adapted by Michael Bayly from a prayer by Marianne Williamson
in her book, Illuminata: Thoughts, Prayers, Rites of Passage (1994)

See also the previous posts:
• For the New Year
• Morning Light – January 1, 2013
• Love
• Morning Light XLV
• Reevaluation in the Gay Man’s Quest for Authenticity
• Day 1 of the “7 Days of Sweat Challenge”

And at The Leveret’s brother site, The Wild Reed, see:
• A Blessing for the New Year (2020)
• A Blessing for the New Year (2019)
• Anew
• Move Us, Loving God
• Prayer of the Week – August 3, 2015
• Prayer and the Experience of God in an Ever-Unfolding Universe
• The Prayer Tree

Image: The Leveret.

Night Visitor

Image: The Leveret.

See also the previous posts:
• Horace
• The Visitor

Summer Herbs and Hare

Image: The Leveret.

Cajiib iyo Saaxiib Qurux Badan

Image: “Cajiib iyo Saaxiib Qurux Badan” (“Scarf and Beautiful Friend”) by The Leveret.

See also the previous posts:
• All the Time
• Saaxiib Qurux Badan

Hare Décor

Image: The Leveret.

Saaxiib Qurux Badan

Images: Saaxiib Qurux Badan (“Beautiful Friend”) by The Leveret.

All the Time

It happens all the time in heaven,
And some day

It will begin to happen
Again on earth –

That men and women who are married,
And men and men who are
Lovers,

And women and women
Who give each other
Light,

Often will get down on their knees

And while so tenderly
Holding their lover’s hand,

With tears in their eyes,
Will sincerely speak, saying,

“My dear, How can I be more loving to you;

How can I be more
Kind?”

– Hafez

Image: Saaxiib Qurux Badan (“Beautiful Friend”) by The Leveret.

Winter Light

Spring passes and one remembers one’s innocence.
Summer passes and one remembers one’s exuberance.
Autumn passes and one remembers one’s reverence.
Winter passes and one remembers one’s perseverance.

– Yoko Ono

Image: The Leveret.

First Snow

Image: The Leveret.

See also the previous posts: In Autumn Snow | Hare in Snow (2017) | Hare in Snow (2012) | Snow Is in the Air

Cosmic Hare

Image: The Leveret (May 6, 2018).

See also the previous posts:
• Cosmic Hare (2013)
• Lepus – Constellation of Hare
• Even in the Heavens
• The Hare on the Moon