Blossoming Blessings "Hummingbird over Starflower Bush" Backyard garden in Mountain View (11:32 am, 12-15-2013)

Hummingbird hovers over starflower bush outside of my window. Messages from everywhere light up my backyard— this bird sings to me people far away share the air and clouds around us and wild wind brings a surprise sharing— streaks of firebird cloud photos from a Swiss stranger thanking for my web page of cloud photos that brought memories of his childhood. Now Nye's gazelles gallops across the grassy plains with winds of grace. Last poem in A Maze Me: "My mind is always open. I don't think there's even a door." Later Bill Taylor plays "Goodnight Sweetheart" at the Stanford Theatre. High above towering palm trees a giant lunar halo welcomes me home. — Peter Y. Chou     Mountain View, 12-15-2013

Gabriel Spinel's December 15 email "Phoenix Cloud" from Switzerland Leaping Gazelles Naomi Shihab Nye's 19 Varieties of Gazelle Jan-Peter Semmel's "Open Mind" Moon Halo over Palm Trees above my apartment (11:32 pm, 12-15-2013)