oh my. how much i identify. you have no idea. but bless your ever-loving hearts.
really. 
beautiful photograph and wonderful post. You really are good imitations of Buddhists, you know. We are indeed all on earth together, and we have never had any answers.
Introspection is a blessing, hiatus important. Love you!
Love that pix.
Nice shot.
Strange - there are four comments reported but I cannot see them, just an empty comment box.
Nonetheless - it strikes me that you are not really on hiatus at all, you and roger are simply concentrating on individuals whose situations are important to you. There's a time for extroversion and a time for introspection. It's good of you to write a post that reminds me that there is nothing wrong and everything right about choosing how to focus, and then following that choice.
You'll be back, I'm sure.
Life is complex. Enjoy your hiatus.
I shall keep a good thought for you and for those you know.
Comments appear to be a haloscan problem - it's appearing on other blogs as well. Or not appearing as the case may be.
Sometimes hiatuses are good things. I am a believer that we have a lot to look at in the world at large and closer to us that can be bad; so we need to balance it with the good things that are going on. It's what I try to do with the blog because it would be easy to be swallowed with sadness at what can happen and does. It isn't the whole picture though as there are also beautiful things going along right besides tragic ones. Keeping balance, when we have so much information, is a constant learning experience. In the past, if someone knew about their own tribe, maybe some stories that came from further away, that was it. We know about the world and our own community. It's a challenge to stay happy and live fully aware. In some ways we are way ahead of those who lived more sheltered existences as we can make changes to adjust to coming events-- or will we...
Holding you and all your someone's in my thoughts. -llm.
Sometimes there are no answers...only those we love!
Like the two of you!
alan
Robin, the list of someone you know echoes my own list - someone I know just died after a long, full life. Someone I know just went back out drinking, and struggles to come back to AA. Someone I know is trying to get pregnant. Someone I know gave birth to her second child, and two days later her husband was dead from leukemia.
None of us have answers. But we are part of a river of light that flows through us all.
A soulful posting. Thank you.
Golly I thought you knew ME until the Baby part...I am DONE with that.
Enjoy your time off. We all need it.
If compassion is a hiatus, you're on it. This is lovely writing, so moving. If compassion is a hiatus, take me with you!
So many someones. So many individual life paths.
We are all 'someones' to someone. Alone together on our jewel of a planet. Working our importantness out to the very last detail. All 6 billion of us. It's easy to be overwhelmed.
You have both been so generous with your words, pictures, thoughts, instructions in keeping up this blog. Thanks for the peek inside your open window. After all this time I've still learned new things about you. So take your time and let the magic of the Redwoods do to you their wonderful what ever it is they do so uniquely. I love you. See you. Happy hiatus.
Later,
Simple, yet profound.....
Enjoy the hiatus. I hope all goes well.
wow.. remind me to make sure i drink my morning coffee before i read your blog. deep stuff to ponder and guilt over. but thanks for the forceful nod that there are others out there and to be thankful for what we have.
Simple yet profound. Very insightful and beautiful, thank-you.
i'll miss you.
So much being there, feeling, loving. You surely have touched a familiar chord in many of your readers.
Our lives are like mist. We know ourselves to fill a space, but events, things, pass through and we make way, whether we want to or not; when they are gone, the twists and rolls of disturbance linger for a time, then slowly, slowly, we re-coalesce.
Oh you two ALWAYS have our whole humanity encased in your being...I admire it completely, and want to become more quiet myself........... This was a fantastic piece of inspiration, your writing.......thanks ...........
I feel on the verge of tears....all the grief of our recent loss finds a celebration in your conscious minds and kind hearts.
Get a good rest and fill your souls with peace and harmony ... and then get back to us! 
have a great hiatus guys!
Beautiful post. We all know people in various stages of life, career, mindfullness. The thing about getting older is that there is more sadness because we suffer (?) more loss as time goes on. If there is any balancing factor, and we are a little lucky, we get some peace from knowing
ourselves, and reconciling ourselves with unrealized dreams.
take care and enjoy your hiatus...
the birds will still enjoy your company, even if your readers do not get to share your thoughts!
Thinking of you and all those you laugh and grieve with.
With your photo, you speak well without words. The photo will continue to speak during your hiatus.
Great bird photo. I don't think that you should have any egrets about not posting more often. Thanks for the beautiful thought for the height of summer.
It's usually when my head and or heart is full that I have the least to say- but sometimes a few words says a lot.
Take good care.
Love the photo. That is such a great picture. I know people similar to the ones you mention. As the world turns....
peace to you and yours Robin and Roger! someones I know are missed around here.
someones I know write beautiful, thoughtful posts about living and for them I give thanks.
(((hugs)))
I keep stopping by, hoping you're back but understanding why you're not.
I am the hiatus KING. See if you can beat my record.
Missa Gaia by the Paul Winter Consort. Your post made me think of it.
Perfect, and mindful too. Thank you, I needed to read this.
Miss you Bums! "I threw my cup away when I saw a child drinking from his hands at the trough." Diogenes
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