Month: May 2017

The Window

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“Better keep yourself clean and bright:

You are the window

through which you must see the world.”

– George Bernard Shaw –

 

And sometimes you are the window through which others see the world.

Nurture peace, cultivate loving-kindness, and carry the calm.

 

Nature of the week – from earlier this spring:

Shadow of the Week – late afternoon in my kitchen:

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What Adds Up to a Life?

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“Begin at once to live,

and count each separate day as a separate life.”

– Lucius Annaeus Seneca –

I often find bits of wisdom tucked away in novels. Recently I was reading the novel Saints for All Occasions by J. Courtney Sullivan and found this: “She had made a choice and then she had made another and another after that. Taken together, the small choices anyone made added up to a life.”

May you choose peace daily. Nurture  it, cultivate loving-kindness, carry the calm, and that will be your life.

Nature of the week – poplar leaf after a rainstorm:

Shadow of the Week – a tree shadow spills into the street:

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The Infinite, High and Clear

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“. . . feel the stars and the infinite

high and clear above you.

Then life seems almost enchanted after all.”

– Vincent van Gogh –

 

Nurture  peace, cultivate loving-kindness, and carry the calm.

Have an enchanting Mother’s Day!

Nature of the week – high and clear:

Shadow of the Week – from a dragonfly garden ornament:

 

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How Do You Pay for a Lovely Moment?

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Did you ever find yourself unable to enjoy a lovely moment, because you don’t deserve it? Or because too many people in the world can’t enjoy such moments, so you believe you have no right to enjoy them either? Sounds a bit warped, but some of us have thought that way. Yet a lovely moment is a gift, and to willfully ignore it is to be ungrateful.

 

“The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.”

– Richard Bach –

 

Enjoy some lovely moments this week. Let them nurture your peace and cultivate your loving-kindness. Carry the calm.

Nature of the week – my Japanese maple, red in the springtime. Notice the shadows of leaf on leaf and the “winged” seeds:

Shadow of the Week:

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