“In the depths of winter, I finally learned
that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
– Albert Camus, “Return to Tipasa” –
Nurture peace, cultivate kindness, and carry the calm.
Nature of the week – summer smiles from the “garden” of my supermarket floral department:
Shadow of the Week:
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Text and photos © 2018 Karyn Henley. All rights reserved.
“Nature is not so poor as to possess only one of anything.”
– John Muir –
Notice how nature echoes herself in abundance. Trees, each the same but different from others, sometimes subtly, sometimes extravagantly. Flowers, birds, clouds, all themes and variations of beauty and wonder. Gifts offered to us daily. Ours simply for the noticing.
Nurture peace, cultivate kindness, and carry the calm.
Nature of the week – berries I saw on a walk in Japan:
Shadow of the Week – morning shadow on the rice paper screen of my bedroom in Japan:
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“Art has something to do with
the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos.
A stillness which characterizes prayer, too,
and the eye of the storm . . .
an arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.”
– Saul Bellow, quoted in Writers at Work, edited by George Plimpton
Find your place of stillness, your prayer, your eye of the storm. Rest in it, embody it, for you are a work of art.
Nurture peace, cultivate kindness, and carry the calm.
Nature of the week:
Shadow of the Week:
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“Paths are made by walking.”
– Franz Kafka –
Walk paths of peace, cultivate kindness, and carry the calm.
Nature of the week:
Shadow of the Week (windowsill):
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