When Skies are Silver

On this rainy weekend, I think of another cloudy-about-to-rain day when a friend saw his elderly neighbor at work in her garden. He called, “How are you on this gray day?” She looked up, smiled, and said, “Oh, it’s not a gray day; it’s silver.”

 

What is water

that pours silver

and can fold the sky?

 

– Hilda Conkling –

Poems by a Little Girl

 

Wishing you silver on a cloudy day.

Nurture peace, cultivate kindness, and carry the calm.

 

Nature of the week:

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Winter’s Best Secret

 

Over the land freckled with snow half-thawed

The speculating rooks at their nests cawed

And saw from elm-tops, delicate as flower of grass,

What we below could not see, Winter pass.

Edward Thomas, “Thaw”

 

Nurture peace, cultivate kindness, and carry the calm.

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Young Hearts, Open Eyes

 

“Let us keep our hearts young and our eyes open that nothing worth our while shall escape us.”

novelist Victor Cherbuliez

 

Nurture peace, cultivate kindness, and carry the calm.

 

Nature of the week – a bit lopsided, but a heart just the same:

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