“One single grateful thought raised to heaven is the most perfect prayer.”
– G.E. Lessing –
Nurture peace, cultivate kindness, and carry the calm.
Nature of the week:
Shadow of the Week:
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Nature invites me to linger and fills me with wonder.
And wonder, I believe, is a kind of gratitude.
– kh, Linger –
Wonder and gratitude nurture peace, so as always: Nurture peace, cultivate kindness, and carry the calm.
And Happy Thanksgiving to friends and family in the U.S.!
Nature of the week:
Shadow of the Week (It’s a triple shadow.):
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This is the back cover of my new book Linger: 365 Days of Peaceful Pauses.
I hope it helps nurture peace, cultivate kindness, and carry the calm.
Nature of the week:
Shadow of the Week:
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Half of the leaves have fallen, half have yet to fall. Leaves underfoot, leaves overhead. I’m surrounded by beauty.
“And then there crept
A little noiseless noise among the leaves,
Born of the very sigh that silence heaves.”
– John Keats –
Nurture peace, cultivate kindness, and carry the calm.
Nature of the week:
Shadow of the Week:
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“Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty
never grows old.”
– Franz Kafka –
Nurture peace, cultivate kindness, and carry the calm.
I have a bit of news: My latest book, Linger: 365 Days of Peaceful Pauses, brief nature essays, meditations, and even a few poems, is now available for order. Its official release date is November 1. (Makes a great holiday gift!)
Nature of the week:
Shadow of the Week:
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“Come watch with me the shaft of fire
That glows in yonder West:
The fair, frail palaces
The fading alps and archipelagoes
And great cloud-continents of sunset-seas.”
Skies have been amazing this month: color-rich sunsets; mid-morning blue skies with one white puff of a cloud, moonglow on full moon nights, cloudy skies with layers rippled in every hue of gray, and great white cloud continents floating calmly overhead. There’s a peace to be found in taking a deep breath of sky.
Nurture peace, cultivate kindness, and carry the calm.
Nature of the week:
Shadow of the Week:
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“Write injuries in sand, kindnesses in marble.”
– French proverb –
Nurture peace, cultivate kindness, and carry the calm.
Nature of the week:
Shadow of the Week:
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“The beauty that shimmers in the yellow afternoons of October,
who ever could clutch it?”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Nature” –
Nurture peace, cultivate kindness, and carry the calm.
Nature of the week:
Shadow of the Week:
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“The aspens at the cross-roads talk together
Of rain, until their last leaves fall from the top.”
– Edward Thomas, “Aspens” –
The cool morning breeze is whispering to the trees that rain is coming. Hackberries and elms are dropping their golden-brown leaves a few at a time. As they drift slowly down, I breathe deeply of this moment of peace.
Nurture peace, cultivate kindness, and carry the calm.
Nature of the week:
Shadow of the Week:
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“Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby –
Nurture peace, cultivate kindness, and carry the calm.
Nature of the week:
Shadow of the Week:
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