Peace, Angels, and Diamonds

We shall find peace,

We shall hear angels,

We shall see the sky

Sparkling with diamonds.

– Anton Chekhov –

When skies are clear, long winter nights make for good stargazing. If it’s a clear night, look up and linger for a moment with the stars. Let your cares float away, if only for a moment. Breathe in peace. – Linger: 365 Days of Peaceful Pauses

Nurture peace, cultivate kindness, and carry the calm.

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A Splash of Light in the Darkness

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“Tonight after I turned off my bedside lamp, I paused to settle into a restful peace, letting my eyes linger on the skewed rectangular pattern created by my neighbor’s garage light shining through my windows. A car passed, and its lights lit the angles of the dormer ceiling for a moment. Then all settled back to the grayed tones of the shadows cast by my windows. When I was a young girl, I often spent the night at my grandmother’s house, which was on the corner of a busy street. After dark, snuggled in her king-sized bed, I would watch light flash through the bedroom windows from the headlights of cars turning the corner. Like Tinkerbell, the light splashed one wall, flowed around the room, and then darted back out, chasing the car.” – Karyn Henley, Linger: 365 Days of Peaceful Pauses

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A Single Grateful Thought

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“One single grateful thought raised to heaven is the most perfect prayer.”

– G.E. Lessing –

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Nature’s Invitation

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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.!

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The Space of a Breath

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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.

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The Sigh of Silence

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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 –

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Sand and Marble

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“Write injuries in sand, kindnesses in marble.”

– French proverb –

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Who Can Clutch It?

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“The beauty that shimmers in the yellow afternoons of October,

who ever could clutch it?”

– Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Nature” –

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Talking of Rain

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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.

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