Wild music is abroad . . .
Chill airs and wintry winds! My ear
Has grown familiar with your song;
I hear it in the opening year,
I listen, and it cheers me long.
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow –
“Woods in Winter”
Nurture peace, cultivate kindness, and carry the calm.
Nature of the week – winter jasmine:
Shadow of the Week:
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Deep peace of the running wave to you.
Deep peace of the flowing air to you.
Deep peace of the quiet earth to you.
Deep peace of the shining stars to you.
– based on writings of poet William Sharp –
Nurture peace, cultivate kindness, and carry the calm.
Nature of the week – poinsettia reaching for the sunlight:
. . . and its shadow:
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“Hatred paralyzes life;
Love releases it.
Hatred confuses life.
Love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life;
Love illuminates it.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr., A Testament of Hope –
Nurture peace, cultivate kindness, and carry the calm.
Nature of the week:
Shadow of the Week – shamrocks and Dala horse:
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“Adopt the pace of Nature. Her secret is patience.”
Nurture peace, cultivate kindness, and carry the calm.
Nature of the week – from the window at my desk, a winter sky:
Shadow of the Week – from picnic tables at the zoo on a chilly day:
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Happy New Year!
“Give us grace and strength to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind. Spare to us our friends and soften to us our enemies. Give us the strength to encounter that which is to come, that we may be brave in peril, constant in tribulation, temperate in wrath and in all changes of fortune, and down to the gates of death loyal and loving to one another.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
Nurture peace, cultivate kindness, and carry the calm.
Nature of the week:
Shadow of the Week—a rope fence at the zoo:
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“The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.”
“In Memorium A.H.H.”
Wishing you a new year of peace and deep joy.
Nurture peace, cultivate kindness, and carry the calm.
Nature of the week – Christmas cactus:
Shadow of the Week:
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“In the dew of little things,
the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.”
– Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet –
May the beauty of little things bring you joy this holiday season. May you find your heart’s morning. May you be refreshed.
Nurture peace, cultivate kindness, and carry the calm.
Nature of the week – paperwhites:
Shadow of the Week:
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“Peace is happiness digesting.”
– Victor Hugo –
Wishing you many moments of happiness to digest.
Nurture peace, cultivate kindness, and carry the calm.
Nature of the week:
Shadow of the Week—a small Christmas village casting a long shadow:
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“In the cloud-gray mornings
I heard the herons flying;
And when I came into my garden,
My silken outer-garment
Trailed over withered leaves.
A dry leaf crumbles at a touch,
But I have seen many Autumns
With herons blowing like smoke
Across the sky.”
– Amy Lowell, “Hoar Frost” –
Nurture peace, cultivate kindness, and carry the calm.
Nature of the week – our first snow of the season:
Shadow of the Week:
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The ten hours’ light is abating,
And a late bird wings across,
Where the pines, like waltzes waiting,
Give their black heads a toss.
Beech leaves, that yellow the noon-time,
Float past like specks in the eye;
I set every tree in my June time,
And now they obscure the sky.
– Thomas Hardy, “At Day-Close in November” –
Nurture peace, cultivate kindness, and carry the calm.
Nature of the week:
Shadow of the Week:
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