finding inner peace

A Green Tree and A Singing Bird

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“Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps the singing bird will come.”

– Chinese proverb –

 

In this season when our thoughts focus on gratitude, I’m thankful for each of you, for the grace, goodness, wonder, and hope that fills your hearts. Nurture peace within yourself, cultivate kindness toward others, and carry that calm wherever your life journey takes you.

 

Nature of the week:

Shadow of the Week – Looks like the profile of a rabbit to me:

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Light and Color

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“How beautiful the leaves grow old.

How full of light and color are their last days.”

– John Burroughs –

 

Nurture peace, cultivate kindness, and carry the calm.

 

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Shadow of the Week:

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All the Places, All the Time, All the People

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Do all the good you can,

By all the means you can,

In all the ways you can,

In all the places you can,

At all the times you can,

To all the people you can,

As long as ever you can.

– John Wesley –

Nurture peace, cultivate kindness, and carry the calm.

 

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Shadow of the Week:

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Living Gold

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Live thy Life,

Young and old,

Like yon oak,

Bright in spring,

Living gold;

Summer-rich

Then; and then

Autumn-changed

Soberer-hued

Gold again.

All his leaves

Fall’n at length,

Look, he stands,

Trunk and bough

Naked strength.

– Alfred, Lord Tennyson –

 

Nurture peace, cultivate kindness, and carry the calm.

 

Nature of the week:

Shadow of the Week – flags at the zoo:

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Infinite Calm and Exceeding Peace

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Deep in the soul, below pain,

below all the distraction of life,

is a silence vast and grand –

an infinite ocean of calm,

which nothing can disturb;

nature’s own exceeding peace…

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– R.M. Bucke –

 

Nurture peace, cultivate kindness, and carry the calm.

 

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Shadow of the Week:

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Something Whispered

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Something told the wild geese

– It was time to go;

Though the fields lay golden

– Something whispered, – ‘Snow.’

Leaves were green and stirring,

– Berries luster-glossed,

But beneath warm feathers

– Something cautioned, – ‘Frost.’

– Rachel Field –

 

Enjoy the magical change of seasons. Nurture peace, cultivate kindness, and carry the calm.

Nature of the week:

Shadow of the Week – a lamppost:

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Courage in Stormy Seas

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“I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning to sail my ship.”

– Louisa May Alcott –

 

The word courage comes from Latin cor and Greek kardia. So take heart. Sail your ship. Nurture peace, cultivate kindness, and carry the calm.

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Shadow of the Week:

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Give Me October

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Give me October’s meditative haze,

Its gossamer mornings, dewy-wimpled eves…

And all is peace, peace, and plump fruitfulness.

– Alfred Austin, “October” –

 

Nurture peace. Cultivate kindness.

When you can, step away from the chaos and into the calm.

Then carry that calm with you, deep in your heart.

 

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The Unvanquished Sun

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“The huge great clouds move slowly, gently, as

Reluctant the quick sun should shine in vain, . . .

In all the myriad grey,

In silver height and dusky deep, remain

The loveliest

Faint purple flushes of the unvanquished sun.”

– John Freeman –

 

Nurture peace. Cultivate kindness. Carry the calm.

 

Nature of the week:

Shadow of the Week – kitchen tools in my dish drainer:

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Real Gold

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“For anything worth having one must pay the price;

and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice –

no paper currency, no promises to pay,

but the gold of real service.”

– John Burroughs –

 

Work for peace. Nurture it. Cultivate kindness. Carry the calm.

 

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Shadow of the Week:

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