“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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“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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“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.
Nature of the week:
Shadow of the Week:
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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.
Nature of the week:
Shadow of the Week:
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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.
Nurture peace, cultivate kindness, and carry the calm.
Nature of the week:
Shadow of the Week – flags at the zoo:
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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…
– R.M. Bucke –
Nurture peace, cultivate kindness, and carry the calm.
Nature of the week:
Shadow of the Week:
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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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