“Set wide the window.
Let me drink the day.”
– Edith Wharton –
(We’ve had so much rain lately, drinking the day seems almost literally possible!)
Nurture peace, cultivate kindness, and carry the calm.
Nature of the week:
Shadow of the Week:
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“No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.”
– William Blake –
Sometimes it’s hard to recognize your own wings, to appreciate them, to come to love them. Sometimes you have to lean on someone else’s wings first. But when you recognize and accept your own, that’s when your heart soars.
Nurture peace, cultivate kindness, and carry the calm.
Nature of the week – Lenten Rose:
Shadow of the Week:
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“From form to form, beauty to beauty,
ever changing, never resting,
all (in nature) are speeding on
with love’s enthusiasm,
singing with the stars the eternal song of creation.”
– John Muir –
Nurture peace, cultivate kindness, and carry the calm.
Happy Valentine’s Day!
Nature of the week:
Shadow of the Week:
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“I have loved the principle of beauty in all things.”
– John Keats –
Look for the beauty in all things. Nurture peace, cultivate kindness, and carry the calm.
Nature of the week – a rhododendron bud waiting for spring:
Shadow of the Week:
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“In the depths of winter, I finally learned
that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
– Albert Camus, “Return to Tipasa” –
Nurture peace, cultivate kindness, and carry the calm.
Nature of the week – summer smiles from the “garden” of my supermarket floral department:
Shadow of the Week:
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“Nature is not so poor as to possess only one of anything.”
– John Muir –
Notice how nature echoes herself in abundance. Trees, each the same but different from others, sometimes subtly, sometimes extravagantly. Flowers, birds, clouds, all themes and variations of beauty and wonder. Gifts offered to us daily. Ours simply for the noticing.
Nurture peace, cultivate kindness, and carry the calm.
Nature of the week – berries I saw on a walk in Japan:
Shadow of the Week – morning shadow on the rice paper screen of my bedroom in Japan:
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“Art has something to do with
the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos.
A stillness which characterizes prayer, too,
and the eye of the storm . . .
an arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.”
– Saul Bellow, quoted in Writers at Work, edited by George Plimpton
Find your place of stillness, your prayer, your eye of the storm. Rest in it, embody it, for you are a work of art.
Nurture peace, cultivate kindness, and carry the calm.
Nature of the week:
Shadow of the Week:
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“Paths are made by walking.”
– Franz Kafka –
Walk paths of peace, cultivate kindness, and carry the calm.
Nature of the week:
Shadow of the Week (windowsill):
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Winter welcomes,
beckons,
invites us to
pause
on the brittle brink of the year,
witness
the shimmer of the season,
listen
for undertones of time passing
on icy tiptoe,
breathe
the crisp air.
Drink all of it.
Deeply.
Deeply grateful.
– kh –
Wishing you peace and grace in the new year!
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Nature of the week:
Shadow of the Week:
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“. . . feel the stars and the infinite
high and clear above you.
Then life seems
Almost enchanted after all.”
– Vincent Van Gogh –
In this busy holiday season, take time to feel the stars, sense the infinite, and rediscover the enchantment of life. Wishing you joy and peace!
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Nature of the week:
Shadow of the Week:
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