“Write injuries in sand, kindnesses in marble.”
– French proverb –
Nurture peace, cultivate kindness, and carry the calm.
Nature of the week:
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“The beauty that shimmers in the yellow afternoons of October,
who ever could clutch it?”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Nature” –
Nurture peace, cultivate kindness, and carry the calm.
Nature of the week:
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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.
Nurture peace, cultivate kindness, and carry the calm.
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“Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby –
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“If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it;
Every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth.”
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow –
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My heart is like a singing bird
Whose nest is in a watered shoot;
My heart is like an apple-tree
Whose boughs are bent with thickset fruit.
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“May you live every day of your life.”
– Jonathan Swift –
Nurture peace, cultivate kindness, carry the calm, and truly live each day.
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“Moments of silence are part of the music.”
– Anonymous –
In music, moments of rhythmic silence are called rests. But rest also means “peace of mind or spirit.” I wondered if the word restore had the same linguistic origin as rest, but it doesn’t. And yet they are related in a sense. Restore means to renew, rebuild, and give back, which is what rest does for us—it renews us, rebuilds our spirits, and gives back our energy. Rest, our moments of silence and peace of mind, are necessary for the rhythms of our lives. Rest is part of life’s music.
Wishing you good rest this week.
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“Nobody started it,
nobody is going to stop it.
It will talk as long as it wants, this rain.
As long as it talks I am going to listen.”
– Thomas Merton –
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On a walk at the zoo last week, I crossed a boardwalk bridge and noticed an elegant white waterlily blooming on the river below. Water lilies look as if they’re floating on the surface of the water, but they’re held in place by stems that extend under the water to a rhizome buried in the mud below. It seemed like a symbol of calm and serenity. I thought of how each of us, like a water lily, can root ourselves in the unseen, peaceful flow of life deep in our souls so that what is seen of our lives is a beautiful bloom.
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