“I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning to sail my ship.”
The word courage comes from Latin cor and Greek kardia. So take heart. Sail your ship. Nurture peace, cultivate kindness, and carry the calm.
Nature of the week:
Shadow of the Week:
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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.
Nature of the week:
Shadow of the Week:
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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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“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.
Nature of the week:
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“Joy, with pinions light, roves round
The gardens, or sits singing in the trees.”
– William Blake, “To Autumn” –
Look for joy. Nurture peace. Cultivate kindness. Carry the calm.
Nature of the week:
Shadow of the Week:
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“How many times have you noticed
it’s the little quiet moments in the midst of life
that seem to give the rest extra-special meaning?”
– Fred Rogers –
Notice little quiet moments. Nurture peace. Cultivate kindness. Carry the calm.
Nature of the week:
Shadow of the Week:
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I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,
And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made:
Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee;
And live alone in the bee-loud glade.
And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow
Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings;
There midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow,
And evening full of the linnet’s wings.
I will arise and go now, for always night and day
I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;
While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements grey,
I hear it in the deep heart’s core.
– W.B. Yeats –
Be still. Listen. What do you hear in your deep heart’s core?
Nurture peace. Cultivate kindness. Carry the calm.
Nature of the week:
Shadow of the Week – books on an end table made a profile:
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“If you’re walking down the right path
and you’re willing to keep on walking,
eventually you’ll make progress.”
– Barack Obama –
Love, gratitude, kindness, goodness, grace, mercy … that’s the path. One step at a time. Keep walking.
Nurture peace. Cultivate kindness. And carry the calm.
Nature of the week:
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Heavy is the green of the fields, heavy the trees
With foliage hang, drowsy the hum of bees
In the thund’rous air: the crowded scents lie low:
Thro’ tangle of weeds the river runs slow.
– Robert Bridges –
“July” from Basil and Edward
It has been a heavy, drowsy week, sultry with humidity. Gardens hummed with bees and hummingbird wings. Lazy breezes drifted past, full of fragrant scents from nodding blossoms. Then grumbling thunderstorms drenched it all until the sun broke through, stirring up the humidity again. Nature nudges us to pay attention with all our senses, and when we do, she rewards us with wonder and deep peace.
When you find that peace, nurture it. Cultivate kindness. And carry the calm.
Nature of the week:
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“I go to books and to nature as a bee goes to the flower,
for a nectar that I can make into my own honey.”
– John Burroughs –
Here’s hoping that you find ways to make honey of your life and that others will taste its sweetness.
Nurture peace. Cultivate kindness. Carry the calm.
Nature of the week—my neighbor’s ginger:
Shadow of the Week:
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