“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.”
– Annie Dillard –
Nurture peace. Cultivate kindness. Carry the calm.
Nature of the week:
Shadow of the Week:
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Old Pond
Frogs jumped in
Sound of water.
– Basho –
(translator, Lafcadio Hearn)
Pause.
Shoulders and hands relax.
Listen.
Listen past the noise
to sounds of wind, water,
bugs, birdsong,
church bell, distant train,
your own deep breath
drifting in and out.
Listen to sounds of peace.
Calm your soul.
Nurture peace. Cultivate kindness. Carry the calm.
Nature of the week:
Shadow of the Week:
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“Arching grasses come one by one;
seeds come flying on downy wings,
silent as fate,
to give life’s dearest beauty for the ashes of art;
and strong evergreen arms
laden with ferns and tillandsia drapery
are spread over all –
Life at work everywhere.”
– John Muir –
Nurture peace. Cultivate kindness. Carry the calm.
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“If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come.”
Chinese proverb
Nurture peace. Cultivate kindness. Carry the calm.
Nature of the week:
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What our hearts hold will, in the end, hold us.
– kh –
Hold kindness. Hold gratitude. Hold peace.
And carry that calm. The world needs it.
Nature of the week:
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“On blue summer evenings I’ll go down the pathways
Pricked by the grain, crushing the tender grass –
Dreaming, I’ll feel its coolness on my feet.
I’ll let the wind bathe my bare head.
I won’t talk at all, I won’t think about anything.
But infinite love will rise in my soul . . .”
– Arthur Rimbaud –
Nurture peace. Cultivate kindness. Carry the calm.
Nature of the week:
Shadow of the Week:
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“We have to unlearn hurrying.”
Nurture peace. Cultivate kindness. Carry the calm.
Nature of the week:
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“The forest will answer you in the way you call to it.”
– Finnish proverb –
Nurture peace. Cultivate kindness. Carry the calm.
Nature of the week – a bee loudly buzzing as it enjoys crape myrtle:
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“The poetry of earth is never dead:
When all the birds are faint with the hot sun,
And hide in cooling trees, a voice will run
From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead;
That is the Grasshopper’s – he takes the lead
In summer luxury, – he has never done
With his delights; for when tired out with fun
He rests at ease beneath some pleasant weed.”
– John Keats –
“On the Grasshopper and Cricket”
My young grandson and I spend time each week listening to the summer hummers and buzzers in the trees and the grass – cicadas, grasshoppers, bees. Take a moment to listen to the sounds of summer – bugs, birds, water splashing from a garden hose, children at play, even the whir of an air conditioner. Let the sounds of summer refresh your spirit. Nurture peace. Cultivate kindness. Carry the calm.
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“Stands the Sun so close and mighty –
That our Minds are hot.”
– Emily Dickinson –
Years ago, a slogan for Secret deodorant advertised being “cool, calm, and collected.” I wish that for you (not the deodorant but the sentiment) this week. Pause. Take a deep breath. Stay cool, calm, and collected. Nurture peace. Cultivate kindness. Carry the calm. (And remember to wear sunscreen.)
Nature of the week – from last month’s trip to Arizona:
Shadow of the Week:
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