“Art cannot rival this pomp of purple and gold.”
– Emerson –
(But I try.)
Nurture peace, cultivate kindness, and carry the calm.
Nature of the week:
Shadow of the Week:
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“I saw old Autumn in the misty morn
Stand shadowless like silence, listening
To silence.”
– Thomas Hood, “Ode: Autumn” –
Pause a moment to stand with old Autumn. Listen to silence.
Nurture peace, cultivate kindness, and carry the calm.
Nature of the week:
Shadow of the Week – cast by a decoration on a glass table:
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“If you walk by yourself, you can go fast.
If you walk with others, you can go far.”
– old proverb –
Nurture peace within yourself and among others. Worry and agitation can be contagious. But so can serenity and calm. So cultivate inner peace, carry the calm, and may you go far.
Nature of the week – a contorted Filbert – at Cheekwood Botanical Gardens:
Shadow of the Week:
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“Every night the river sings a new song.”
– Eva-Lis Wuorio –
Nature changes in subtle, quiet ways hour by hour, day in, day out. The slant of the sun, the placement of the stars, the hue of leaves, the folds of petals. And the song of flowing water. Perhaps we, too, change in subtle ways as we watch and listen with wonder.
Nurture peace, cultivate kindness, and carry the calm.
Nature of the week:
Shadow of the Week:
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“What is autumn? . . . A second spring, where every leaf is a flower.”
– Albert Camus, Le Malentendu –
Nurture peace, cultivate kindness, and carry the calm.
Nature of the week:
Shadow of the Week:
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“Those who don’t feel this Love
pulling them like a river,
those who don’t drink dawn
like a cup of spring water
or take in sunset like supper,
Those who don’t want to change,
Let them sleep.”
– Rumi –
Peace is waiting for you – and joy and wonder and goodness and grace. And Love. Don’t sleep.
Nurture peace, cultivate kindness, and carry the calm.
Nature of the week:
Shadow of the Week:
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“Deep is the silence, deep
On moon-washed apples of wonder.”
– John Drinkwater –
Sun-splashed and moon-washed, autumn is a feast for the senses and the soul. So is the deep silence of wonder.
Let yourself wonder, nurture peace, cultivate kindness, and carry the calm.
Nature of the week :
Shadow of the Week – catnip:
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“When you pray, rather let thy heart be without words
than thy words be without heart.”
– John Bunyan –
Prayer often has no words but is simply a heart silent and open and listening, searching and sensing and settling, like a child reaching out and grasping a mother’s hand. And that is more than enough. You are the prayer. Your heart is heard and loved.
Nurture peace, cultivate kindness, be the prayer, and carry the calm.
Nature of the week:
Shadow of the Week:
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As summer heads toward autumn, there’s a peaceful wonder in watching the season change.
“Nature is ever at work building and pulling down,
creating and destroying,
keeping everything whirling and flowing,
allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion,
chasing everything in endless song
out of one beautiful form into another.”
– John Muir –
Nurture peace, cultivate kindness, and carry the calm.
Nature of the week:
Shadow of the Week:
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“The warm, brooding days are full of life and thoughts of life to come,
ripening seeds with next summer in them
or a hundred summers.”
Brood has a double meaning. It means to ponder, to think deeply. It also means protecting and preparing as a hen does when she sits on her eggs or keeps her young under her wings. So the warm days of summer are for ripening fruit and “brooding” seeds. As autumn approaches, “warm, brooding days” can also be a time of thinking deeply about life.
So keep planting seeds of peace and kindness wherever you go. Brood over those seeds, for they are “full of life and thoughts of life to come.” They hold next summer in them. They hold a hundred summers. They hold the future.
Nurture peace, cultivate kindness, and carry the calm.
Nature of the week:
Shadow of the Week:
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