Broken Dreams, Beautiful World

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“Therefore, be at peace with God, whatever you conceive God to be, and whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life, keep peace with your soul. With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world.” – Max Ehrmann, “Desiderata”

Nature of the week:

Shadow of the Week – shadows and reflections in a double paned window:

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A Doorway to a New World

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“Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul. Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.” – John Muir

Nature of the week:

Shadow of the Week:

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Welcome, Spring!

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Look how after the devastating winter

the new blossoms have covered the thorns,

look how tall the cypress has risen in glory.

Spirit and water have graced the rose garden

Enhancing its beauty.

What a blessed companionship!

– Rumi –

Nature of the week:

Shadow of the Week – a bird ornament on top of a shelf of plants:

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Windows Open to Beauty

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“Let there be windows to your soul,

that all the glory of the world may beautify it.”

– Ella Wheeler Wilcox –

Nurture peace. Cultivate kindness. Carry the calm.

Nature of the week:

Shadow of the Week:

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Infinite Beauty

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“Nature is painting for us,

day after day,

pictures of infinite beauty.”

– John Ruskin –

Pause and see the beauty nature is painting—and linger to smell, taste, listen, and touch infinity. Nurture peace. Cultivate kindness. Carry the calm.

Nature of the week:

Shadow of the Week:

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Finding Beauty – and Peace

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“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful,

we must carry it with us or we find it not.”

– Ralph Waldo Emerson –

The same could be said about peace. Nurture peace. Cultivate kindness. Carry the calm.

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Shadow of the Week:

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The Shadow of God

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“Love beauty;

it is the shadow of God on the universe.”

– Gabriela Mistral –

Nurture peace. Cultivate kindness. Carry the calm.

Nature of the week – comfrey blooms:

Shadow of the Week:

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Everyday Magic

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“The world is full of magic things,

patiently waiting

for our senses to grow sharper.”

– W.B. Yeats –

A budding rose, a bird calling to its mate, the pink clouds of sunset, the first star of evening – it only takes a moment to sharpen our senses to this everyday magic, to pause and actually taste our food, smell the morning air, feel the breeze, hear the birdsong, and see the beauty in the world around us – to rediscover the magic things.

Nurture peace, cultivate kindness, enjoy the magic, and carry the calm.

Nature of the week: