“What we choose to carry, in the end carries us.”
– kh –
Choose kindness, choose gratitude, choose peace.
Nature of the week:
Shadow of the Week:
If you want me to send these thoughts to your email each Sunday, simply sign up on the right.
Text and photos © 2022 Karyn Henley. All rights reserved.
“There’s a sense of wonder, a joy, a gratitude that can only be accessed by returning to the childlike practice of experiencing the moment with as many senses as possible. There’s a peace that can only be found by lingering and noticing. If you’re in the habit, it doesn’t take long, just a pause really, a breath or two to take in the moment, to be inspired, to be enriched, to go out to go in.” – kh, Linger: 365 Days of Peaceful Pauses
Nurture peace, cultivate kindness, and carry the calm.
Nature of the week:
Shadow of the Week:
If you want me to send these thoughts to your email each Sunday, simply sign up on the right.
Text and photos © 2022 Karyn Henley. All rights reserved.
Nature invites me to linger and fills me with wonder.
And wonder, I believe, is a kind of gratitude.
– kh, Linger –
Wonder and gratitude nurture peace, so as always: Nurture peace, cultivate kindness, and carry the calm.
And Happy Thanksgiving to friends and family in the U.S.!
Nature of the week:
Shadow of the Week (It’s a triple shadow.):
If you want me to send these thoughts to your email each Sunday, simply sign up on the right.
Text and photos © 2021 Karyn Henley. All rights reserved.
The energy of this week lost some of its spark at the death of a lovely friend, a good, creative, and generous soul. I’m grateful for the community we shared at Art and Soul Nashville, where she was—and her memory continues to be—a joyful, hopeful part of the welcome, the creativity, the encouragement, and the peace.
Here are some thoughts on peace that I wrote a few weeks ago:
For Peace
I’m grateful for the gentle souls
who hear peace,
hold it in their hearts and
hum it into mine.
I’m grateful for the fiery souls
who envision peace,
sing it out loud and
shout its possibilities into the world.
I’m grateful for souls both gentle and fiery
who know peace is both deep and wide,
sometimes the gift of a whispered breeze,
sometimes a hard-won shelter in storm.
I pray for the holding,
the hoping,
the healing
of peace.
– KH
Nature of the week:
Shadow of the Week – short cat, long shadow:
If you want me to send these thoughts to your email each Sunday, simply sign up on the right.
Text and photos © 2021 Karyn Henley. All rights reserved.
“Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps the singing bird will come.”
– Chinese proverb –
In this season when our thoughts focus on gratitude, I’m thankful for each of you, for the grace, goodness, wonder, and hope that fills your hearts. Nurture peace within yourself, cultivate kindness toward others, and carry that calm wherever your life journey takes you.
Nature of the week:
Shadow of the Week – Looks like the profile of a rabbit to me:
If you want me to send these thoughts to your email each Sunday, simply sign up on the right.
Text and photos © 2020 Karyn Henley. All rights reserved.
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:
Shadow of the Week:
If you want me to send these thoughts to your email each Sunday, simply sign up on the right.
Text and photos © 2019 Karyn Henley. All rights reserved.
Winter welcomes,
beckons,
invites us to
pause
on the brittle brink of the year,
witness
the shimmer of the season,
listen
for undertones of time passing
on icy tiptoe,
breathe
the crisp air.
Drink all of it.
Deeply.
Deeply grateful.
– kh –
Wishing you peace and grace in the new year!
Nurture peace, cultivate kindness, and carry the calm.
Nature of the week:
Shadow of the Week:
If you want me to send these thoughts to your email each Sunday, simply sign up on the right.
Text and photos © 2018 Karyn Henley. All rights reserved.
“[G]ratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.”
– G.K. Chesterton –
Wishing you happiness doubled by wonder this week.
Nurture peace, cultivate kindness, and carry the calm.
Nature of the week:
Shadow of the Week:
If you want me to send these thoughts to your email each Sunday, simply sign up on the right.
For my longer posts on the art of noticing, link here.
Text and photos © 2018 Karyn Henley. All rights reserved.
“One single grateful thought raised to heaven is the most perfect prayer.”
– G.E. Lessing –
Nurture peace, cultivate kindness, and carry the calm.
Nature of the week: This looks like a perfect prayer to me.
Shadow of the Week:
If you want me to send these thoughts to your email each Sunday, simply sign up on the right.
For my posts on life and the wonder of it all, link here.
Text and photos © 2018 Karyn Henley. All rights reserved.
“It is sometimes the mystery of death
that brings one to a consciousness
of the still greater mystery of life.”
– Kate Douglas Wiggin
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
I’m in Texas this week with my Dad and my three younger sisters at my mother’s hospital bedside in ICU as she breathes with the help of oxygen. Mother is 90 years old, and from her hospital bed, she has been writing her good-byes on sheets of paper on a clipboard – amazingly, without looking at pen or paper. We don’t know what will happen from one moment to the next, but we do know that each breath is precious.
Pay deep attention. Breathe in the mystery of life; breathe out gratitude. Nurture peace, cultivate loving kindness, and carry the calm.
Nature of the week:
Shadow of the Week:
If you want me to send these thoughts to your email each Sunday, simply sign up on the right.
For my posts on life, faith, and the mystery we call God, link here.
Text and photos © 2017 Karyn Henley. All rights reserved.