“In the stillness of the quiet, if we listen, we can hear the whisper of the heart giving strength to weakness, courage to fear, hope to despair.” – Howard Thurman
Nature of the week:
Shadow of the Week:
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“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:
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When the music changes,
so does the dance.
– African proverb –
Maybe it’s time to change the dance.
Swing, sway, stomp,
make it wild,
make it wistful,
make it wondrous,
make it wishful,
make it fully yours,
keeping time with the music
that comes from the depths of your heart
and sings of goodness and grace,
love and hope.
Nurture peace. Cultivate kindness. Carry the calm.
Nature of the week:
Shadow of the Week – toy dinosaur (my grandson visited this week!):
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“Out of the dusk of distant woods
All round the April skies
Blossom-white, the cherry trees
Like lovely apparitions rise. . .
Like silent promises of peace,
Like hope that blossoms in the heart.”
– Laurence Binyon, “Cherry Trees” –
Nurture peace. Cultivate kindness. Carry the calm.
Nature of the week – cherry blossoms:
Shadow of the Week:
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…Winter still is in the air,
And the earth troubled, and the branches bare,
Yet down the fields to-day I saw her pass –
The spring – her feet went shining through the grass…
she has whispered to the crocus leaves…
She would not stay, her season is not yet,
But she has reawakened, and has set
The sap of all the world astir…
– John Drinkwater, “The Miracle” –
Listen for spring’s whisper, and breathe deeply of the quiet hope of a world astir.
Nurture peace. Cultivate kindness. Carry the calm.
Nature of the week:
Shadow of the Week:
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“They will come again, the leaf and the flower . . .
Nothing is certain, only the certain spring.”
– Laurence Binyon –
“The Burning of the Leaves”
Take courage. Nurture peace. Cultivate kindness. And carry the calm.
Nature of the week – a rose in a street flower market in Hanoi:
Shadow of the Week:
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A special breakfast for you today:
A plate of love,
A bowl of peace,
A spoon of kindness,
A fork of caring,
A glass of hope.
– based on a Vietnamese blessing –
Nurture peace. Cultivate kindness. Carry the calm.
Nature of the week – a lotus from my visit to Vietnam/Cambodia:
Shadow of the Week (stretching it to a silhouette) – sunrise at Angkor Wat:
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“Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come.”
Hold on to hope. Nurture peace. Cultivate kindness. Carry the calm.
Nature of the week – blooming in this warm-weather week of December:
Shadow of the Week:
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“To be human is to be able to grasp hope,
to hold it tightly to the chest,
to let its nectar seep into our hearts
and give us peace.”
Nurture peace by grasping hope, holding it tightly, and letting it seep into your heart.
Cultivate kindness and carry the calm.
Nature of the week:
Shadow of the Week:
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“We shall find peace,
We shall hear angels,
We shall see the sky
Sparkling with diamonds.”
– Anton Chekhov –
I think it’s possible to carry within us a sense of calm so strong that the world knows hope and peace simply because of our presence and so powerful that every physical space we step into pulses with hope and peace simply because we’re there. So find peace, hear angels, see the sky sparkling with diamonds . . . nurture peace, cultivate kindness, and carry the calm. We are the pulse of hope and peace.
Nature of the week – I meant to photograph the interior of a blossom – and my new close-up lens focused on an ant:
Shadow of the Week:
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