“Adopt the pace of Nature. Her secret is patience.”
Nurture peace, cultivate kindness, and carry the calm.
Nature of the week – from the window at my desk, a winter sky:
Shadow of the Week – from picnic tables at the zoo on a chilly day:
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“I go to books and to nature as a bee goes to the flower,
for a nectar that I can make into my own honey.”
– John Burroughs –
Here’s hoping that you find ways to make honey of your life and that others will taste its sweetness.
Nurture peace. Cultivate kindness. Carry the calm.
Nature of the week—my neighbor’s ginger:
Shadow of the Week:
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“With hues on hues
expression cannot paint
The breath of Nature,
And her endless bloom.”
– James Thomson –
“I go to nature to be soothed and healed,
and to have my senses put in order.”
– John Burroughs –
Nurture peace. Cultivate kindness. Carry the calm.
Nature of the week:
Shadow of the Week:
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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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“If the simple things in nature
have a message that you understand,
rejoice, for your soul is alive.”
– Eleonora Duse –
Nurture peace. Cultivate kindness. Carry the calm.
Nature of the week:
Shadow of the Week:
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“The winds wander,
the snow and rain and dew fall,
the earth whirls –
all but to prosper a poor lush violet.”
– John Muir –
. . . and all to prosper you.
Nurture peace, cultivate kindness, and carry the calm.
Nature of the week – a wild violet:
Shadow of the Week:
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“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.”
Nurture peace, cultivate kindness, and carry the calm.
Nature of the week – trillium:
Shadow of the Week:
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“Every day opens and closes like a flower,
noiseless, effortless.
Divine peace glows on all the majestic landscape,
like the silent enthusiastic joy
that sometimes transfigures a noble human face.”
– John Muir –
“Silent enthusiastic joy.” That’s what I often see in Thursday night art class at Art and Soul. Music plays softly in the background as my friends and I work independently but side by side, each of us creating art that comes from our souls and nourishes our souls. It’s then that I often see in my friends’ faces a “silent enthusiastic joy.”
But I picture other faces as well – my dad and sisters laughing uproariously in enthusiastic joy – delightfully not silent. Then there are my friends in the church choir as we listen to our director in silent, enthusiastic joy – which transforms into the joy of song. Whose faces do you picture when you think of enthusiastic joy – silent or not?
Ralph Waldo Emerson famously said, “Earth laughs in flowers.” In our part of the world, nature is now in bloom. As each day opens and closes like a flower, I wish you the divine peace that comes with earth’s joy and laughter. Happy Spring!
Nurture peace, cultivate kindness, and carry the calm.
Nature of the week – peach blossoms:
Shadow of the Week – stems in a back-porch pot:
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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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“Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves.” – John Muir
Nurture peace, cultivate kindness, and carry the calm.
Nature of the week:
Shadow of the Week:
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