In the darkest, meanest things
There always, always something sings.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson –
Nurture peace, cultivate kindness, and carry the calm.
Nature of the week:
Shadow of the Week:
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“What lies behind us and what lies before us
are small matters compared to what lies within us.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson –
Nurture peace, cultivate kindness, and carry the calm.
Wishing you love, joy, and peace in the new year!
Nature of the week:
Shadow of the Week:
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“The beauty that shimmers in the yellow afternoons of October,
who ever could clutch it?”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Nature” –
Nurture peace, cultivate kindness, and carry the calm.
Nature of the week:
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 – 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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“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.
Nature of the week:
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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“[E]very withered stem
and stubble rimed with frost,
contribute something
to the mute music [of winter].”
– Emerson, “Nature” –
Pause for a moment this week to enjoy stems and stubble, to listen to the shushing sound they make in the wind – or if the day is still, to discover the season’s mute music.
Nurture peace, cultivate loving kindness, and carry the calm.
Nature of the week:
Shadow of the Week:
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As the ocean surges overland this week, two thoughts:
“We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean.
But if that drop was not in the ocean,
I think the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.”
– Mother Teresa –
“The drop is a small ocean.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson –
Nurture peace, cultivate loving-kindness, and carry the calm.
Nature of the week – after the rain in Yokohama, Japan:
Shadow of the Week – roses in Texas:
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“Earth laughs in flowers.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson –
Wishing you earth’s laughter this week!
Nurture peace, cultivate loving kindness, and carry the calm.
Nature of the week:
Shadow of the Week:
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