“You are a light. You are the light. Never let anyone— any person or any force — dampen, dim, or diminish your light.”
— John Lewis
With respect and honor to the legacy of Representative John Lewis.
Category Archives: Sweet Breathing
Questing and Resting
“The psyches and souls of women also have their own cycles and seasons of doing and solitude, running and staying, being involved and being removed, questing and resting, creating and incubating, being of the world and returning to the soul-place.”-Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Not In Words
“However much you knock at nature’s door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.”
-Ivan Turgenev
One Wild and Precious Life
“We were not meant to live shallow lives, pocked by meaningless routines and the secondary satisfactions of happy hour. We are the inheritors of an amazing lineage, rippling with memories of life lived intimately with bison and gazelle, raven and the night sky.We are designed to encounter this life with amazement and wonder, not resignation and endurance. This is at the very heart of our grief and sorrow.The dream of full-throated living, woven into our very being, has often been forgotten and neglected, replaced by a societal fiction of productivity and material gain. No wonder we seek distractions.Every sorrow we carry extends from the absence of what we require to stay engaged in this “one wild and precious life”.-Francis Weller
Magic Exists
Magic exists. Who can doubt it, when there are rainbows and wildflowers, the music of the wind and the silence of the stars? Anyone who has loved has been touched by magic. It is such a simple and such an extraordinary part of the lives we live.”
-Nora Roberts
Look Again
“If everything around you seems dark,
Look again,
You may be the light.”-Rumi
Observe, Learn, Grow & Love
“We are all visitors
to this time,
this place.
We are just passing through.Our purpose here is to observe,
to learn, to grow
to love….and then,
we return home.”— Aboriginal proverb
Gardening Grace
“Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.”
-May Sarton
Solstice
This summer solstice has been an embrace, an opening, a huge release and a tremendous expansion – inner and outer. What a gift!
Mother Earth in her wisdom, in her sustaining and nurturing power and love, is as ever, guiding, comforting, and expressing beauty in myriad ways.
The wild roses at home are radiating wonder holding rain drops as precious gifts.
It is all a gift to me.
Happy Summer Solstice!
“I too have known loneliness.
I too have known what it is to feel
misunderstood,
rejected, and suddenly
not at all beautiful.
Oh, mother earth,
your comfort is great, your arms never withhold.
It has saved my life to know this.
Your rivers flowing, your roses opening in the morning….”-Mary Oliver
Simple Religion
“This is my simple religion. No need for temples. No need for complicated philosophy. Nature, Your own mind, Your own heart is the Temple. Your philosophy is simple kindness.”
-Dalai Lama XIV
