“For all that has been,
Thank you.
For all that is to come,
Yes!”
-Dag Hammarskjol
Tag Archives: Nature
The Soul Felt Its Worth
May your soul feel supreme peace as this beautiful season of Love & Light unfolds.
“And the soul felt its worth”
-O Holy Night, Adolphe Adam/Placide Cappeau
Sweet Solstice
Ahhh… Winter.
Now the sweet season of introspection, quiet, peaceful snowscapes, good books, long nights, welcoming fires, warm hearths, cozy afternoons, wanderings, deepening, dreaming, awakening…
We celebrate this longest night with a glad heart, knowing that with each subsequent day, the sun will grace us with ever more moments of light. Each day more light.
May our lives, our very souls know this too; each day more light!
O Winter ruler of the inverted year… I crown thee king of intimate delights, fireside enjoyments, home-born happiness, and all the comforts that the lowly roof of undisturbed retirement, and the hours of long uninterrupted evening, know.”
-William Cowper
“Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius.”
– Pietro Aretino
“Winter is not a season, it’s a celebration.”
– Anamika Mishra
Your Place in the Family
Wild Geese, Mary Oliver
“You do have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
For a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting —
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.”
Mary Oliver reads “Wild Geese”
https://video.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?fr=yhs-mozilla-001&hsimp=yhs-001&hspart=mozilla&p=you+tube+wild+geese+mary+oliver#id=3&vid=afb25b9ce445c4e85ca9f8849cdd980a&action=click
It Matters
“it matters what voices you listen to, it matters what books you read, it matters what you buy, what you do with your money if you have it and how you interact with those who don’t have it, it matters who you surround yourself with and why, it matters where you put your life labor, it matters where you put your love labor, it matters where you put your creative labor and what you create and why, it matters what you let into your life and what you are willing to live with, it matters what your relationship to the planet is or isn’t, it matters how you respond to danger at the door…even if it’s at your neighbor’s door.”
Inside You
“Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you.”
-Rumi
Unity
“In union there is strength.”
-Aesop
“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.”
-Helen Keller
“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends”
-Martin Luther King Jr.
Love is, as always, prevailing in the ethers that bind us. Cohesive, firm, immersed in the knowledge that we are all equal. There is no other possible outcome than that of equity for all precious humans and animals on the planet, and for the mother Earth herself.
From sunrise’s sweet pastels over the grandfather mountains to sunset’s golden colors bathing every person, rock, waterway, mountain, winged one, and animal, there is softness, sweetness, and truth.
Love will prevail. Love is prevailing.
May we all be Love Warriors, vigilant, persistent, focused, and true.
The Peace of Wild Things
“When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be.
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the dry-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.”
-Wendell Berry
The Healing Forest
Let the magic, perfect inclusion, balance, beauty and peace of the forest heal you. It is always there providing sustenance, support and Love.
(two lovely video links are listed below if you can’t get out into the forest in person)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6VXaBdOvFg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-wHq6yY2CI
Wild Nature
“There is a love of wild nature in everybody.”
-John Muir
