“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.”
Tag Archives: Nature
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
One of Degree, Not of Kind
“The difference in mind between man and the higher animals, great as it is, certainly is one of degree and not of kind.”
-Charles Darwin
Bears are not companions of men, but children of God, and His charity is broad enough for both. Yet bears are made of the same dust as we, and breathe the same winds and drink of the same waters. A bear’s days are warmed by the same sun, his dwellings are overdomed by the same blue sky, and his life turns and ebbs with heart-pulsings like ours and was poured from the same fountain…”
– John Muir
Understanding the Language of Nature
The language that nature uses, how do we touch it, know it? It surely exists on a plane that some access readily, but most humans aren’t close enough to understand.
I love this time lapse video showing the loveliness of mushrooms sprouting from the forest floor, their umbrellas unfurling majestically. It speaks to me, but the language is clearer, louder when I’m the forest itself, listening…. listening.
Sunlight in a Wood…
“Any patch of sunlight in a wood will show you something about the sun which you could never get from reading books on astronomy. These pure and spontaneous pleasures are ‘patches of Godlight’ in the woods of our experience.”
~ C.S. Lewis
Sacred Water
“Water is life’s matter and matrix, mother and medium.
There is no life without water.”
-Albert Szent-Gyorgyl
Sacred water, this precious gift holds our very existence.
Sweet life itself is not possible without water.
“In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans;
in one aspect of You are found all the aspects of existence.”
-Kahlil Gibran
I stand with the Standing Rock Sioux