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November – Like Properly Aged Cider

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“We seldom think of November in terms of beauty or any other specially satisfying tribute. November is simply that interval between colorful and dark December. Then, nearly every year, come a few November days of clear, crisp weather that makes one wonder why November seldom gets its due.
There is the November sky, clean of summer dust, blown clear this day of the urban smog that so often hazes autumn….
There is the touch of November in the air, chill enough to have a slight tang, like properly aged cider. Not air that caresses, nor yet air that nips. Air that makes one breathe deeply and think of spring water and walk briskly.”

-Hal Borland

“In November, the trees are standing all sticks and bones. Without their leaves, how lovely they are, spreading their arms like dancers. They know it is time to be still.”

-Cynthia Rylant

 

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You are Known

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“You are seen.

You are known.

You are loved.

-SARK

“Love isn’t concerned with being fluffy and good looking- love moves endlessly on in indelible waves of wonderment, and I am astonished by its endless surging onward.”

-SARK

There are so many ways to Love!  So many incarnations, expressions, tapestries, layers, emotions…

For me reading SARK’s deeply felt words today, “multiplying the love exponentially”, I felt my love for the wild ones rise up, vividly and passionately. The emotion was rich, almost overwhelming.  Beautiful.  It felt right to use these images of elk, for the post.  Yes, I see you, I know you and I love you.  Especially as hunting season gets underway here in Montana, there too is a place for this reverence and awe.  There is wonder in their wildness, their families, their sovereignty to live wild and free.

If you don’t already, follow SARK as she re-embraces Love after devastating loss.  For the pain there are no words for, she has found them.  Eloquently.  And still, after some time for deep grief, she “dated the world” and then allowed her heart to evolve again into opening to all of the universe’s gifts. And there, waiting, where it had always been, she found LOVE.

Here’s a sample of SARK’s writing about her astonished reawakened Love.  Subscribe for her always inspirational posts. Highly recommended!  As Maya Angelou says, “We in this world, and this weary world itself, have a great gaping need for SARK.” Indeed.

http://planetsark.com/astonished/?utm_source=ONTRAPORT-email-broadcast&utm_medium=ONTRAPORT-email-broadcast&utm_term=&utm_content=Astonished&utm_campaign=10282018

And as you likely know SARK periodically, in addition to these inspirational posts, offers empowering workshops and writing retreats (on line and in person).

Stay “astonished ya’ll!  Love is always there.  Always. In All Ways.

Sweet Breathing

Nourishing Calm

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“In our time, in our civilization, sitting and doing nothing is considered either to be a luxury or a waste of time. But sitting can produce the most nourishing calm and joy and we can all afford some time to sit. How wonderful to sit and do nothing.”

– Thich Nhat Hanh

For me, especially to sit and do nothing in Nature easily produces that state of nourishing calm that Thich Nhat Hanh’s quote describes.  Nature’s abundance and abiding wisdom is found in this quiet calm of sitting.  It is a meditation, it is connection, and it is joy; certainly it is joy.

The wonderfulness of sitting and doing nothing in nature is so fulfilling, so very full and rich.

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Blind Loving Silence

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“The lamps are different,
But the Light is the same.
So many garish lamps in the dying brain’s lamp-show,
Forget about them.
Concentrate on the essence, concentrate on the Light.
In lucid bliss, calmly smoking off its own holy fire,
The Light streams towards you from all things,
All people, all possible permutations of good, evil, thought, passion.
The lamps are different,
but the Light is the same.
One matter, one energy, one Light, one Light-mind,
Endlessly emanating all things.
One turning and burning diamond,
One, one, one.
Ground yourself, strip yourself down,
To blind loving silence.
Stay there, until you see
You are gazing at the Light
With its own ageless eyes.”

-Rumi

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No Ordinary Life – Happy First Day of Fall!

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“She lost herself in the trees among the ever-changing leaves.

She wept beneath the wild sky as stars told stories of ancient times.

The flowers grew toward her light, the river called her name at night.

She could not lead an ordinary life…

with the mysteries of the universe hidden in her eyes.”

-Christy Ann Martine

Light Filled Autumn Leaves