Pastures Still

“As you get older, you want less from the world; you just want to experience it. Any barriers to feeling emotions get dismantled. And ordinary things become beautifully poetic.” – Richard Linklater

“All things therefore are charged with love, are charged with God and if we knew how to touch them give off sparks and take fire, yield drops and flow, ring and tell of him.”― Gerard Manley Hopkins, The Letters of Gerard Manley Hopkins to Robert Bridges

May we hone our senses sharp to see the bigness in small moments while we are in them.
To live twice and then some.
In the moment and memory.
From doing, busy, checklist to being, slowness and connection.
A shift in perspective.
Present and awake.
May gratitude pull up a chair next to you today to chat awhile.
Pastures still, filled with music of praise.

“ELECTED Silence, sing to me
And beat upon my whorlèd ear,
Pipe me to pastures still and be
The music that I care to hear.”
― Gerard Manley Hopkins, Poems and Prose