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Aug 2

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Emerging Fullness

“When an incidental color or a random fragrance takes possession of our imagination, we can unexpectedly blossom into a new entity as it gives us wings and enlightens our horizon, just like canary birds that feel stimulated and start singing as soon as they sense the radiance of the sun through the reflection of the skylight.”
― Erik Pevernagie

“Beauty isn’t all about just nice loveliness. Beauty is about more rounded, substantial becoming. So I think beauty in that sense is about an emerging fullness, a greater sense of grace and elegance, a deeper sense of depth, and also a kind of homecoming for the enriched memory of your unfolding life.” – John O’Donohue

Captured by radiance
Stunned by beauty
Pollinating in sweetness
Rising yeast to warm bread
Work of waiting, gazing, reverence
Discipline of restoration
Ebb and flow, cup filled, emptied to be filled again
Unfolding life in ordinary days
Mother of presence
Thin spaces and places
Of joy, awe, wonder

“if you take time not as calendar product but as actually the parent or mother of presence, then you see that, in the world of spirit, time behaves differently” – John O’Donohue

Jul 30

Beauty Unfolding in This Very Day

“Peace is always beautiful.” – Walt Whitman

“Every morning there are flowers of potentials. Your thoughts and interactions give them shape and reality.”― Amit Ray, Peace Bliss Beauty and Truth

Fresh eyes
New day
Summer beauty ablaze, unfolding everywhere
Take the slow cut
Look up and around
Seek peace
It will find you
In the slowing and savoring
Beauty unfolding in this very day
Do not miss the show.

“Beauty awakens the soul to act.” – Dante Alighieri

Jul 14

Today’s Path

“The willingness to consider possibility requires a tolerance of uncertainty.”― Rachel Naomi Remen

“Surrendering the need for an explanation represents a profound act of personal transformation.”― Caroline Myss, Defy Gravity: Healing Beyond the Bounds of Reason

Expand by contracting
Grow by pruning
Awaken by tilling
Clear the clutter
Tune out the noise
Space
Wide margins
Blank page
Fill with fresh color, texture, beauty
New day, new beginning
Walk today’s path.

“Most of us lead far more meaningful lives than we know. Often finding meaning is not about doing things differently; it is about seeing familiar things in new ways. ”― Rachel Naomi Remen, My Grandfather’s Blessings : Stories of Strength, Refuge, and Belonging

Jul 12

How Luminous, This Day

“All things look good from far away and it is man’s eternally persistent childlike faith in the reality of that illusion that has made him the triumphant restless being he is.”― Rockwell Kent, Voyaging: Southward from the Strait of Magellan

“The bright sun shone upon us; the lake was blue under the westerly breeze, and luminous, how luminous! the whole far world of our imagination. How like a colored lens the colored present! through it we see the forward vista of our lives. Here, in the measure that the water widened in our wake and heart strings stretched to almost breaking, the golden future neared us and enfolded us, made us at last — how soon! — oblivious to all things but the glamour of adventure. And while one world diminished, narrowed and then disappeared, before us a new world unrolled and neared us to display itself. Who can deny the human soul its everlasting need to make the unknown known; not for the sake of knowing, not to inform itself or be informed or wise, but for the need to exercise the need to know? What is that need but the imagination’s hunger for the new and raw materials of its creative trade? Of things and facts assured to us and known we’ve got to make the best, and live with it. That humdrum is the price of living. We live for those fantastic and unreal moments of beauty which our thoughts may build upon the passing panorama of experience.”― Rockwell Kent, N by E

Colored lens
Colored presence
Attention
Wonder
Awe
Cup full, overflowing
Witness, partake, allow
Let peace in

“Most good things have been said far too many times and just need to be lived.”― Shane Claiborne

Jul 11

Grace of Fresh Eyes

“Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.”― Confucious

“Life is grace. Sleep is forgiveness. The night absolves. Darkness wipes the slate clean, not spotless to be sure, but clean enough for another day’s chalking.”― Frederick Buechner, The Alphabet of Grace

Another day’s chalking.
Canvas to paint.
Beauty to be seen, to be made.
Grace in this day, a plenty.
It’s there.
Inside and out.
Fresh eyes required.

“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.”― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson’s Essays

Jul 9

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Simple Beautiful Joy

“Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.” – Henry David Thoreau

“All good things are wild and free.” – Henry David Thoreau

Joy
Beauty
Gratitude
Every
Single
Day
On the ground you stand
In the air you breathe
Wild. Free. Simplify

“Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.” – Henry David Thoreau

Jul 6

Far More Wonderful

“the sunflowers themselves far more wonderful than any words about them.”― Mary Oliver, Upstream: Selected Essays

“The subjects that stir the heart are not so many, after all, and they do not change.”― Mary Oliver, A Poetry Handbook

To see beauty, drink it in
Before us, each day
Front and center
Awaiting our attention, tending
Pause in awe
Distracted with wonder
Delayed with joy
Overflowing with gratitude
Leap into it, both feet.

“to leap into it and hold on, connecting everything,”― Mary Oliver, House of Light

Jun 12

Full-Blown Beauty

“Grace is a power that comes in and transforms a moment into something better.”― Caroline Myss

“That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart, and made it a hundred times more beautiful.”― Rumi

Lightness of spirit.
Laughter in full-blown beauty.
Beneath your feet.
Above, below, all around.
Mostly within.
Awaiting your arrival.
Attention and noticing.
Pausing and rooting.
Grace, peace, joy.

“If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments.”― Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Jun 9

Singleness of Eye

“Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day- like writing a poem or saying a prayer.”― Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Gift from the Sea

“…I want first of all – in fact, as an end to these other desires – to be at peace with myself. I want a singleness of eye, a purity of intention, a central core to my life that will enable me to carry out these obligations and activities as well as I can. I want, in fact – to borrow from the language of the saints -to live ‘in grace’ as much of the time as possible. I am not using this term in a strictly theological sense. By grace I mean an inner harmony, essentially spiritual, which can be translated into outward harmony…”― Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Summer
Sea
Sun
Slowing
Savoring
Softening
Witnessing
Entering
Deepening
Widening
Rising
Releasing
Still points
Pathways to peace, awe, wonder, joy
Take the journey.

“This is what one thirsts for, I realize, after the smallness of the day, of work, of details, of intimacy – even of communication, one thirsts for the magnitude and universality of a night full of stars, pouring into one like a fresh tide.”― Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Gift from the Sea

May 5

Shout of Joy!

“Inside everyone is a great shout of joy waiting to be born.”― David Whyte, River Flow: New & Selected Poems

Everything is Waiting for You by David Whyte

“Your great mistake is to act the drama
as if you were alone. As if life
were a progressive and cunning crime
with no witness to the tiny hidden
transgressions. To feel abandoned is to deny
the intimacy of your surroundings. Surely,
even you, at times, have felt the grand array;
the swelling presence, and the chorus, crowding
out your solo voice. You must note
the way the soap dish enables you,
or the window latch grants you freedom.
Alertness is the hidden discipline of familiarity.
The stairs are your mentor of things
to come, the doors have always been there
to frighten you and invite you,
and the tiny speaker in the phone
is your dream-ladder to divinity.

Put down the weight of your aloneness and ease into the
conversation. The kettle is singing
even as it pours you a drink, the cooking pots
have left their arrogant aloofness and
seen the good in you at last. All the birds
and creatures of the world are unutterably
themselves. Everything is waiting for you.” – David Whyte

Poetry of presence, beginnings, spring bloom
Everything is waiting for you to notice
Coming alive
Bursting with color
Dance with wonder, awe and beauty
Woven through this very day

“Colors are the smiles of nature.” – Leigh Hunt

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