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Jul 18

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All the Colors Ablaze

“Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Life is a painting, and you are the artist. You have on your palette all the colors in the spectrum – the same ones available to Michaelangelo and DaVinci.” – Paul J. Meyer

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

Summer is ablaze with color, growth, beauty.
Bursting with life and vibrancy.
Be interrupted.
Wake up.
Pay rapt attention.
Slow down, really, slow down.
Look up and around.
Steep in the pause.
Turtle pace.
Soak it all in, all of it.
Long summer days overflowing.
Float.
Awe, wonder, joy woven in all days.

“There are infinite shadings of light and shadows and colors… it’s an extraordinarily subtle language. Figuring out how to speak that language is a lifetime job.” – Conrad Hall

“Nobody sees a flower – really – it is so small it takes time – we haven’t time – and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.”― Georgia O’Keeffe

Jan 18

Enchantment

“Enchantment lies in everyday moments if you are observant.”― Amy Leigh Mercree

“In fact I think I prefer a strange tangle of both, an idea with porous boundaries that keeps me guessing. We are not offered any definite conclusions, only the continuing quest. Certainties harden us, and eventually we come to defend them as if the world can’t contain a multiplicity of views. We are better off staying soft. It gives us room to grow and absorb, to make space for all the other glorious notions that will keep coming at us across a lifetime.”― Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age

May you soften, not harden.
Forgive, not carry the weight of resentment.
Praise, not be ungrateful for blessings overflowing that reside next to missing things too.
Wait, not rush into wrong decisions from impatience.
Act, not wait for perfection or the exact path, go off trail, compass rather than precise map.
Be kind, to self and to others, a smile, an embrace.
Empathetic, not judge and assume. Hold a hand with no advice. Be present.
Include, invite and extend belonging, it’s a lonely world. We need each other.
Widen and deepen, center to circumference, it’s a big world awaiting discovery and attention.
May color, beauty, awe, enthusiasm, delight and wonder bloom enchantment in your garden of today.

“Enchantment arises on the threshold between human activity and nature’s presence. It is always a liminal phenomenon, a momentary relationship, made of the right arrangement on stars and planets and elaborate with art by human consciousness.”― Thomas Moore

Aug 8

As You Will

“From a little spark may burst a flame.” – Dante Alighieri

“Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.” – Thomas Carlyle

The world is bursting with color.
The air fresh with a soft breeze.
The canvas of summer ablaze.
Find rest, let rest find you.
Absorb the colors, and the sun.
Shift your attention.
Delight in this season.
Seize this time.
Color. Beauty. Rest.

“Everyday can be extraordinary
And ripe,
Like a flower burst,
If the will is there.”― Scott Hastie

Mar 22

Hues, Shades, Tints

“The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.” – Marcus Aurelius

An important part of getting through is making plans for the other side. This weekend, I picked up paint swatches to start looking at color options for the first floor of my house. While we have no idea what April will bring, I intend on planning for new things, new projects, for the promise found in new.

It is amazing the wide variation of colors that are available. At well-timed reminder of the depth, complexity and gift of color. Hues, shades, tints. The world is filled with color even though it feels a bit muted right now. We are on the cusp of Spring blooming. Be open to the symphony of color all around, especially in these moments.

“Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.” – Rainer Maria Rilke