Aug 4
“Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.”― Sam Keen
“While we wait for life, life passes.” – Seneca
Live while life is happening.
Now.
In the waiting.
In the rushing.
In the resting.
In the healing.
In work.
In play.
In all seasons.
Someday is today.
Engage. Participate. Affirm.
“The hero’s achievement, in short, is to affirm life.”― Carol S. Pearson
“At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.” – Jean Houston
“We all have the extraordinary coded within us, waiting to be released”― Jean Houston
Be good to yourself.
Be good to others.
Allow laughter to spill into joy.
Ordinary to bloom into extraordinary.
Tend to the garden of your becoming.
A kaleidoscope and rainbow filled with color and light.
Without reserve or permission.
Shine.
“just as you would not neglect seeds that you planted with hope that they will bear vegetables and fruits and flowers so you must attend to nourish the garden of your becoming.”― Jean Houston
“Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.” – Philibert Joseph Roux
“Sunday is the golden clasp that binds together the volume of the week.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Sunday slow.
Enter the flow.
Timing.
Do not wait too long.
Do not go too fast.
Find the rhythm and ease.
The music of a new day.
Sacred ground.
Dance.
Welcome all that comes your way.
Sunday and each day.
“Sometimes I have loved the peacefulness of an ordinary Sunday. It is like standing in a newly planted garden after a warm rain. You can feel the silent and invisible life.” – Marilynne Robinson
“Moment is a flower. Mindfulness is sipping the nectar of that flower.”― Amit Ray, Mindfulness Living in the Moment – Living in the Breath
“If you seek flaws,
you’ll find flaws,
if you seek beauty,
you’ll find that too”
― Donna Ashworth, I Wish I Knew: Poems to Soothe Your Soul & Strengthen Your Spirit
In the cracks, corners, and crevices.
Ordinary moments.
Available to all.
Beauty blooming inviting us in.
To be held.
To be found.
To be buoyed.
Seek beauty.
You will find it alongside the flawed.
Choose well.
“live your life flawed and beautiful.”
― Donna Ashworth, I Wish I Knew: Poems to Soothe Your Soul & Strengthen Your Spirit
“Where there are bees there are flowers, and wherever there are flowers there is new life and hope.”― Christy Lefteri, The Beekeeper of Aleppo
“To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee,
One clover, and a bee,
And revery.
The revery alone will do,
If bees are few.”
― Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
We are onto the next thing before the thing before us is barely started or over.
Passing by quickly in search of what’s next.
As if we could find it when we can’t see the bounty that is already before us.
In loss, we miss what we already had.
No do overs.
Live twice.
Once in the moment.
Again in the memory.
Be where you are right now fully.
In the imperfection, beauty, messiness and awe.
Reverence. Wonder. Revery.
“Mindfulness is simply being aware of what is happening right now without wishing it were different.” – James Baraz
“Awareness levels the playing field. We are all humans doing the best we can.”― Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
“And when the work of grieving is done,
The wound of loss will heal
And you will have learned
To wean your eyes
From that gap in the air
And be able to enter the hearth
In your soul where your loved one
Has awaited your return
All the time.”
― John O’Donohue, To Bless the Space Between Us: A Book of Blessings
Things fall apart.
Things come together.
Shifting and shaping.
Trust in the wilderness of unknowing.
Gratefulness in arriving of healing.
Changed and moving forward.
Beginning again, and again.
The rhythm of life.
Renewal, clarity, mystery.
The path we are on together in different places.
Shared journey, some ahead, some behind.
Same and different.
Never alone.
“This is the lesson of age—events pass, things change, trauma fades, good fortune rises, fades, rises again but different.”― Mary Oliver, Winter Hours: Prose, Prose Poems, and Poems
“The clouds may change shape and move, but the sky remains an infinite canvas of possibility.”― Shree Shambav
“The clouds don’t overthink; they just drift.”― Avijeet Das
Look up.
Gaze at the sky.
Deep breath.
Examine a blade of grass.
Beauty, wonder, color abound.
An art gallery.
Pull over.
Take time to drift each day.
To be swept up by awe.
Held in delight.
An infinite canvas of possibility.
“The sky is the ultimate art gallery just above us.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.”― Robert Louis Stevenson
“The best things are nearest: breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of God just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life’s plain common work as it comes certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things of life.”― Robert Louis Stevenson
May you look forward to each day with enthusiasm and zest.
Clean slate, fresh start.
Renewed by the sunrise, fresh air, flowers on fire.
Captured by ordinary moments.
Beauty in nature.
Flow in common work.
Daily joy not hinged on circumstances.
Equanimity and ease.
Gratitude, grace, gladness.
“Don’t pass it by–the immediate, the real, the only, the yours.”― Henry James
“Even when there are a thousand things to do, cherish these unrushed moments. Make room in your heart for them. There will be many mountains to climb, but always make time to find the pastures where you can rest.”― Morgan Harper Nichols, All Along You Were Blooming: Thoughts for Boundless Living
“Were we really meant to rush with all abandon toward some earthly hilltop finish line? Or was God telling us something in those whispers to “be still,” that all along, it was necessary, to slow down, trust, and heal.”― Morgan Harper Nichols, All Along You Were Blooming: Thoughts for Boundless Living
Give yourself permission and space to rest.
Margins to play, to laugh, to explore.
Unrushed, slow easy time.
Every single day, weave wonder, awe and delight throughout.
Grace to immerse into the beauty and unfolding.
Pastures to rest.
To have joy take hold, to remain.
“And in those moments where the sun is setting and the house is quiet and you are weary from the day, may you know that there is grace for you in that space, and no amount of heaviness or loneliness can take that away. And because of that grace, you are free to slow down. You are free to breathe and rest, no matter the things not sorted out. There might be some mystery here and there might be longing, wondering, and waiting. But there will also be boundless peace that goes beyond any understanding, running wild like a river through everything, no matter how heavy these moments feel. So rest easy, when everything is approaching. Tomorrow is surely coming, but in the hours in between, you are free to rest till then.”― Morgan Harper Nichols
“The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”― Henry David Thoreau
“If the day and the night are such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more elastic, more starry, more immortal- that is your success. All nature is your congratulation, and you have cause momentarily to bless yourself. The greatest gains and values are farthest from being appreciated. We easily come to doubt if they exist. We soon forget them. They are the highest reality. Perhaps the facts most astounding and most real are never communicated by man to man. The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible and indescribable as the tints of morning or evening. It is a little star-dust caught, a segment of the rainbow which I have clutched.”― Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Greet this day with joy.
Go first, don’t wait to see what this day brings.
A change in perspective.
A current of enthusiasm.
A smile and nod.
An opening and embrace.
What comes will come but it will be different if we are different.
Common hours transformed into extraordinary experiences.
What do you see?
“I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”― Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods
