:: making your soul grow ::
" To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it." {Kurt Vonnegut} perusing...
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- Jul 22
:: delights of the poet... ::
" The delights of the poet as I jotted them down turned out to be light, solitude, the natural world, love, time, creation itself." ...
- Jul 16
:: how fine it is... ::
" God, rest in my heart and fortify me, take away my hunger for answers, let hopes play upon my body." {Mary Oliver} how fine it is...
- Jul 14
:: in a joy which illumines ::
" Her home was always witch-tales and words, stories into which she could escape... it was the soft quiet of the stacks and the scratch...
- Jul 6
:: softly... ::
" Each of us is an artist of our days; the greater our integrity, the more original & creative our time will become." {John O'Donahue}...
- Jun 22
:: begin the song... ::
" Begin the song exactly where you are, Remain within the world of which you're made. Call nothing common in earth or air, Accept it and...
- Jun 16
:: I love to sit in silence ::
" I love to sit in silence when the day is almost done and see the distant hill the paint the glow of the sun... I love to sit in...
- Jun 12
:: the awakening hour ::
" The morning, which is the most memorable season of the day, is the awakening hour. Then there is least somnolence in us; and for an...
- Jun 8
:: to restore & hush... ::
" The deep need to restore & hush my weary, distracted mind..." {Sarah Clarkson} Click-clack one stitch at a time. A centering,...
- Jun 4
:: into the quiet... ::
"...into the quiet of this page, this moment, this light." seeking joy finding peace feeling settled loving the light gathering the...
- May 21
:: resting ::
I always forget how important the empty days are. How important it may be sometimes not to expect to produce anything, even a few lines...
- May 19
:: walking in this world ::
" There is a place where words are born on silence, a place where the whispers of the heart arise." {Rumi} As long as I can remember, I...
- May 13
:: a charm of stillness ::
" A charm of stillness in which something gathers..." Between the pages a silence gathers. The world finds pause, the ticking of the...
- May 7
:: the capacity for delight ::
" The quality of life is in proportion, always, to the capacity for delight. The capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention." ...
- May 6
:: to go aside, to become still ::
" A quiet movement : the reaction against the breathless pace of our computer-driven world... a more meditative, involved approach to our...
- Apr 28
:: word gathering ~ stillness ::
" Let silence take you to the core of life " {Rumi} Hello, dear readers, I've been happily absorbed in organizing my extensive word...
- Apr 13
:: gently falling rain.... ::
" The rain fell gently, persistently, making a little chuckling and burbling noise in the gutters. Edward, leaning out of the window,...
- Dec 4, 2021
:: November days... ::
" The hush comes with the deepening of autumn; but it comes gradually. Our ears are attuned to it, day by quieter day. But even now...
- Nov 21, 2021
:: it was November... ::
" It was November - the month of crimson sunsets, parting birds, deep, sad hymns of the sea, passionate wind songs in the pines." {L.M....
- Sep 1, 2021
:: August days... ::
" ... she experienced each year this lifting of the spirits as August slipped away, off the calendar, and one could stop pretending that...
nestled in quietude