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Ubiquitous Orange – a daily delight
You’re in my eyes. How else could I see light? You’re in my brain. This wild joy. If love did not live in matter, how would any place have any hold on anyone? Rumi Translator Coleman Barks Orange there. Orange everywhere. At our neighbors across the street,...
Mountain – staying steady
Mountains are steadfast but the mountain streams go by, go by, and yesterdays are like the rushing streams, they fly, they fly, and the great heroes, famous for a day, they die, they die. Hwang Chin-i Translated by Peter H. Lee With the recent autumn rains, the...
Autumn Surrender
In the letting go, openness seeps in. . .
Crows – harbingers of light
Night is passing, sun comes by dawn, Awaken now, beauty’s essence, heart of love. Hakim Omar Khayyám Translated by Nahid Angha, PhD The neighborhood crows regularly greet me as I open the front door in the morning. Occasionally, one will hop along the railing of the...
Giving
Giving upholds the world.
Shadow – an invitation to belonging
Daily inspirations to live and move with more awareness, reverence and gratitude for each morsel of life.
Hollyhock – holiness in the everyday
Hollyhock … a nod to “holy” or holiness.
Geranium – inspiring resilience
An everyday plant with peaceful resilience.
Ladybug – spark of joy in a grey world
Joy is ours to share and treasure as lovingly as it graces us in the precious journey of life.
Forest – sacred aliveness
One instant is eternity; Eternity is the now. When you see through this one instant, You see through the one who sees. Wu-Men English version by Stephen Mitchell As the seasonal cycle once again turned toward summer, the mountain forests held the quietude of winter. ...
Life Trail
The trail ahead is always unknown.
Light – generosity of being
Like a great starving beast My body is quivering Fixed On the scent Of Light. Hafiz Trans. by Daniel Ladinsky It seems fanciful that a new moon can appear to shimmer. Yet, about once every eighteen months, there is a radiant glow around a new moon. It occurs...
