MiraclesWhy, who makes much of a miracle?As to me I know of nothing else but miracles,Whether I walk the streets of Manhattan,Or dart my sight over the roofs of houses toward the sky,Or wade with naked feet along the beach just in the edge of the water,Or stand under trees in the woods,Or talk by…
Category: Musings & Meditations
Musings & Meditations – January 7 2021
“For last year’s words belong to last year’s language. And next year’s words await another voice. And to make an end is to make a beginning.” – T. S. Eliot
Musings & Meditations – December 31 2020
May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you’re wonderful, and don’t forget to make some art — write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next…
Musings & Meditations – December 24 2020
The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances. – Martha Washington
Musings & Meditations – December 17 2020
“Frodo: I wish the ring had never come to me, I wish none of this had happened. Gandalf: So do all who live to see such times but that is not for them to decide. All you have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to you.” – J. R….
Musings & Meditations – December 10 2020
“Wherever you are, at any moment, try and find something beautiful. A face, a line out of a poem, the clouds out of a window, some graffiti, a wind farm. Beauty cleans the mind.” – Matt Haig, Reasons To Stay Alive
Musings & Meditations – December 3 2020
When I Am Among the Trees When I am among the trees, especially the willows and the honey locust, equally the beech, the oaks and the pines, they give off such hints of gladness. I would almost say that they save me, and daily. I am so distant from the hope of myself, in which…
Musings & Meditations – November 26 2020
This is the power of gathering: it inspires us, delightfully, to be more hopeful, more joyful, more thoughtful: in a word, more alive. – Alice Waters
Musings & Meditations – November 19 2020
Look on each day that comes as a challenge, as a test of courage. The pain will come in waves, some days worse than others, for no apparent reason. Accept the pain. Little by little, you will find new strength, new vision, born of the very pain and loneliness which seem, at first, impossible to…
Musings & Meditations – November 12 2020
Hope is like the sun. If you only believe it when you see it you’ll never make it through the night. – Princess Leia, Star Wars
Musings & Meditations – November 5 2020
The beautiful thing about reading old books, is realising all your struggles, aren’t a ‘you’ thing but a ‘human’ thing. – Atticus Poetry
Musings & Meditations – October 29 2020
“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.” ― James Baldwin
Musings & Meditations – October 22 2020
You can not prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair. – Chinese Proverb
Musings & Meditations – October 15 2020
The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word ‘crisis’. One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger – but recognise the opportunity. – John F. Kennedy
Musings & Meditations – October 8, 2020
In order to love who you are, you cannot hate the experiences that shaped you. – Andrea Dykstra
Meditations & Musings – October 1, 2020
The secret is to never lose sight of the simple, everyday miracles in life;good food, literature, laughter, music, compelling conversation, nature, and art. Look for them in every day,and even when it feelslike your whole world is unravelling,you will never be too farfrom a needle and thread. – Beau Taplin • N e e d…
Musings & Meditations – September 24, 2020
“When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us…
Musings & Meditations – September 17 2020
Walking. I am listening to a deeper way. Suddenly all my ancestors are behind me. Be still, they say. Watch and listen. You are the result of the love of thousands. ― Linda Hogan
Musings & Meditations – September 10 2020
I’ll never know, and neither will you, of the life you don’t choose. We’ll only know that whatever that sister life was, it was important and beautiful and not ours. It was the ghost ship that didn’t carry us. There’s nothing to do but salute it from the shore. – Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things
Musings & Meditations – September 3 2020
Look for the ones who lean into your story. The ones who don’t shrink back from your pain. The ones who hear what you are not saying. These, are your people. Love them fiercely. -Liezel Graham
Musings & Meditations – August 27 2020
If you see something beautiful in someone, speak it! – Ruthie Lindsey
Meditations & Musings – August 20 2020
Dedicated to Australia’s Golden Girl of love & light.
Musings & Meditations – August 13 2020
“Rise and shine. I’ve always held such fondness for that sweet old phrase. As though we are all little Suns. As though we are all someone’s day.” – Beau Taplin // R i s e A n d S h i n e
Musings & Meditations – August 6 2020
At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can. – Frida Kahlo
Musings & Meditations – July 30 2020
Storms make trees take deeper roots. – Dolly Parton
Musings & Meditations – July 23 2020
People who need help sometimes look a lot like people who don’t need help. – Glennon Doyle
Musings & Meditations – July 16 2020
This is my wish for you: Comfort on difficult days, smiles when sadness intrudes, rainbows to follow the clouds, laughter to kiss your lips, sunsets to warm your heart, hugs when spirits sag, beauty for your eyes to see, friendships to brighten your being, faith so that you can believe, confidence for when you doubt,…
Musings & Meditations – July 9 2020
Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place. ― Kurt Vonnegut
Musings & Meditations – July 2 2020
And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s…
Musings & Meditations – June 25 2020
“When I lost my sight, Werner, people said I was brave. When my father left, people said I was brave. But it is not bravery; I have no choice. I wake up and live my life. Don’t you do the same?” – Marie-Laure LeBlanc, All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Musings & Meditations – June 18 2020
The Guest House This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor. Welcome and entertain them all! Even if they are a crowd of sorrows, who violently sweep your house empty of its furniture, still, treat each guest…
Musings & Meditations – June 11 2020
Barn’s burnt down / Now I can see the moon. ― Mizuta Masahide
Musings & Meditations – June 4 2020
This is dedicated to every human being who looks different, feels different and thinks differently. I see you. I feel you. I am you. Stay different. Our world needs the difference we will make. – Cleo Wade, Heart Talk
Musings & Meditations – June 2 2020
“Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.” ― Anne Lamott
Musings & Meditations – May 30 2020
“There are two ways to live: as if nothing is a miracle, or as if everything is a miracle.” – Albert Einstein
Musings & Meditations – May 28 2020
“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.” – The Little Prince, Antione De Saint-Exupéry
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