This blog often combines a beautiful piece of visual imagery alone with a short haiku that brings clarity. If I practice long enough and feel encouraged, I grow as a person. Several posts this morning in my email were about taking a breath and just pausing in the moment. Synchronicity plays a vital role in life. I only have to stop and realize it.
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What Ties Me to the Earth Is Unseen
This was a busy day. We head out for the evening shortly to spend time with friends. We ran around to get ourselves organized a good part of the day.
Mark Nepo wrote this lovely poem which is a reminder of the need to slow down and find the silent space of sabbath. The lake offers me a place to light down similar to the heron and find the quiet needed to rejuvenate the spirit. This quiet finds its way into my life without a full awareness sometimes. It just appears and I embrace it as it helps me weave my life together.
My heart was beating like a heron awakened
in the woods, no room to move. Tangled
and surprised by the noise of my mind,
I fluttered without grace to the center
of the lake which humans call silence.
I guess, if you would ask, peace
is no more than the underside
of tired wings resting on the lake
while the heart in its feathers
pounds softer and softer.
Chaff and Grain
This is a simple photo that I probably would pass each day without paying it a lot of mind. Combined with the wonderful poetry below it comes to life. I will never see a wheat field the same again.
It’s a Matter of Perspective
When I talk to students, this is something I try remind them of when they are struggling with how long things take. It is so much better to look ahead and be in the present moment.
Love never dies
This is a beautiful poem and picture to help focus the day.
what is there
in the Horizons
While reaching
Sun showers golden dust
Sky displays it’s rainbow butterflys
Soil mounts up heads to view graceful vista
This eternal love every day takes brith significantly – Love never dies
7 Logics for Peaceful Living! – Pause
These are seven great points to having a peaceful life.
dog’s life
Sometimes it feels this way. Sometimes it does not. It is a nice little poem to begin the day with.
Steady my harried pace
What a great poem David posted. Take a moment and read it slowly.
Wilferd Arlan Peterson (1900–95) was born in Whitehall, Michigan and lived most of his life in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He was an American author who wrote for This Week magazine (a national Sunday supplement in newspapers distributed to 13,000,000 readers). For twenty-five years, he wrote a monthly column for Science of Mind magazine. He published nine books starting in 1949 with The Art of Getting Along: Inspiration for Triumphant Daily Living.” Peterson was regarded as “one of the best loved American writers of the 20th century, renowned for his inspirational wisdom and aphoristic wit” by the Independent Publishers Group. His influences include Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau and Abraham Lincoln, among many others. His contemporaries include Norman Vincent Peale and Dale Carnegie, and current writers and philosophers such as Jack Canfield and Brian Tracy have referred to Peterson’s works. He was married to Ruth Irene Rector Peterson (1921-79)…
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God of Science
There is a need to be mindful and fully present in my use of technology. It is a tool and I need to consider the good and harm that can result from the use of this particular tool in this context. This poem is an excellent reminder of this for me.
What has science brought us:
better ways to live or quicker
ways to kill? Have we traded
technology for faith and
compassion? Is God found in a
test-tube or bomb?
Be careful what you worship.
There is but one Source, that
which is omnipotent, shows us
that good used for evil
purposes becomes the
sword of destruction.
Say “no” to thinly disguised
technology that harms under
the guise of helping. Let
the lesson of the bees remind
us if our sick and dying
loved ones are not enough.
Logan’s Pass
Logan’s Pass includes the Going to the Sun Road in Glacier National Park. When I looked, the view was spectacular and breathtaking. The park was named for the many glaciers that are part of the landscape and so visible through Logan’s Pass. The glaciers are slowly receding and some estimates suggest they may be gone by mid-Century.
Looking straight across from the road, you can see the ice and snow almost at eye level and further out is Jackson Glacier. The road is dotted with short barriers and are not very wide.
The Montana sky is a constant backdrop for the mountains, the ice and snow, and the green in the foreground.
A person constantly feels like they are on the top of the world here. People refer to Glacier National Park as the Crown of the Continent and closeness to the tops of the mountains is a reason. Waterfalls are often in view.
Here, there are no real barriers at the edge of the road.
Kathy took this picture over her shoulder. It shows the switchbacks and curves in the road.
I enjoy the contrast provided by the grey granite and the white snow and ice. There is stability and, at the same time, instability visible in nature. The granite looks like it forms a stairway to the top of the world.
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