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Happy Easter!
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Month: March 2024
Dynamic earth
Let the worries be quietened
let the gladness be celebrated
let every dream inside me
find its path and dance purposefully
joyfully, toward this worldI have a story I have never told:
once, when I was dreaming
I looked up at the firmament
and saw the vastness and knew
I was a creation made of stardustI am still a creation made of stardust
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Sunlight
sunlight unfurls me
as surely as flowers lift
their faces to it
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A gilded change of name
for nothing is set in stone forever –
as epochs come and go art’s records too
are crowned with gilded new nomenclature
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Revisiting: Entranced by the light
One of the joys of keeping a journal is, of course, ‘flipping through the pages’ and bringing to mind people, things, places and experiences that made an impression. Today I was delighted to revisit Entranced by the light … first published here on 22nd May 2021
Time and time again, I am moved and entranced by the movement of tide and cloud and light – sometimes stormy, bracing and energising; sometimes calm and colourful and wide inside 😊
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Connections
Community is a place where the connections felt in our hearts make themselves known in the bonds between people, and where the tuggings and pullings of those bonds keep opening our hearts
Parker J Palmer
Scientists tell us that all living things make connections with other life. Trees, for example, by way of roots. Humans, by way of hearts.
We’re all aware of the sometimes unwanted complexity of connections that involve, for humans anyway, ‘tuggings and pullings of those bonds,’ albeit that they ‘keep opening our hearts.’
But perhaps it’s the very complexity of lives lived beyond the edges of our own ego that really brings us to life, widens our horizons, shows us our place in what poet Mary Oliver called ‘the family of things’ – and stretches our hearts, souls, minds and bodies exactly where they need to be stretched, over and over and over again.
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To re-become
Your nature is not stasis
It is movement
The Earth does not look at itself and say,
“I am perfect, I am done,”
Nature’s objective is not to complete
But to re-become
Again, and againBrianna Wiest
Salt Water
How many times in my life have I become something or someone new and – I hope you’re wondering – have you?
My morning meditation is followed by contemplation – a review of where I’ve been, and a ‘sitting with’ imaginings about where I might be going.
Who and where I’ve been at the multiplicity of different stages in my life astonishes and moves me, and I open my senses anew, ready and willing and grateful to ‘re-become’ – and to be surprised, again.
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