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Today’s Quote
1112. To me, every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle. Walt Whitman
Everything that slows us down
and forces patience,
everything that sets us back into
the slow circles of nature, is a help.
~May Sarton
Tonight
Tonight I’m flying low and I’m
not saying a word
I’m letting all the voodoos of ambition sleep.
The world goes on as it must,
the bees in the garden rumbling a little,
the fish leaping, the gnats getting eaten.
And so forth.
But I’m taking the evening off.
Quiet as a feather.
I hardly move though really I’m traveling
a terrific distance.
Stillness.
One of the doors
into the temple.
~Edited and adapted poem
by Mary Oliver
Well, kiddies, I am taking the night off. My aging, aching back in killing me as I’ve been working too hard for too many days in the gardens. I pray you have a lovely evening. I shall be back tomorrow. Love, Natalie
He says, “Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.” ~Psalm 46: 10 ✝
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Be a reflection…
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Time is…
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There comes…
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6:15am, Maltepe, Istanbul
the calls
of the gulls
as they fly
past the balcony
another type
of morning prayer
Rambling
1111. Is there something we have forgotten? Some precious thing we have lost, wandering in strange lands? ~Arna Bontemps
In the middle of the journey of our life
I came to myself within a dark wood
where the straight way was lost.
~Dante Alighieri
Stand still. The trees ahead and bushes beside you
Are not lost. Wherever you are is called Here,
And you must treat it as a powerful stranger,
Must ask permission to know it and be known.
The forest breathes. Listen. It answers,
I have made this place around you.
If you leave it, you may come back again, saying Here.
No two trees are the same to Raven.
No two branches are the same to Wren.
If what a tree or a bush does is lost on you,
You are surely lost. Stand still. The forest knows
Where you are. You must let it find you.
~David Wagoner
“…For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.” ~Luke 19:10 ✝
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